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Gold Camp Jubilee Days: History, Highlights, and Community Celebrations · The Scene Projects

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  Welcome in to a very exciting episode and special edition of the scene.
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  Today, I am joined by the city administrator for the city of Leed and my friend, Robin
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  Lucero.
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  Robin, welcome to the show.
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  Morning.
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  We're gonna get to talk about one of my favorite events of all time, the Gold Camp
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  Jubilee Days in Lead, South Dakota today, my hometown, at least the home community.
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  Deadwood address, but Lead always felt like the community.
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  Right?
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  And and I know that that's true for you as well.
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  A little inside baseball, Robin and I grew up as neighbors, when we were growing up.
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  So, great conversation today, and wanna get a little bit, out of the way early about just
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  what is Gold Camp Jubilee Days from a historical standpoint.
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  That's a great question.
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  And this year is the hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the city of Leed being founded
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  and also the hundredth anniversary of the first Gold Camp Jubilee days.
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  And so in 1926, Homestake put on this huge celebration.
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  They brought in a band, and they made a huge stage, and they had a a great big community
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  celebration.
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  At that time, it was during Labor Day.
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  And ever since then, it was Labor Day in the beginning.
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  Now it shifted to the July 4, and the city of Leed has a a big community celebration every
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  year.
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  This is the hundredth year.
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  Yeah.
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  Incredible.
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  And now I've had a chance to play it with my band starts and ends a few times.
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  I also played it.
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  That was one of my first big live performances actually in the band shell.
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  My first time singing in front of what was probably a thousand people out there, with my
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  dad's old band, the acoustic gypsies, way back when.
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  It's so fun.
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  This event means so much to me personally, although I don't get to make it back there, you
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  know, very often now that I don't live in the community.
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  But I know what it means to the community, and not just because of the fireworks show, which
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  is the best in the world.
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  I will promise you when they shoot these fireworks over the open cut mine that is now
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  the Sanford Lab up there, that they have the biggest boom you will ever hear and feel in
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  your life.
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  But this year, it is about way more than just the fireworks.
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  Robin, can you tell me and maybe we'll just take it day by day.
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  Let's start with Thursday, July 2, and we'll move from there.
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  Okay.
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  That sounds good.
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  So on on Thursday, we are going to that's kind of the kickoff.
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  We're hoping that people will come to town on Thursday, and they'll stay through Sunday.
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  So down here on Main Street where the Homestake Opera House is, that's also where the Lee
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  Deadwood Art Center is.
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  And so they are gonna have an alumni art show.
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  An alumni, meaning Lee Deadwood graduates, can enter in artwork that will be on display the
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  whole weekend.
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  So that's gonna be kind of a open house style where they are looking for anyone that does any
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  type of artistic, you know, anything from welding to painting to poems, anything like
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  that can be submitted to that art show.
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  And then for a children's exhibit, the lead historic preservation group is going to be
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  hosting a more than gold exhibit in the Opera House.
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  It's gonna be hands on for kids.
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  And what they're gonna learn is they're gonna learn how the settlers actually came to Lead
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  and how they laid out the town of Lead.
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  And so this interactive kid activity is gonna teach the kids how to find the North Star using
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  the stars, and so they set that up at night.
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  And then during the day, that's they could use north to be able to lay out the town.
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  So they're gonna have kind of a, stars laid out in the exhibit hall of the opera house so they
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  can find out how to find that north star, and then they'll be able to lay out north, south,
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  east, west using that.
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  And then they can design their own town from there.
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  They're also gonna have a really cool exhibit where if you have a historical photo of, like,
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  your grandparents or your great grandparents, you can send that in.
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  And Terry Smith with historic preservation, they're going to print those.
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  They're gonna have AI do it into a a printable color picture.
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  So historic picture into a coloring photo that the kids can color of their family, and then
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  that's gonna go in the time capsule that we're gonna do.
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  So later on, I'll talk about the time capsule.
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  But this is gonna be super cool because kids are gonna be the ones that are gonna be around
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  when we get to open that time capsule.
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  And so for them to kind of find their family history, get to do a drawing and color it, and
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  then have that be in the time capsule is super cool.
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  There's gonna be a really awesome silent auction down at the Opera House all day on
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  Thursday as well.
