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About the Musical Ordinary lives in extraordinary times. It's January 2020 in an ordinary small, West Virginia town like so many towns across the nation. A place where everyone knows everybody's business...and can recite their neighbor's transgressions back for generations. A town that survives and even thrives despite natural disasters and man-made curses because when things are at their worst, they are at their best. A town that cherishes its children, land, worship, and of course its sports. A place where gossip moves faster than a river at flood, no hurt is ever forgiven, and politics is distinctly personal! Suddenly, everyone's talking about a new virus on the other side of the earth, the other side of the country, then the state, and then on Easter Sunday, in April 2020, it arrives in their town. Divided, scared, and angry, they wonder: Is this a hoax, will it kill them all, how can they protect their families? As the long days and months of 2020, 2021, and 2022 drag on, the community creates ways to celebrate, laugh, work, love, tend their sick, and mourn terrible losses. Through laughter and tears they forgive and protect what they love most, the heart and soul of an extraordinary town.

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Vana Nespor is an author, academic leader, and playwright who builds community through creating and directing dramas and musical productions based on real stories. During the daytime, she created and implemented degree programs designed for adultwomen returning to college. At night, she directed more than 70 productions in West Virginia, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, Virginia, Massachusetts, and Jakarta, Indonesia. When a community theater needed an outdoor musical, she wrote McNeill's Rangers with composerJohn Hawkins, based on the local Civil War heroes of Hardy County, West Virginia. As a gift to her colleagues at Robert Morris University in Pittsburgh, she wrote the music and lyrics to Honor and the Man, based on the life of Robert Morris, the man who bankrolled theRevolutionary War and died in disgrace.In 2021 she was asked to write something powerful for the Landes Arts Center of Grant County West Virginia. She gathered stories of the community's struggles during Covid and with four talented composers, created These Months of Our Lives. Along the way, she earned four masters and a doctorate and has finally settled in western Massachusetts with her husband and two cats. James is a classically trained, master teacher-pianist, and extraordinary contemporary composer. He wrote the music for seven of the songs and scored the entire musical translating the audio recordings by other musicians into the print music contained in this book. Joe is a gifted and versatile country musician, singer, and songwriter. He created the music for seven of the songs as well as sang on stage andaccompanied the entire first production in April 2021 on guitar, mandolin, and banjo.

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