Holliston Happenings: Week of October 19, 2020

Who can resist the story of Little Women? Set against the backdrop of the Civil War, four girls endure privations because of their family’s anti-abolitionist stance. With their father bravely off fighting, they must do without much hristmas, but their mother, Marmee, played ably by Olivia Beaudet, challenges them to give up their wonderful Christmas breakfast and bring it to the starving Hummel family who have no warm shelter or food. The four “little women,” however, soon show themselves to be less than saintly.

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