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Garst Museum in Greenville set to allow visitors to take aim with Annie Oakley's guns
History buffs and gun enthusiasts have a special opportunity next weekend, all because of Annie Oakley. Oakley, a small woman, earned a big reputation as a straight shooter. ...
Annie Oakley by Hank Nuwer
I wanted to write a little something about the National Annie Oakley Center housed at Greenville’s Garst Museum. Naturally I walked one whole block from our house to the Union City, Ind., Carnegie Library. Always helpful library director Lawrence Sexton found me a biography by the late Darke County author Annie Fern Swartwout. It’s a signed copy in fact.
Smith and jazz band return for Sunday concert
GREENVILLE — The next concert in the park will be July 21 at 7 p.m. featuring the Greenville Municipal Jazz Band. The concert is free and open to the public. Their guest soloist this week will be the fabulous Penney Lynn Smith. A 1981 Graduate of Greenville High School, Penney has spent the last 30 years as a resident in South Carolina. She is a consistent performer at the Savannah Theater including roles in Chicago, A, My Name is Alice, Anything Goes, Nunsense and Pump Boys and Dinettes. On the stage Smith has appeared in Showtune, Red Hot and Cole, The Honkey Tonk Angels and 9 to 5. She was also the Music Director for Always, Patsy Cline, Little Shop of Horrors and Grease (which received the Broadway World South Carolina 2014”Best Musical” award.)
Last Evangelist red carpet premiere
BROOKVILLE — David Heavener, producer of over 50 films, announces the Red Carpet Premiere for his newest project, Last Evangelist, a multi-award winning TV series, on July 20. Last Evangelist is a crime drama set in the near future when unregistered churches have become illegal. Just like Saul on...
1990s Swing Revival takes on 2020s Hip-Hop Infused Electro Swing with the KSO
The KSO continues its 30th Summer Series of free concerts in the parks with a battle of generations —1990s Swing Revival takes on 2020s hip-hop infused Electro Swing. Swing Revival or Neo-Swing was a musical phenomenon of the 1990s as West Coast bands rooted in the Swing era of the 1930s-40s began seasoning their sound with rock-a-billy, boogie-woogie, jump blues and ska. Groups like Royal Crown Revue and Big Bad Voodoo Daddy even made on-screen cameos in the films like The Mask (1994) and Swingers (1996), and brought this high energy swing into the mainstream and dance clubs across the nation. Brian Setzer covered Louis Prima’s original “Jump Jive and Wail,” which became a swing dance commercial for The Gap’s khakis line (1998).
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