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THE ARROW MAILBAG |
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Thanks for making First Night a success |
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The First Night Flathead Board would like to thank you and the student body and staff for your support of the valley wide, multi-cultural, new year’s eve celebration of the arts. It was a great night — an excellent turn out, with impressive performances and all kinds of dancing going on. It was so much fun to see the delight on the faces of the participants, to be moved by the music, to welcome in a new year by celebrating creativity with friends
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Kudos to FHS First Night Board members Melanie Francis, Nick Hudak, Nicky LaVoie, Ben Smith, and Luke VanHelden. Among their many contributions was the creation of two swing dance venues, enjoyed by teens and adults alike. Kudos also to Rosie Smith who hosted one Open Reading venue and read her poems in another; to Liam Bowler, Nick Hudak, Josie Parsons, and Robbie Mottrom for their acoustic, Spelling Tuesday, performance at the Hockaday; and to Nick for performing improvisationally with Joan Renne on Sitar and Tablas at FHS.
A big thank you to the FHS Student Council and CARE for sponsoring the two FHS venues, and to Dina Miller, Roger Charbonneau, and Doug Russell for help with performance venue set-up. A beautiful bouquet of roses to Sharon Berger whose editorial, wordsmithing, and design skills were invaluable in creating PR materials for the schools and community.
Nancy Rose
For the First Night Flathead Board
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Transcendentalism protects peoples rights |
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“If we wish to maintain a free society for the majority, you must protect the rights of the minority.” It is because I agree with this transcendentalist quote that I think this is the way the government functions best.
During the age of reform in America, people were looking to new horizons. There were frontier heroes and transcendentalists. The North decidedly disliked slavery, and the poorer South was clinging to any sort of business they could find. Losing the slaves wouldn’t only have hurt their superiority complex, it also would have hurt their business. America was developing a culture all its own.
Literature, art, politics, economics, and philosophy were all alive and thriving in our country. We were the home of the first novelists, like James Fenimore Cooper, who also gave us our first heroes. People wanted to break free, test the limits, and expand whichever way they could, and old ideas and ways of doing things only held them back. In shedding America’s older ideals and changing the focus of the nation, we also changed our views and opinions on many subjects. Suddenly, Black people were just that, people, in some white men’s eyes. Having money didn’t give you the exclusive right to vote. Freedom became something that wasn’t just a word, but a right which we needed to defend for all. In doing this, people realized that they must maintain a free society by freeing those who weren’t. This issue would be one that would tear apart a nation that men had given their lives for. A nation where “all your dreams came true.” America hadn’t lived up to its name, and in attempting to, tore itself apart.
Junior Sarah Berg
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