Huron-Perth Boomers Summer 2024

SPOTLIGHT
by Elizabeth Bundy-Cooper
intermission crowds. She admitted it was worth the
$2 she made each week.
She also recalled when she served lunches at Knox
Church and William Shatner would come in and get
a lunch for $3. Shatner spent three years in the acting
company beginning in 1954 and understudied for
Christopher Plummer. Laura also said Glenn Gould
stayed at her home, but at the time she did not know
how brilliant a musician he was.
Laura took over the bed and breakfast from her
parents in 1988 and has never looked back. She
raised her three children in the home and became
immersed in life in the city. She started giving tours
to theatre patrons in 1985 because she was asked and
couldn’t say no. After doing that for a few years, the
organization “Friends of the Festival” was born and
is still a busy volunteer group today. She was president
for four years. Laura was also was a coach with the
Stratford Skating Club, and she led a divorce care
group at her church. She is currently a member of
the Probus Club and the Festival City Rotary Club,
as well as the Stratford Sister Cities committee.
One can see the iconic pointed roofline of the
Festival Theatre from her dining room window. Oh,
the conversations that were – and are still being – had
at this table over art and music, plots and themes,
among people from all over the globe.
“It is a true privilege to live in my family home, to
open it to guests and to be a part of the Stratford
scene. What I really cherish about the business is
that I learn so much about the world right on my
doorstep.”
Elizabeth Bundy-Cooper is a freelance writer and a fundraiser
for the United Way Perth Huron in Stratford.
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