color me in and g i ve to a fr i end

Tuesday Night Game Night (7pm @ Games, Comics, Etc. . .every tuesday)

Thursday Night Game Night (7pm @ Metagames Unlimited. . .every thursday)

Parties at The Park (5-8pm @ Farmers Park. . .every yhursday)

City Council Meeting (6:30 @ City Hall . . .second and fourth monday each month)

Social Ride Bike Pubcrawl (6:30pm @ Dugout. . .every 3rd thursday)

Upcycle to make a Difference (2pm @Park Central Library. . .every saturday)

Get Hooked on Loom Knitting (4pm@ Midtown Library. . . tuesdays)

Parties at the Park (5pm @ Farm'ers Park. . . thursdays)

8/1 Springfield Craft Beer Bash – Central Park Square @ 3pm

8/1 Harry Potter Pub Quiz – London Call ing @ 6pm

8/1 Carving a Whole Chicken Carcass – Farmer’s Park @ 1 0am

8/4 Career Fair – Battlefield Mall @ 1 0:30am

8/5 Pride Meeting – GLO Center @ 6:30pm

8/5 Petition Train/Sign for Cannabis Restoration – Brentwood Library @ 6:30pm

8/7,8&9 Tax Free School Supplies – Battlefield Mall

8/8 Pacman for Pups – 1 984 @ 1 :30 ($5)

8/8 Beers, Butts & Bikes – Mother’s Brewing Co @ 1 pm

8/8 Quadditch House Cup Roller Derby – Remington’s @ 5:30 ($1 0, $1 2 at door)

8/9 Cards Against Humanity Fundraiser – Meta Games @ 6pm

8/1 0 Learn to Grow: Garden Above Ground – SGF Botanical Garden @ 6:30pm ($5)

8/1 5 Super Easy Seed Saving – Midtown Library @ 1 pm

8/1 5&1 6 Natural Healing Arts Fair – Abou Ben Adhem Shrine @ 11 am ($5, $3 senior,

free under 1 2)

8/1 6 Community Initiative Session – Community Partnership of the Ozarks @ 2pm

8/20 Craft Night: Origami Magic – Midtown Library @ 6pm

8/20 Cruisin’ for a Brewsin’ – Dugout Bar & Gril @ 6:30pm

8/21 &22 Annual Fetish Ball – Martha’s Vineyard @ 5pm ($6, $8 minors)

8/24 Super Easy Seed Saving – Library Station @ 7pm

8/29 ‘Mater Madness Festival – Farmer’s Park @ 8am

8/29 Ozarks Mini Maker Faire – Springfield Expo Center @ 1 0am

a u g u s t

7pm @ Big Momma’s. . .every Monday7:30 @ Jo's Gatherin' Place. . .every Monday9pm @ The Flea. . .every Monday9pm @ Martha's Vineyard. . .every Tuesday1 0pm @ Dublin's Pass. . .every Wednesday9pm @ Frisco Tap Room.. .every Thursday

Commun ity/Be i ng

Fi rst Fr i day (8/7 )Open M ics

Queen City Ukulele Club (6:30-8pm@ Springfield Music every 1 st and 3rd tuesday)

Guitar for Beginners (5pm @ Conservatory of the Ozarks. . .wednesdays)

MO Poetry Writing Workshop (7pm @ The Creamery. . .every 1 st thursday)

Contra & Country Barn Dance (7:30-1 0:30 @ Nothview center. . .1 st and 3rd

saturdays, $4-6)

The Young Adult Writing Group (6:30 @ The Creamery. . .wednesdays)

Printmaking Group (5:30-8pm @ The Creamery. . .mondays)

Painting Workshop (9:30am-11 :30 @ The Creamery. . .2nd & 4th wednesday, $1 0)

Moon City Jam (7pm @ Big Momma's. . .every 1 st thursday)

Weekend Walk-in Theater (6:30 @ Park Central Library. . .saturdays)

Movies at Founders Park (sundown @ Founders Park. . .saturdays)

8/1 Wicked Sick Beats – Frisco Tap @ 8pm ($2 minors)

