Not all of my choices were foolish. It was late fall and trout season was closed, so I was limited in the things I could do. When I got bored I thought of things that could make me money. I decided to search the path from the high school to the down­town area and look in the ditch along the path to pick up pop bottles. In those days you could get 2 cents per bottle and usually one trip on this path gave me at least 50 pop bottles. It doesn't seem much now, but a dollar was a big deal to me back then. I started on main street and worked towards the high school. The pop bottle spelunking was going quite well and I had to go home quickly to get a bag because there were just too many to carry. The ditch was a veritable gold mine this day and I was weighed down heavily with at least 60 pop bottles by the end of my journey. I was already thinking about what I was going to spend my " huge" pay day on. I had the bag hung over my shoulder and was walk­ing back to the grocery store to cash in my treasure and I saw two high school stu­dents dressed really oddly walking towards the high school. Being the curious type, I asked what was up with the costumes. The two girls said they were going to be in a play called " Brigadoon" at the high school later that night, and they were heading there to do their final dress rehearsal. They asked me if I wanted to come watch them practice their lines. I im­mediately said " no"; I thought it wasn't

manly enough for me to be interested in. I was also in a hurry to cash in my bot­tles and get some candy or a new fishing lure. I met four more of the cast on the way to the store. They were also walking to the high school and were decked out in costumes. These were guys, and it really looked like they were getting into their parts. They were practicing their lines as they walked. I was on a mission, so I went onward to the grocery store. I cashed in my grand total of 70 pop bottles and asked the clerk at the store what the play was about. She gave me the short version of the play. It was about a magical place. It was about going back in time to a simpler way of life. The place only appeared once every 100 years. The name of the play was " Brigadoon." 37