‘Mother Hicks’ on GHS stage

The Gorham High School drama program will present scenes from Suzan Zeder’s “Mother Hicks” with two performances at the school next week.

“‘Mother Hicks’ weaves together the story of three outsiders a foundling girl known only as Girl; a deaf boy, eloquent in the language of his silence; and an eccentric recluse, Mother Hicks, who is suspected of being a witch,” said Eileen Avery, director. “The tale, told with poetry and sign language, chronicles the journeys of these three to find themselves, and each other, in a troubled time.”

Performances are in the McCormack Performing Arts Center at Gorham High School, 41 Morrill Ave., on Friday, Feb. 14, and Saturday, Feb. 15, at 7:30 p.m. Tickets, $6 and $4 for students/senior citizens, will be sold at the door.

Avery said the show is Gorham High School’s entry for the Maine Principals’ Association One Act Drama Competition. Gorham will be competing at Marshwood High School on March 7 and 8.

Ray’s book remembers Gorham

A new book, “Gorham, Bridgton and Beyond: The Personal Maine Narrative of Jonathan M. Ray,” is now available at Amazon.com.

Ray, who now lives in Lady Lake, Fla., takes the reader back to the 1950s and 1960s in Gorham and then later to Bridgton. The book includes genealogical information about the Ray and Backman families.

Arts alliance meeting

The Gorham Arts Alliance will meet at 5 p.m. on Tuesday, Feb. 25, at Baxter Memorial Library, 71 South St.

For more information about the alliance and its programs, visit www.gorhamartsalliance.org or call 318-0584.

Kerwin on dean’s list

Kelsie Ann Kerwin of Gorham has been named to the dean’s list for the fall semester at James Madison University in Harrisburg, Va. Kerwin graduated from Gorham High School in 2011.

Historians to meet

The Gorham Historical Society will meet at 7 p.m. on Monday, Feb. 10, at Gorham Savings Bank Operations Center, Gray Road (Route 202).

Historic railroad date

According to the Gorham Historical Society, the first train on the York and Cumberland Railroad reached Gorham 163 years ago on Feb. 5, 1851. The rail line was later known as the Portland and Rochester Railroad.

U.S. taxpayer debt

The Bureau of the Fiscal Service reported on Jan. 30 that the U.S. public debt was $17,249,265,796,405.