(On the cover picture, Drucilla Ray portrays Dolly Williams, founder of world famous Camp Monterey).

Act One featured Opless and Kay Walker playing the roles of Finis Harris Sr., and Margaret Harris. Their three sons were of fighting age when the United States entered World War II.

Mr. and Mrs. Harris gave  a sad recollection as two of the three son had nearly made it through the war, only to be killed in action mere months before armistice was declared. The third son, who had been stationed in the states the whole time, was the only surviving son.

After the play on Sunday afternoon, Op Walker related to one person how one of the granddaughters  had attended the Friday night performance, and how much more of a moving experience that had made the play.  (There were few dry eyes on Sunday afternoon as well).

Act Two featured a Monterey woman, Mrs. H.E. Cannon who was played by Julie Bohannon. She described tales from around Monterey and some of its key characters.

One of the characters was that young Opless Walker lad, who would come by at times and help her do chores.  Ms. Cannon was fearful of Opless's mother, however, and one time when her husband had Op doing some chores on the roof, she had to shoo him off of there so Op's mother wouldn't see him.

Act Three features Mrs. Dolly Williams, founder of Camp Monterey, who was played by Drucilla Ray.  Ms. Williams was raised in a family (originally from Cookeville) where the mother and father taught their children that they could do almost anything that they set their minds to.

When Dolly started attending Vanderbilt University, Vanderbilt had no tennis team.  So Dolly's mother decided to help Vanderbilt start their first tennis team, and Ms. Williams turned out to be one of the first Vanderbilt Tennis Champions.

Dolly then started Camp Monterey using the help of the German soldier prisoners interned outside of Crossville (where the 4H facility is now), and the camp has entertained young ladies from around the world ever since. (Rumor has it that Reese Witherspoon may have attended there when she was a teenager).

Several of the founding family members of Camp Monterey were present at the Sunday afternoon play and expressed their appreciation and gratitude at the superlative performance. They said it brought back memories.

Act Four was about the colorful owner of the Monterey Hardware Store, "Chigger" Schon, played by Dale Bohannon.  (Mr. Bohannon could take this role on the road--it was just hilarious).

"Chigger" was one of those characters that  apparently presented a strong draw to people who liked to play practical jokes. And unfortunately for "Chigger,"  he apparently had the tendency to never see the joke coming and, henceforth, would  walk straight into the trap--time and time again.

One time, he got a series of annoying phone calls where someone kept asking for the wrong name.   After several of these annoying calls, Chigger began to get a little vexed and started telling this pesky caller to leave him alone -- apparently resorting to some colorful explanations of how to do this (and maybe some other parts of the anatomy).

What "Chigger" did not know was that the local banker, who happened, at the time, to have a loud-speaker on the outside of his bank (the banker liked to play Christmas music for the community during the holiday season), had, in fact, rigged up the speaker to the phone line and every word "Chigger" bellowed to this annoying caller  was being amplified--loudly--all over Monterey, Tennessee.

Apparently, everyone in Monterey thought this was rather amusing, with, perhaps, the exception of "Chigger," who found out about it later.

The dinner portion of the dinner theatre had been prepared by Grade A, and included butternut squash soup, pork loin, oven roasted vegetables, and pumpkin cheese cake.

Both Friday night and Sunday afternoon performances were sold out.  A perfect package, it was great food and a great performance.