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36.1 Sunken Harbor: The Strawberry Festival "Cistern Cissy"

Fireside Mystery Theatre

Fireside Mystery Theatre

Drama, Arts, Fiction, Performing Arts

4.5626 Ratings

🗓️ 21 May 2018

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

A pitiful strawberry harvest could spell trouble for small-town Sunken Harbor’s most popular, beloved, and relied-upon summer festival.

"Cistern Cissy" is the first of a four-part saga that is **Sunken Harbor: The Strawberry Festival**.

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Featured in this episode:
Ali Silva as Mayor Diana Belfair and Cissy
James Rieser as Mr. Sheldon
Alain Laforest as Simon Perdido
Eirik Davey-Gislason as Sheriff Ulster
Mary Murphy as Lynne Belfair and Annie
David Linton as Derek Hobney
Michael Pate as The One Who Asks
Gustavo Rodriguez as The One Who Tells

Radio play by Silbin Sandovar
Directed by Holly Payne-Strange

Musical score improvised by Nico Sleator
Sound Effects Designer and Engineer: Greg Russ
Technical Director at The Slipper Room: Johnny Goddard
Production Coordinator: Brontis Shane Orengo
Theme music by Jason Graves

Post-production audio by Ali Silva
Podcast production by Ali Silva & Daniel Graves

Produced by Gustavo Rodriguez, Ali Silva, Daniel Graves, & Rebecca Graves for Fireside Mystery Productions

Copyright 2018 Fireside Mystery Productions

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0:00.0

Oh, hello there. It is I, your public servant and advocate for all matters great and small,

0:13.0

Diana Belfare, mayor and proud citizen of the town of Sunkin Harbor, New York. No, no, really,

0:19.2

the pleasure is mine. I wanted to be here to welcome you

0:22.1

personally as you got off at our stop on the Long Island Railroad. Oh, step carefully from the

0:27.2

platform there, please. I am so very pleased to see you've come back to see us again. Oh,

0:31.8

please believe me, all those strange things you encountered the last time you visited our town,

0:35.9

well, those things have been cleared up.

0:38.1

Just in time for our annual strawberry festival. You shouldn't have any of those issues going forward.

0:44.0

Well, why would I tell you differently? After all, my very reputation rests upon it. And a person's

0:49.2

reputation is all they have, isn't that right? Come this way, come, come, there's so much to see.

0:54.4

Hi guys, Sissy here, better known to some of you as Sistern Sissy, the gardening goddess.

1:12.3

Thanks to all you new subscribers to my YouTube channel.

1:15.8

Never in my wildest dreams did I ever think I would amass

1:19.0

over a thousand subscribers.

1:21.6

Wow, just wow, my heart is aglow.

1:25.9

Thank you ever so kindly.

1:30.3

And make sure you don't forget to comment down below. As a young English woman, I suppose I am somewhat genetically predisposed to the art of gardening.

1:36.3

It's in our blood, you see, and we simply cannot stop ourselves from doing something useful with the soil in our surroundings.

1:43.3

As you can plainly hear in my speech, I am English,

1:48.0

but have for the last several years made my home in the good old US of A

1:53.0

here in Sunkin Harbour, New York.

1:55.0

Long Island, New York, that is.

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