By Joyce Kryszak
Jamestown, NY – For Lucille Ball fans, Memorial Day weekend has become synonymous with slapstick fun and nostalgia in the comedienne's hometown of Jamestown. But recent changes in management at the Lucy Desi Musuem have canceled, for this year, one of her fans' two favorite annual festivals.
The Lucy-Desi Museum's troubles began, like a bad episode, early this year. A dispute between the Chautauqua County Arts Council, and Lucy's two children, about how the museum should be run, threatened to close the museum. And that, ultimately, led to a take-over of the museum by a new board of directors. The reorganization did cancel this year's Memorial day pilgramage. But the Center's Executive Director Ric Wyman says there's a happy ending.
Click the "listen" icon above to hear Ric's conversation with WBFO's Joyce Kryszak.