It doesn’t get any more American and apple pie than Thornton Wilder’s “Our Town.” The tried-and-true high school chestnut play, with minimal sets and homespun dialogue, hearkens back to a simpler time, when neighbors talked to each other from their front porches, and the boy next door fell for the girl of his dreams.

With all the sturm und drang on the national scene these days, my prescription for an anti-swine flu remedy is a healthy dose of Americana – and that’s exactly what you’ll get if you head to Sherburne this weekend to see their rendition of “Our Town.” Showtime is at 7 p.m. tonight and Saturday at the Sherburne-Earville high school auditorium. Tickets will be sold at the door.

Director Colleen Law-Tefft has done it again – taken a disparate group of high school students and woven them (with a little help from Mr. Wilder) into a perfect tapestry of a bygone era.

The stage manager (Stephanie Joyce), guides us through the set piece, but the action’s not difficult to follow. Maybe that’s because the town where the play is set, Grover’s Corners, N.H., really could be “our town.” Even though the time is the early 1900s, much of the goings-on in Grover’s Corners are mirrored in the small towns of Chenango County today. The aforementioned neighbors are cordial, but know everyone’s business, and the town creeps along at a leisurely pace, in which the most mundane tasks take on a ritualistic air. It’s a comfortable familiarity; Wilder’s depiction of small town life is as accurate today as it was the day he wrote it.