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tickets cost $3.00 and could be paid in produce. W have e been unable to unearth documentation of activities of the Dramatic Association beyond 1880, but it is safe to say that a community tradition had been set which no doubt led to support and encouragement of theater at S. U . S . C. and the present renowned Shakespeare theater. Few communities of this size in the world have so rich a record of commitment to the performing a r t s . Theatre was not the sole cultural interest of the early citizens of Cedar City. Choirs for the singing of both religious and secular music were maintained from the earliest period. In 1866 fundraising activities were under way for the purchase of instruments for a brass band and for a cabinet organ. Several fiddlers were always available for the dances, which capped every town celebration and were the most important amusement in all early Mormon towns. The dances were presided over by a "floor manager" whose duties were to admit only people of good standing, and to see that all the men who danced paid their tickets. Tickets could be paid for with beets, carrots, beans, or other produce, or with an order for ditchwork or barbering--anything the musicians could use. The ticket entitled each man to a number. The numbers of those to dance each dance were called in rotation, and if anyone danced out of his t u r n he was told by the floor manager to take his s e a t , unless he could prove that he had traded t u r n s with someone else. Most of the people turned out for dances, some to dance, some to look o n , visit, hear the music, make s u r e the younger ones behaved, and to take care of the babies of the dancers. Popular dances included the hilarious, the quadrille, Virginia Reel, and the Minuet. These were formal square dances, not the improvisational dance that square-dancing is today. Round dances, which became popular with the young people in the 1870s and 1880s. such as the waltz, the polka, o r the schottish, were strictly forbidden, though eventually concessions were made permitting one o r two such questionable dances per evening. Surely in such activities a s well a s in the more earnest work of building city walls o r smelting iron, the inhabitants of Cedar Clty were brought to practice the social a r t s which over the years built a sense of community among the disparate settlers early and late who ended o r interrupted their life's journeys in this place. The foundations for community were laid 125 years ago, when personal wants were sacrificed o r deferred to expedite the greater community goal of making iron. Since that time, this foundation has been built upon in a 'thousand ways--in the founding of a community store, the building of ditches, fences and roads, the herding of livestock, building of telegraph lines o r erecting of college buildings. The extent to which cooperative enterprise helped to build the local economy in the last century as well a s in this
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| Title | Mayors of Cedar City |
| Creator | Jones, Evelyn K.; Jones, York F., 1925- |
| Subject | Mayors -- Utah -- Cedar City -- Biography; Cedar City (Utah) -- Politics and government; Cedar City (Utah) -- Biography; Cedar City (Utah) -- History |
| Description | Includes biographies of the mayors of Cedar City and examples from the city minutes showing the events that took place under each administration. The three histories printed in the second section were written by three men at three different times in the history of Cedar City. |
| Source | Mayors |
| Date Digital | 2008-01 |
| Date Original | 1986 |
| Type | Image; Still image |
| Format | image/pdf |
| Digitization Specs | JPEG image for display. Archived TIFF image was scanned at 300 dpi with a CreoScitex EverSmart Jazz+ scanner. |
| Contributing Institution | Digitized by: Sherratt Library, Southern Utah University, Cedar City, Utah |
| Publisher | Southern Utah State College |
| Language | eng |
| Genre | Biography |
| Website | http://www.li.suu.edu/library/digitization/mayors.html |
| Rights Management | Digital image c2008 Sherratt Library, Southern Utah University. All rights reserved. |
| CONTENTdm file name | 535.cpd |
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