8/1 Bad Taste – Phantasmagoria @ 7pm & 9:30pm

8/2 Sprout House Summer Slumber – Sprout House @ 7pm

8/3&4 Call for Artists: At Play! – The Creamery @ 9am

8/4 Graphic Novel Book Club for Ladies: Rat Queens – Bookmarx @ 7pm

8/6 Reeves Gabrels & His Imaginary Friends – Patton Alley @ 1 0pm

8/6 The Write Workshop – The Creamery @ 7pm

8/7 Lil ly Bee & The Poll inators – Lindberg’s @ 9pm

8/8 “Big Hero 6” – Strafford Library @ 2pm

8/8 Graphic Novels for Grown-ups: Bluesman – Brentwood Library @ 1 :30pm

8/9 A Sunday Afternoon – Springfield Art Museum @ 1 pm

8/9 Sunday Concert Series: The Happy Plunkers – Library Center @ 2pm

8/9 Anniversary Celebration – 7 C's Winery @ 2pm

8/11 Foreign Film Festival: Grigris – Brentwood Library @ 6:30pm

8/1 2 Americana in the Garden: Annelise Emerick – SGF Botanical Garden @

6:30pm

8/1 5 Wild Bob’s Musical Book Club: Go Set a Watchman – Lindberg’s @ 6:30pm

8/20 August Book Club: Everything I Never Told You – Bookmarx @ 7pm

8/22 “Babies” – Strafford Library @ 1 pm

8/27 Local Writers Reading Series – Bookmarx @ 7:30pm

8/27 Fiction Writers Meet-up – Midtown Library @ 6pm

8/28 “Jaws” – Mother's Brewery @ 8:30pm ($5)

8/29 Twil ight Delight – OOVDA Winery @ 5pm

a u g u s tMus ic /Art

Fi rst Fr i day (8/7 ) -Queen City Rock Camp Showcase – Clara Thompson Hall @

6:30pm ($5)

-At Play! – The Creamery @ 6pm

-First Friday Zine Jam – RSVPaint @ 7pm

-Old Mr. Bones: Personality Disorder – Arts & Letters @ 7pm

-I Knew Not Where I Was – Park Central Library @ 6pm

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On July 11 th, in 1 969,

Beaula Boskins sat down with Max

Hunter in Reed Springs. They recorded a

beautiful rendition of the folk song “Poor

Wayfaring Stranger.” I t is a capella, just

Beaula’s voice caught on tape as it fi l ls

the room. I don’t know if Max has

stepped out, but I imagine him there,

sitting quietly.

Hunter combed the

Ozarks as a travell ing salesman in the

1 950s. His obituary tel ls the story of him

playing guitar to himself on the road, and

learning to record on a

portable reel-to-reel.

Hunter then began

recording locals,

documenting their culture,

expressions, and music.

For almost 20 years he

built an interest and

reputation out of the

disappearing folk tradition in the Ozarks,

going so far as to run moonshine in

exchange for a song, and collecting over

1 4 hours of music by the time he was

done. Hunter went on to receive high

honors from the Missouri Arts Council ,

and have his entire collection housed by

the Springfield-Greene County Library.

In the late 90’s a huge

effort was made by the Library and

Missouri State to digitize and transcribe

the entire collection, and you can find it

al l onl ine now. I t is an incredible wealth of

music, with Ozarkian takes on well-

known classics, as well as absolutely

unique pieces of folk history.

Beaula’s “Wayfaring

Stranger” is lofty and almost operatic,

with a l ight, natural reverb. Some of the

songs are rough, and you can hear a

different sort of age and life in the

singers' voices. “Just Common Folk” is

performed by Otis Wil l iams, who has a

quiet, somewhat unsteady older voice.

Otis pauses sometimes, searching for the

next word, and the song’s promise of a

heaven for the common people seems

like a lived experience in his

performance.

While many of the songs

are sombre, and often rel igious, they are

also funny. The breadth of topics is as

broad as the topics of l ife. In “Agaline”

Reba Jenkins relays the tale of a man

who buys an unruly goat and then fails at

trying to kil l i t. I t is l ike a looney tunes

cartoon in the way it pairs

obscene violence with

slapstick humor.

Music has always been a

way to paint the time of l ife,

and in an era before tv and

the internet, documenting

and sharing the variety of

l ife in music was an

essential part of close-knit cultures. To

some extent it sti l l is; local music scenes

continue to develop and the music

continues (in its own way) to reflect l ife.

People are sti l l getting together to jam

and trade songs, and wil l be for the

foreseeable future, and many others are

sti l l l istening in and recording what they

can, hoping to leave behind a

documentation of the folks they saw and

the music that was made. A look back in

time through the Max Hunter collection

reveals and celebrates the long history of

homegrown music and culture in the

Ozarks, and the transcendence of

documentation and preservation. I highly

recommend taking a few minutes to fl ip

through the collection and have a listen

yourself!

Find it here: maxhunter.missouristate.edu

LISTENING IN ONTHE OZARKS