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This is the love story of Ethel and Norman Thayer, who are returning to their summer home on Golden Pond for the forty-eighth year. He is a retired professor, nearing eighty, with heart palpitations and a failing memory- but still as tart-tongued, observant and eager for life as ever. Ethel, ten years younger, and the perfect foil for him, delights in all the small things that enrich their long life together. They are visited by their divorced, middle-aged daughter and her dentist fiancé, who go off to Europe, leaving his teenage son behind. The boy quickly becomes the "grandchild" they have longed for, and as Norman revels in taking him fishing and thrusting good books at him, he also learns some lessons about modern teenage awareness and slang. In the end, as the summer wanes, so does their brief idyll, and in the final, deeply moving moments of the play, they are brought even closer together by the incidence of a mild heart attack. Perhaps, another summer on Golden Pond still awaits. (Little Theatre on the Square). Lunch will be at Niemerg’s Steakhouse.
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