[MassHistPres] a Christmas preservation fable

[Dennis De Witt]

There is an unanticipated preservation message in one of season's old standby events this year.  

Christmas Revels, which often is all but plotless, has a slight framing story this year involving saving an historic british manor house, and the spirits that dwell therein, from being sold to pay the taxes, with the house being demolished for a new road -- all in the name of, "You can't stop 'progress'."  After the usual morris dancing, singing (partly with the audience, many of who have been coming for decades), mummery (with a quite remarkable dragon eventually slain by a City gent-St. George's tightly furled brolly), etc., the living 1920s incumbent is, at last, convinced that the mansion and estate (and presumably the spirits) should become a tourist attraction.  In almost the last spoken plot line, it is suggested that it all might be given to the National Trust.

Anyone for a preservationist rewrite of the Nutcracker involving an historic district?

Cheers

Dennis De Witt