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The photographs show the AYPA players at St. Peter's Hall performing the scene "Silas Pettingill's Country Store" from the play "Music at the Crossroads", directed by Stewart Dickson. The caption on the back of one of the images identifies the people as follows: Back row, left to right: Harry Shama, Jimmy Korrey, Sterling Walker, Stewart Dickson (Director), Canon Malone, Marjorie MacPherson (later Marjorie Vessey), Delma Peake (later Delma Horne), Helen Acorn (later Helen Jewell), Art MacLean. Front row, left to right: Marion Peake, Mary Acorn (later Mary Hooper), Hilda Pickard, Peter Shama, Barb Pickard, Robert Acorn, Eleanor Kays.

The photographs show the cast of the 1953 AYPA play "Prison Across the Street" posing in costume on stage. The people have been identified on the back of the photograph as follows: Albert Weatherby, Lily (MacPherson) Augustine (best actress award, Stewiacke NS), Peter Shama, June (Dickson) McKenzie, Arthur MacLean, Gladys (Kays) Dirani.

The photographs show the cast of the AYPA play "The Bishop's Candlesticks" posing in costume. The caption on the back of one of the images identifies the people in the photographs as: Peter Shama, Milton Acorn, Arthur MacLean, Mary Acorn (later Mary Hooper) , Stewart Dickson (director), Barbara Pickard. They were the Drama Festival Winners of 1948.

Photographs show the cast of a AYPA play "Music at the Crossroads" at St. Peter's Hall:
Back row standing, left to right: Harry Shama, Stuart Dickson (Director), Canon E.M. Malone, Alice Dickson (later Alice Fraser), Helen Acorn (later Helen Jewell), Mary Acorn (later Mary Hooper), Milton Acorn, Art MacLean
Front row sitting, left to right: Majorie MacPherson (later Majorie Vessey), Peter Shama, Hilda Pickard (later Hilda Sterns), George Vessey, Viola Kays, Fred Saunders

Photograph A shows the AYPA cast of the play "This Night Shall Pass" in 1954. The photograph shows the cast from left to right: June Dickson (later June MacKenzie), Arthur MacLean, Harry Shama. Photograph B shows the same three individuals, and photograph C shows only Arthur MacLean and June Dickson. The newspaper clipping indicates that the performers won an award at the AYPA festival in Halifax, Nova Scotia. As noted on the back of the photographs and in the newspaper clipping, the director was A. Stuart Dickson.

The photographs show the 125th Anniversary church service taking place. Only A and C have been scanned.