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  I think it's gonna close at 5PM.
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  There is gonna be some historic home stake artifacts that you will not find anywhere else
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  that have come out of the woodwork from people here in Leed that are gonna be on display and
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  available to purchase at that silent auction.
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  So we're excited for that.
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  There's gonna be a couple different walking tours also on Thursday featuring the Slavonian
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  neighborhood, which is actually Gwen and Julius down off of Main Street.
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  And so we're gonna talk about the history of the people that lived there and when they moved
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  here and kind of their culture culture and their heritage, look at some houses that, that
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  some of those Slovonian people lived in.
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  So that's gonna be at 10:00 or 01:00 on Thursday.
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  And then really, like, the signature event for Thursday is Todd Jones, the director of the
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  Historic Homestake Opera House, and Terry Smith, who is lead historic preservation,
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  researches everything there is to know about Lead.
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  They have gotten together, and they have written a play.
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  But it's really more than a play because they have found historical music that was written by
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  people that were settling here in Lead in the Black Hills, and they are have brought that
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  music forward.
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  Humbletown is going to play this music in this play, and it's gonna be fabulous.
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  It's gonna go from the beginning of lead, you know, when it was founded in 1876.
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  There's going to be historical pictures on display with Humbletown playing this music.
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  There's gonna be actors.
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  They're gonna go over all of the major significant events that happened in lead over
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  time with homestate closing and the lab and subsidence from the lab and pretty much just
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  this, like, awesome whole picture history
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  of
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  the town combined with photos, combined with music.
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  It is a once in a lifetime show.
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  It is written locally, played locally.
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  It is it's really gonna just be really fabulous.
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  And that's at seven.
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  It is a ticketed event, so you can get your tickets at the opera house for that.
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  Yeah.
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  Talk about celebrating the heritage, and I love that that's the start.
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  Celebrating what was old and bringing that into I know that the whole weekend kinda celebrates
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  that, but what a great way to really dig into the history.
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  You speak about talented lead high school alumni.
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  Dylan has to be towards the top of that list no matter what generation we're pulling from.
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  Obviously, part of Humble Town, Friends of the Scene.
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  They've been on our program several times, and one of my all time favorites.
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  My kids were just asking about them the other day, actually.
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  So Thursday sounds like an incredible experience.
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  A lot of new stuff.
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  Right?
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  And typically, the town has always had events, but I don't feel like and especially since the
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  mine closed down, you know, when we were in high school, right, just moving into high
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  school, the mine closes down.
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  I know your dad worked there for a long time.
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  That mine was everything to the town.
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  And when it faded, it lost a lot of the the history.
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  Right?
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  We lost a lot of the people that had ties to the community.
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  So being able to come back now, you know, twenty five years after that point and to
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  celebrate that mining history, although the facilities and the giant hole in the ground
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  isn't going anywhere anytime soon, what is the open cut, that we don't often get a chance to
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  celebrate that culture and those people that founded those and and really worked that land
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  over.
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  So I think it's great that you're kinda starting there and then, moving into a a lot
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  more great stuff.
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  So what does Friday have in store for us, Robin?
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  Friday is going to be jam packed as well, and the alumni art show is still gonna be on
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  exhibit for anyone that wants to check that out at the art center.
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  There is going to be a car show and parade that's gonna be down at Manuel Brothers Park
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  That starts at 9AM, goes till 1PM.
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  It's sponsored by Northland Auto, which is a car dealership we have here in town.
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  They have a ton of classic and vintage cars.
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  So they'll have some of their own cars down there, but also people from the community will
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  have their classic cars.
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  And so there will be a band down there as well during the car show.
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  And the science museum and exhibits at the Sanford Lab Visitor Center will be open for
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  kiddos.
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  So there'll be, you know, there'll be a band, and there'll be a beer garden and the car show
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  kinda out in the Manual Brothers Park parking lot.
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  But then inside the visitor center for kids, there's some hands on learning for different
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  things that relate to surf, which, like you said, Bubba, is the new, underground science
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  lab that has moved into the old mine of Homestake.
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  So so that's kinda cool.
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  Kids can learn about that.
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  And then, really, our main focus for on Friday is the Rock the Hills concert.
