Eastland Telegram

T.J. Cummings Cathy Roberts and Amy O’Brien Glenn planting in the Community Garden before the next rain hits. Photo by Sheila Hickox

Unless you live in a cave, you know all about what’s happened the past year. If you don’t live in a cave, I bet that finding a nice, quiet cave with no Wi-Fi and getting away from all the nonsense sounds pretty good these days.

Expertly written and acted, A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum has been ransacked as an eye-catcher for many projects, presentations, and programs over the years. Based on the book and Broadway play, the 1960s movie awakened in humankind that funny things do happen along the way, sometimes even en route to church. Much has been written about such things, but two minor “foulups” some three decades apart probably remained in the “shallows of the unknown,” except as may have been shared among friends by word of mouth. Both would have caused the late Rev. Max Copeland--for 42 years pastor of Marble Falls First Baptist Church--to smile….