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Here's another cultural activity: Bluegrass Pickin' Time, the Dixon bluegrass festival, coming up Labor Day weekend.
That looks like a lot of fun. I'm not as familiar with traditional bluegrass as I am the progressive type "newgrass". I wish my area had more music events like that.
One of our cultural activities in small Ozarks towns is to keep up with our local high school athletic teams.
If you're a transplant accustomed to operas and ballets, this will hurt you, but you ought to consider going to some home football games this fall. Some of you have asked about fittin' in with the locals; one good way is to show your neighbors you support the home football team.
In other words, show your new neighbors that you are interested in the kids of the community. Go to school plays and concerts, too, as well as art exhibitions. Buy some fruit from the FFA at Christmas time. Go to the band's chili supper.
In my little world tonight, my two former home towns got pounded, Republic by Nixa and Aurora by Rogersville, but Rolla pounded Willard, so I feel a little better.
The Missouri S & T Miners open Sept. 3 at Central Missouri and then play at home Sept. 12 against St. Joseph's. The Miners are favored to win the Great Lakes Football Conference this season.
You slickers are probably cringing at my calling this a cultural activity; I suggest you redefine the term, change your way of thinking and join in the fun.
P.S. I forgot to add "smilies" and can't now. I have discovered that if I add those silly little girly things, not quite so many people get mad at me.
I cannot, for the life of me, think of anything less interesting than sitting around watching a bunch of teen agers play some assinine sport. The people who go to athletic activities are people who have children IN THEM and they don't have a choice. You do not find unchilded people at these places, unless it is to support a neice or nephew or to try to suck up to somebody's parents.
While I tend to agree that there is often a dearth of culture in the Ozarks, it can be found with a little perserverance you can find something a LITTLE more interesting than watching a pubescent pupil sweat.
I cannot, for the life of me, think of anything less interesting than sitting around watching a bunch of teen agers play some assinine sport. The people who go to athletic activities are people who have children IN THEM and they don't have a choice. You do not find unchilded people at these places, unless it is to support a neice or nephew or to try to suck up to somebody's parents.
While I tend to agree that there is often a dearth of culture in the Ozarks, it can be found with a little perserverance you can find something a LITTLE more interesting than watching a pubescent pupil sweat.
While high school sports are very popular and well-attended, it's SPORTS not culture.
That said, you'll find me following the local football team on Friday nights and it is a definite small town experience.
Many of the area colleges large and small bring in a lot of cultural events. These can range from events imported from cities to campus plays and other performances.
A lot of the area high schools (even junior highs and middle schools) put on band, symphony, plays, concerts and such throughout the year.
Some communities have local theater and community choirs as well.
In Neosho, MO, the annual "Silver Follies" is coming soon, which is a variety show put together by local senior citizens and held at the local junior college.
There is not "culture" on a par with big cities but it's there if you're interested and want to find it.
Ya think? I live here. I have acquaintances with children. I have acquaintqances without children. I have actually been to a highschool sporting event or two (sucking up to the parents). I think that I am infinitely well informed as to the circumstances surrounding such events.
Has anyone seen the movie Yes Man? Wasn't very good but the idea behind it - saying Yes to all opportunities that present themselves - reminds me a bit of this topic. I like the concept.
Perfect! I like it!
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Originally Posted by OA 5599
Spot on...no cultural activity is fundamentally "better" or more valid than another. Watching a bluegrass band and enjoying some ham, beans, and corn-on-the-cob at OB's church is just as much of a cultural activity as watching a Broadway play.
It is easy for country folk to snuff their noses at city-slickers watching a opera, or those same city-slickers to be disgusted at the idea of a tractor pull (I LOVE tractor pulls), but both can be very fun.
Spot on!
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Originally Posted by kshe95girl
LMAO!!!!!!! I never thought that I would see the day when cultural snobbery reared its ugly head in the Ozarks! Oh, the irony!
Ya think? I live here. I have acquaintances with children. I have acquaintqances without children. I have actually been to a highschool sporting event or two (sucking up to the parents). I think that I am infinitely well informed as to the circumstances surrounding such events.
20yrsinBranson
Thank you for correcting me. After 20 years in Branson, I'm sure you know what you are talking about, and I apologize for saying that you didn't.
I enjoy high school football, college football even more, and professional football, too. I guess I projected that enjoyment of the sport onto everyone. I didn't realize that high school football was only meant for the parents and other relatives of the players. I guess I'll still go to games and listen to them on the radio, though; it's too late now to break a habit.
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Who says the Ozarks lack culture?
Oh, my yes.
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