By Paul Sylvain

With scarcely three weeks until the annual Machias Wild Blueberry Festival’s musical opens for its all-too-brief four-night run at the Centre Street Congregational Church, Gene Nichols and company are hitting their weekly rehearsals hard.

This year’s production, titled The Pringle Family Re-enactors, was written and is being directed by Nichols. With about 30 parodies of mostly well known songs planned for the show, calling it ambitious is an understatement.