I admit, I’m obsessed with Whole Foods. Normally I avoid grocery stores because they figure in a lifestyle that engages in cooking, which is not something I do. Some people can take random ingredients and create something edible. I generally end up with something that catches fire. Thus my obsession with Whole Foods would seem a bit odd. Unless you’ve been to a Whole Foods, and that you might start to understand why I travel to the one in White Plains.

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In the end there wasn’t the mad crowd of political flunkies who staged what would have been a spectacular tribute to Lucille Lortell in a remash of the West Side Story. The theatrics, for once appropriate, weren’t there, and instead a small troupe of political flunkies arrived at the White Barn property to add another milestone to a long series of events that started in 1999.

Despite the save cranbury web site, the saga of the Lortell foundation’s decision to interpret Lortell’s last will as a flexible document to keep the white barn theater going, but not at the physical white barn theater property is a murky one, though not unusual. Foundations it seems, have become a vehicle for leveraging many things, and not necessarily what the benefactor wanted. The NY Times recently reported;

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For about $200,000 Fairfield DPW workers and an outside construction firm managed to assemble the political will and funds to restore a Revolutionary war era tavern. From the Connecticut Post:

The town is nearly finished restoring a historic structure where George Washington slept in October 1789 during his tour of colonies invaded and torched by the British.The original Sun Tavern on Town Green didn’t survive the British invasion of Fairfield in 1779, but Samuel Penfield, a prominent Revolutionary War-era resident, rebuilt the tavern in 1784.

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