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Part III - Culture, a supplement to the Big Rapids Pioneer Newspaper. Used with permission.
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PLAY FOR ALL
The high school, college and community plays of today certainly don't dominate the entertainment of area citizens like they did in years past, but they still provide a good sound source of fun for people in communities throughout Mecosta County.
The advertised a play from several decades past when 50 local men were featured as characters in a preformance of "Womanless Wedding" to benefit the War Bond Drive during World War II.
A earlier production of Tom Sawyer (top below) featured Jim and Otto Mehl and Richard Swanson, according to information on the back of a picture from the Mecosta County Historical Society. A former Big Rapids High School teacher, Ada A. Crain, identified the group picture (bottom belkow) as the cast of a play at Ferris Institute in the 1940's. (Pioneer file photos)
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