Fall 2013

At her 10th birthday party, Meg is given the board game “Out of Time: A Time Traveler’s Scavenger Hunt.” As her Great Grandpa explains the game, he tells them he’s is actually from 400 years into the future and when he played the game as a child, he got “stuck” in the 1930s. He grew up, fell in love and then gave the game to oldest son, Bogart on his 10th birthday. He’s been missing ever since. Meg, her friends, her sister and sister’s friend decide to play right away. Time travelers from various centuries begin appearing at the birthday party. One by one they take a member of the birthday party and leave on their quest to find Great Uncle Bogart. Will they find Meg’s Great Uncle? Will everyone playing the game return to the present day before the game is over? Or will they be ‘out of time?’

History professor and adventurer Nebraska Smith, previously seen in Shorewood Drama Jr.’s Saturday Afternoon at the Bijou, is off on another quest. Nebraska, with the help of his wife, son, and friends, must travel the globe and through time to find the notorious French archeologist Dr. Bordeaux and his wealthy backer, the sinister Japanese businessman, Mr. Saki. They will battle historical troublemakers all over the map in order to uncover Bordeaux and Saki’s dastardly plans, masterminded by the evil Soviet physicist Dr. Sascha Vodkarov. Can Nebraska and his gang halt them from stealing histories riches? Can they foil their plan to take over the universe? Or will time and history be against Nebraska as he tries to stop Bordeaux, Saki and Vodkarov from becoming the most powerful people in 1947? That is the Mystery of History’s Future.

The bus containing the starting line-up for the 1913 New York Yankees and “The Boss,” their manager, goes over a cliff on the way to an away game. The bus passes through some sort of black hole and the team ends up in Arthurian Britain, circa 528 A.D. The team wins the kingdom’s favor after pitcher, Cuddles Marshall displays his curveball. Star shortstop, Lefty Davis and first baseman, Dazzy Vance, fall in love with the King’s nieces, who are engaged to two Knights of the Round Table forcing a jousting tournament which becomes baseball game between the Knights and the Yankees. However, worse trouble befalls the team when they attempt to help King Arthur save his kingdom from the evil Merlin. Will “The Boss” be eaten by a terrible dragon? Will Lefty and Dazzy “strike out” with Ladies Cindy and Sandy? Will the Yankees win the World Series? Stay tuned sports fans.