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it certainly isn't jack lighting deer on the backroads
Don't get me wrong, I like stupid fun has much as the next person.
Buts it also good to have quality ballets, operas, symphonies and other arts nearby and available. Definitely support your local high school and amateur productions. But fi you ever get a chance take in a good show or art museum.
Sorry, but Branson doesn't count has high culture (and neither does Disneyland/DisneyWorld)
Dimsdale, we don't have a symphony, ballet or opera in Rolla. I don't think any of the other towns in Phelps or surrounding counties do either. A local artist has a museum in his house, and the city's fitness center exhibits a different artist's work each month. The University also exhibits art at the performing arts center, where they also bring in plays and such from time to time that we occasionally attend.
Generally speaking, though, we don't have "high culture" readily available. Those higher up in the socio-economic scale go to St. Louis frequently. Those of us down here where I live make do with the library, the internet, public radio and community theater. Otherwise, we embrace what I guess you would call "low culture": school and university sports, band concerts and plays; church suppers, bluegrass jam sessions, gospel singings. I saw St. Louis singer Erin Bode at a nightclub here a few years back; does that count?
My point again is that transplants are going to have to reform their idea of acceptable culture to be comfortable and fit in here. To avoid culture shock, recognize BEFORE you move that most of what you take for granted in the city is NOT nearby and readily available.
We're just not as intelliegent as folks like our highbrow friend Dimsdale, so if you are going to live amongst us, we pray you'll learn to tolerate us.
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Only problem with this is that St. Louis is outside of the Ozarks. The Ozarks don't cover much of St. Louis County at all, only the far southern and southwestern portions, and certainly not any of St. Louis City proper.
Oops, this IS the "Modern Ozarks Cultural Activities" forum thread. But at least St. Louis is conveniently located a fairly short drive up I-44 and I-55.
Wouldn't Missouri be a pretty boring, one-dimensional state if the entire state resembled St. Louis, or Kansas City? I think AJF had it 100 percent right in another thread where he noted that Missouri is probably the most diverse state in the Midwest, and among the most diverse states in the country. A wide variety of things for everyone to enjoy. Except surfers, I guess. But you can water-ski!
No, Branson (at pop.7500) doesn't have the full time population to support much "high" culture...but you won't absolutely go gasping into cardiac-culture-arrest if you live 'round these parts...
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I've had my fill of that junk, Step Mom hates it when I say her classic violin is a fiddle...
Step Sister and Step Mom love the Opera, hell I don't even like Oprah, much less the Opera
As for a fine San Fransico Play??? Nope, not me only time I go to "The City" is to watch the Grand National Rodeo at the Cow Palace...Someone said the other day that the King Tut exibit is at the Museum, Now why would I want to pay 40 bucks to go see some dead Arab, you can see all you want on Fox News.....Now I do like to watch some sports, mostly racing though...I do like the dirt tracks.....and I like some football. Raider fan here ( yeah I'm a gluten for punishment)
Oh yeah I do like the Museum in St. Louis, I like anything and everything about the old west, read all the Louis Lamour books...
Culture-Bah Humbub
I've had my fill of that junk, Step Mom hates it when I say her classic violin is a fiddle...
Step Sister and Step Mom love the Opera, hell I don't even like Oprah, much less the Opera
As for a fine San Fransico Play??? Nope, not me only time I go to "The City" is to watch the Grand National Rodeo at the Cow Palace...Someone said the other day that the King Tut exibit is at the Museum, Now why would I want to pay 40 bucks to go see some dead Arab, you can see all you want on Fox News.....Now I do like to watch some sports, mostly racing though...I do like the dirt tracks.....and I like some football. Raider fan here ( yeah I'm a gluten for punishment)
Oh yeah I do like the Museum in St. Louis, I like anything and everything about the old west, read all the Louis Lamour books...
You, sir, are a philistine!
I'm partaking of another part of Ozarks culture right this very minute. As I type this, I am listening to Bluegrass for a Saturday Night, which you, too, can listen to if you log onto our University radio station's website, KMST, at www.kmst.org and click on Listen Live. Mighty fine pickin'. Mighty fine. Dimsdale Pirate or whatever his or her name is wouldn't like it, but you might, Bassman, and Curmudgeon.
Now that's blasphemy, how can you call yourself a Missourian if you don't have Cardinal baseball on your radio!
The Cards are beating Washington 9 - 4 in the 7th. They are playoff bound!
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You, sir, are a philistine!
I'm partaking of another part of Ozarks culture right this very minute. As I type this, I am listening to Bluegrass for a Saturday Night, which you, too, can listen to if you log onto our University radio station's website, KMST, at www.kmst.org and click on Listen Live. Mighty fine pickin'. Mighty fine. Dimsdale Pirate or whatever his or her name is wouldn't like it, but you might, Bassman, and Curmudgeon.
I'm partaking of another part of Ozarks culture right this very minute. As I type this, I am listening to Bluegrass for a Saturday Night, which you, too, can listen to if you log onto our University radio station's website, KMST, at www.kmst.org and click on Listen Live. Mighty fine pickin'. Mighty fine.
I was just turned on to the band Ha Ha Tonka. The music is something along the lines of folksy indie rock with some alt-country influences as well. At first listen they sound like the Kings of Leon, but after listening a little more they definitely have their own very unique Ozarks flavor. Many of their songs are about the Ozarks, and deal with some of the wonderful things as well as some of the problems of the area.
I was able to see them live this past week up here in St. Louis and was very impressed...they put on a really good show, and were more than happy to talk with fans after the show. Definitely the first concert I've attended where I was able to actually meet the band. Several of the band members are from the same county as me, and many of their songs mention landmarks throughout that area of south-central Missouri.
Needless to say, I'm very happy to hear some good music coming from the Ozarks, and especially the same part of the Ozarks that I grew up in.
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I don't think any of the other towns in Phelps or surrounding counties do either. A local artist has a museum in his house, and the city's fitness center exhibits a different artist's work each month. The University also exhibits art at the performing arts center, where they also bring in plays and such from time to time that we occasionally attend.
recognize BEFORE you move that most of what you take for granted in the city is NOT nearby and readily available.
so if you are going to live amongst us, we pray you'll learn to tolerate us.
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