Vo-Tech Students Create 1,000 Cranes

On July 10, students from ’s Summer Performing Arts, Summer Twilight and EMT programs—along with help from multiple other community groups—created 1,000 paper cranes for a production of the play, “A Thousand Cranes.” 

“A Thousand Cranes (The Story of Sadako)," written by Kathryn Schultz Miller, was directed and staged by Janet Cantore-Watson, with choreography by Maureen Glennon. The performance featured area students enrolled in the Somerset County Vocational & Technical High School Summer Enrichment Performing Arts Camp, and was presented July 20.

Now that the performances are over, the cranes will be mailed to Hiroshima to be included in the Hiroshima Peace Memorial Ceremony. The ceremony, which is performed every year on Aug. 6, is held to console the victims of the atomic bombing and to pray for the realization of lasting world peace.