Ben & Jerry to narrate Peter and the Wolf at the Medallion

GORHAM — It is the stuff of legends. Back in 1978, two high school buddies leased an old gas station, in downtown Burlington, with a plan to open a home-made ice cream shop in this quiet Vermont college town. Having completed a mail order ice cream making course, their next step was to procure the cooking and display equipment that would help turn their dream into reality. A foreclosure notice for a restaurant in downtown Gorham caught their attention and they headed off to New Hampshire in a borrowed pick-up truck with their slim checkbook. Not finding much competition at the auction, they bought as many stoves, refrigerators and display cases as they could fit into their vehicle.

Forty years and millions of ice cream cones later, Ben & Jerry’s Homemade is a household name around the globe. At 7 p.m. on July 14, the company’s founders, Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield, will return to Gorham to perform with the North Country Chamber Players at the Medallion Opera House, where they will narrate Prokofiev’s beloved musical tale, "Peter and the Wolf."