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ArtBarn presents Sara De Luca's Dancing the Cows Home
The author, Sara Hellerud De Luca, taken in 1950 in the Hellerud family barn. Special Photo.

This June, St. Croix ArtBarn Theatre will present on stage Sara DeLuca's award winning childhood memoir, Dancing the Cows Home.

Revisit DeLuca's tender and candid memories of life growing up on a Polk County dairy farm in the 1940s and '50s.

First brought to the stage in 1998 for the Wisconsin Sesquicentennial, ArtBarn is currently restaging the popular play at two locations.

In celebration of Minnesota's 150th birthday, the play will be presented at the Gammelgarden Museum, Scandia, Minn., Friday through Sunday, June 20-22. Dinner begins at 5:30 p.m. with curtain at 7 p.m. Tickets are also available for the play only. Reservations are required by June 16.

For menu information and tickets call (651) 433-5053 or visit www.gammelgardenmuseum.org.

The following week, Wednesday through Saturday, June 25-28, 7:30 p.m., the popular production will travel to Osceola where it will be performed in ArtBarn's 104-year old renovated dairy barn.

Call (715) 294-2787 or visit www.stcroixartbarn.com.ArtBarn is located at 1040 Oak Ridge Dr., one block east of Wisconsin State Highway 35, next to the Osceola middle and high schools.

De Luca, who now resides in Georgia, is scheduled to be at all performances; her granddaughter and daughter-in-law are cast in the current production.

The intergenerational cast includes: Tatsu Anderson, Hazle Cain-Johnson, Clarissa Cleven, Forrest Cleven, Natalie Dietrich, Whitney Happle, Micah Johnson, Mitch Kieffer, Emily Raffesberger, Osceola; Emma Drury, Kris Drury, Danette Roberts, Leigha Roberts, Dresser; Amy Foss, Scott Holloway, Marine on St. Croix; Jack Christenson, New Richmond; Laura Rassier, Tom Foss, Emma Kravig, St. Croix Falls; and Anna Lindell, Julia Lindell, Scandia.

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This shoudldbe a fun play to see. The Art Barn consistenly puts on amazing performances.

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