CANTON -- Organizers of the Local Living Festival have announced Modern Times Theater will present several comedy acts during the Sept. 24 and 25 event at the Cornell Cooperative Extension Learning Farm.

The weekend will feature 75 workshops, speakers and demonstrations on resourceful and simple living skills and practices. Exhibits will feature fiber arts, forestry products, renewable energy systems, hand-made personal care items, traditional crafts, how-to books and more.

Modern Times Theater will present a series from “The Rural Person’s Verbal Reclamation Front,” whose mission is to "rescue language from the icy grip of the post-industrial empire and present it as a gift for the mutual benefit of the common folk."

They will also perform “The Wonderful and Gruesome Drama of Punch and Judy”.

Modern Times Theater shows convey a general dissatisfaction with post-modern convenience and promote a return to old-fashioned difficulty.

For more information, call 347-4223, e-mail SustLivingProject@gmail.com or visit www.SustainableLivingProject.net.

The project is staffed by volunteers, welcomes new people who wish to help organize the event and is a part of Seedcorn, a non-profit educational organization, based in Potsdam.