In between all the outdoor activities in conjunction with this weekend Fall Festival, you can settle in to Shireman Auditorium at Girard High School for an hour of story telling and original music with the play, “Tell Us A Good Lie and Other Small-Town Tales.” The original play features the stories and recollections of Clarence “Jack” Miles, a former instructor in the industrial arts program at Pittsburg State University. Before Miles died in February, his daughter Janis Saket, the author and director of the play, spent an afternoon listening to her dad's stories and capturing them on tape for family posterity. “I take the play directly from the book I wrote about my dad,” Saket said. “These are all stories that, in the last year of his life, he and my uncle John were in the hospital room telling these stories I'd never heard before. “They're all about my family and dad said they were all true. I thought this was quite a piece of history for our family.” All the stories center around Jack Miles growing up in the Chetopa area. The title story, 'Tell Us A Good Lie,' relates the tale of Jeb, the town marshal and a notorious teller of tall tales. Some of the towns-folk stop him one day and ask him for a good lie. He tells the folks he can't stop because he has to find the undertaker because one of their neighbors was just killed in an accident. Knowing the marshal's penchant for not being very sensitive, the men decide to take it upo ...
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In between all the outdoor activities in conjunction with this weekend Fall Festival, you can settle in to Shireman Auditorium at Girard High School for an hour of story telling and original music with the play, “Tell Us A Good Lie and Other Small-Town Tales.” The original play features the stories and recollections of Clarence “Jack” Miles, a former instructor in the industrial arts program at Pittsburg State University. Before Miles died in February, his daughter Janis Saket, the author and director of the play, spent an afternoon listening to her dad's stories and capturing them on tape for family posterity. “I take the play directly from the book I wrote about my dad,” Saket said. “These are all stories that, in the last year of his life, he and my uncle John were in the hospital room telling these stories I'd never heard before. “They're all about my family and dad said they were all true. I thought this was quite a piece of history for our family.” All the stories center around Jack Miles growing up in the Chetopa area. The title story, 'Tell Us A Good Lie,' relates the tale of Jeb, the town marshal and a notorious teller of tall tales. Some of the towns-folk stop him one day and ask him for a good lie. He tells the folks he can't stop because he has to find the undertaker because one of their neighbors was just killed in an accident. Knowing the marshal's penchant for not being very sensitive, the men decide to take it upo ...