“To those who made us laugh and all who laugh with us…”

This inscription runs across a new bronze relief sculpture placed on the stone wall in the Littleton Museum’s memorial garden.

“It’s for you,” said Kay Moore to family and friends who gathered Sept. 4 to dedicate the piece and share a few laughs as they remembered the late Jack I. Moore.

“He made me laugh,” she said, “…he walked in the neighborhood, making people laugh; he even tried to bring laughter into negotiations of the Mountain States Employers Council,” where he worked.

He is especially remembered in Littleton for creating, with his wife, a musical production that spoofed local politicos and institutions. “Fiasco” ran for 25 years, with others such as Dan Brickley , Max and Donna Smith, Kathy and Dick Peterson, Mike Massey, Phil and Diane Swaim and many more taking on the creation and staging each year. Unfortunately, the next generation did not step in to continue the tradition, so it was finally retired.

When Moore died, friends contributed to a memorial fund at a party that celebrated this exceptionally clever man, a musical revue of favorite past “Fiasco” numbers. His family decided on the sculpture and contracted with Littleton artist Karen Crain to create it.

Moore’s sons Patrick and Christopher unveiled the piece with Crain.

It depicts a group of happy faces of various ages, with Moore’s portrait at the top left. Others are not specific portraits, Crain said, although some in the crowd thought they recognized community friends. A pair of jesters appear at the edges.

Happily, those early performers keep popping up — most recently as the ceremony’s “Moore the Merrier Singers,” who dressed in an imaginative assortment of styles, all tied together with a lime green and hot pink color scheme: top hats, feather boas, ties, belts and more. Frequent “Fiasco” director and writer Katherine Peterson conducted the colorful group of 16 in a series of songs about laughter, interspersed with tired old vaudeville jokes and silly commentary.

Sharing a glass of wine, talking and laughing, a hundred longtime friends remembered and connected on a beautiful summer evening.