Today I am pleased to share some news I know will most definitely please the many faithful followers of the ever-popular Bangor Y-Players.

Director Pam Martin e-mailed that she has reworked the format of the show, returning it to its original style as a full production featuring live action.

Readers may recall that this year’s Y-Players presentation, “Hooray for Hollywood,” was a new, two-act show, with the first part consisting of a video presentation and the second act being live action.

Well, Pam frankly admits, the video part fell flat on its face.

She wrote that she has learned the hard way that her audiences “love the old way of doing the show, with live action, costume changes, forgetting lines, chuckling at mistakes made, and just having a good old time with the girls.”

Pam apologizes to her audience “for trying to get with the times, and not stay with what works.”

“I have thrown out the video,” she wrote, “and we are doing all the skits live,” complete with those costume changes, live singing “and comedy galore.”

The final productions, all live, will be presented at 2 p.m. Tuesday, May 27; 7 p.m. Friday, May 30; and 2 p.m. Sunday, June 1, at the Bangor Y on Second Street.

Admission is by donation, and all proceeds benefit Bangor Y programs.

For more information about this event, call the Bangor Y at 941-2808.

I applaud Pam and the Y-Players for their exemplary effort in accommodating the wishes of their audience.

Break a leg, ladies!

Woodlawn Museum executive director Joshua Torrance invites you to a free beginners croquet lesson from 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. today at Woodlawn, Route 172 in Ellsworth.

Rhonda Brophy, curator of the Patten Lumbermen’s Museum, announces it is opening for its 45th season 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday, May 26, at 61 Shin Pond Road in Patten.

The museum will then be open 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays through June 29, and 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Tuesday through Sunday, July 1-Oct. 12.

Brophy added that the Patten Lumbermen’s Museum annual Father’s Day garage sale is June 13-15; its Thursday evening at the museum, with Patten historians Don Campbell and Bud Blumenstock, will be from 4 to 8 p.m. each Thursday in July and August, and that the Patten Lumbermen’s Museum bean-hole bean dinner and celebration is 11 am. to 4 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 9, in conjunction with Patten Pioneer Days.

For more information, call the museum at 528-2650, or visit www.lumbermensmuseum.org.

Kristina Therrien of the Pine Tree Society wrote that the 12th annual Paddle for Pine Tree Camp “is right around the corner, and we are hoping for some more paddlers.”

The 2008 Paddle for Pine Tree Camp features two trips on the Kennebec River.

The first is “a peaceful, sunset paddle” Friday, June 6, “from Bingham to Solon, followed by a pizza party,” Therrien wrote.

The second is “an exciting morning paddle” Saturday, June 7, “from Solon to North Anson, followed by a celebratory barbecue.”

She added that shuttle services will be available at both sites; Maine Guides and volunteers will escort both trips, which are approximately 61/2 miles long and take about 21/2 hours to complete; and that paddle sites are accessible and appropriate for paddlers of all skill levels.

Paddlers raise money by collecting pledges per mile or by contributions, and all proceeds benefit PTC, a summer camp in Rome for Maine children and young adults with disabilities.

To register, or receive more information, visit www.pinetreesociety.org, call 443-3341, or e-mail infor@pinetreesociety.org.

Perhaps this holiday weekend, people heading our way can help members of the Bangor High School Class of 1958 reunion committee find some of their missing classmates.

The committee has done pretty well locating many members of that large class, but Sandy Page of Hampden reports there are still those the committee cannot track down.

BHS ’58 is seeking current addresses for Jean Anderson Spragg, Inverno Brown Dorsky, Patricia Collins, Beverly Curtis, Wayne Curtis, Sharon Drake, Patricia Farrell Washburn, Joy Fisher, Linda Fogg, Lucille Gilbert O’Brien and Harold Grant.

Also missing from the class list are Charles Lewis Hill, George Hillman, Marlene Kaufman, Patricia Lothrop O’Neal, Rita MacPherson, Adrian Parker, Sandra Sargent Davis, Elizabeth Rideout Armstrong, Roger Stearns, Evelyn Sumner, Robert Terrill and Lawrence Thompson.

Anyone with information about these folks is asked to either call Page at 862-3451 or e-mail sandyp62@msn.com.

Joni Averill, Bangor Daily News, P.O. Box 1329, Bangor 04402; javerill@bangordailynews.net; 990-8288.