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Ashland New Plays Festival features a play about here: 'Ashland'

A statue on the left side of the photo features drinking fountains at the bottom, and a pioneer-era man on top looking into the distance. On the right side is a small booth painted mustard and blue. Lettering on the awnings of the booth say "information"
The Ashland Plaza, including the information booth and the Pioneer Mike statue
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Roman Battaglia
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October is many things to many people, but in Ashland it is always the month of the flagship event of the Ashland New Plays Festival: a weekend full of readings of new plays.

This year's ANPF gathering, October 19-22, features three plays instead of the usual four, but one in particular grabs the attention: it is called "Ashland." It is the work of Isabel Estelle, who grew up in Ashland but now lives in Minnesota. Life and death and aid in dying and smoke and fire are all subjects in the play.

ANPF Executive Director Jackie Apodaca joins us for a pre-festival visit.

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