Act 3 - Sam Craig Flashcards
JOE: Good afternoon, good afternoon. Let me see now. Do i know you?
I’m Sam Craig.
STAGE MANAGER: And here comes a Grover’s Corners boy that left to go out West.
Good afternoon, Joe Stoddard.
JOE: Gracious sakes alive! Of all people! I shoulda knowed you’d be back for the funeral. You’ve been away a long time, Sam.
Yes, I’ve been away twelve years. I’m in business out in Buffalo now, Joe. But I was in the east when i got news of my cousin’s death, so I thought I’d combine things a little and come and see the old home. You look well.
JOE: Yes, yes, can’t complain. Very sad, our journey today, samuel.
Yes.
JOE: They’ll be here in a few minutes now. I had to come here early today- my son’s supervisin at the home.
Old Farmer McCarty… I used to do chores for him after school. He had the lumbago.
Yes, we brought Farmer McCarty here a number of years ago now.
Why, this is my Aunt Julia… I’d forgotten that she’d… Of course, of course.
JOE: Yes, Doc Gibbs lost his wife two-three years ago… About this time. Ans today’s another pretty bad blow for him too.
That’s my sister Carey’s boy, Sam… Sam Craig.
SIMON: I’m always uncomfortable when they’re around.
MRS. GIBBS: Simon.
Do they choose their own verses much, Joe?
JOE: No, not usual. Mostly the bereaved pick-a-verse.
Doesn’t sound like Aunt Julia. There aren’t many of those Hersey sisters left now. Let me see: where are… I wanted to look at my father’s and mother’s…
JOE: Over there, avenue F…
He was organist at church, wasn’t he? Hm, drank a lot, we used to say.
JOE: Nobody was supposed to know about it. He’d seen a peck of trouble. Took his own life, you know?
Oh, did he?
JOE: Hung himself in the attic…it ain’t much of a verse, exactly.
Why, it’s just some notes of music- what is it?
JOE: Oh, I wouldn’t know. It was written up in the Boston papers at the time.
Joe, what did she die of?
JOE: Who?
My cousin.
Oh, you don’t know? … There’s a little boy bout four years old.
The grave’s going to be pver there?
