By Alec Kerr, Special to The Conway Daily Sun
TAMWORTH — School may be out for the summer, but for the Barnstormers' production of Jonathan Spector’s “Eureka Day,” school is back in session. In this play, the idealistic Eureka Day School has its values put to the test by a contentious issue.
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