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  And so this is actually sponsored by the city of Leed and because it is the big hundred and
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  fiftieth celebration for the city.
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  So we're gonna have four different bands at kind of a once in a lifetime event.
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  Up at Mountain Top, it's gonna be, you know, an open air concert.
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  There's a lot of space up there.
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  It's on the top of the mountain.
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  You can see Terry Peak, and you have these great mountain views.
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  We're bringing in a big production stage, and the doors for that open at eleven.
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  The first band is Bittersweet.
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  They're gonna start at noon and play till two.
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  They're kind of acoustic classic rock, just a two person band.
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  So they're gonna be a great first band.
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  The second band is Brandon Sprague Band.
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  So he's gonna play from three to 04:30.
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  He's kind of bluesy.
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  And then Stereotrip out of Rapid is gonna play from five to seven, and they're gonna kinda do
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  some modern and some classic rock type things.
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  And the main band is Lexington Lab Band, and they are coming out of Kentucky.
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  They are said to be America's number one cover band.
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  And so they're going to come in.
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  They're gonna start at 08:30 and play till 10:30.
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  This is kinda cool, Bubba.
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  I think you'll like it.
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  They bring in they have, like, a group of 10, and they all travel together.
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  And when they come in, they play straight for two hours.
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  They're they don't take a break, but they bring in these band members where they can play
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  heart, and they can play Aerosmith, and they can play the Eagles.
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  They can just it's like listening to classic rock Pandora for two hours with this band
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  that's gonna be here.
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  And you can check them out on YouTube.
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  They they're awesome, and they're actually bringing in the production with them from
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  Kentucky, which we're excited about, and it's gonna be a big show.
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  It's gonna be super exciting.
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  You can get your concert tickets now for that.
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  We are charging $30 for general admission and 50 for VIP.
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  There are only 500 VIP tickets, and we've sold about a 150.
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  The VIP people get a fancy bathroom trailer, which is a cool thing.
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  For some people, it has running water, flush toilets, all of that.
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  And then, also, we'll have a different VIP bar with more options up front for our VIP ticket
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  holders.
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  We are going to have transportation because anybody that's been to LEAD knows we have
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  parking issues.
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  And so people that live in Deadwood, we are gonna run a trolley every half an hour starting
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  at 11AM.
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  So every half an hour, on the hour, and every half an hour, they can catch a trolley up from
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  Deadwood at the Sherman Street parking lot.
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  That's gonna be free of charge.
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  We want Deadwood people to come up here.
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  People you know, we don't want people to have to worry about parking.
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  So they can catch that trolley.
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  If you're staying in Deadwood, live in Deadwood, wanna park in Deadwood.
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  The other option is we're gonna have the lower parking lot of Terry Peak open, and so that's
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  like the dark horse saloon parking lot for anybody that skis.
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  And so people can park there, and we're gonna have school buses that are gonna run from the
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  Terry Peak parking lot to Manuel Brothers Park to Mountaintop.
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  So we'll have vendors and different things down at Manuel Brothers Park.
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  We're also going to have vendors, food, beer, pop and water, kids games, things like that up
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  at the concert.
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  So if there is limited parking or if people don't wanna deal with parking challenges, they
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  can just head on out to Terry Peak, catch the bus in, and then catch the bus back out when
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  they're ready.
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  Yeah.
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  Incredible.
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  And those are the big challenges with a town that was built, on top of a hill.
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  Obviously, we grew up there and dealt with driving it.
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  Both of us probably spun a vehicle or two off the roads in the wintertime, that I can recall
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  anyway.
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  And, you know, driving up and down these hills can be extremely difficult.
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  So how nice to provide an opportunity for people to like, hey.
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  Even if you're coming from out of town, park in Deadwood.
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  We'll come get you.
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  You know, you could probably if you if you show up and you got a little time, go hit a casino,
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  come back down, catch the trolley up, and then being able to so the trolley is just going to
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  the Emanuel Brothers Park, but then you could catch one of the buses from the park and then
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  up to Mountaintop.
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  The trolley is actually gonna just go from Deadwood up to Mountaintop.
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  Okay.
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  Awesome.
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  Straight to the concert.
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  Yep.
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  Fantastic.
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  So yeah.
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  But there's plenty of transportation that you could get from any one of these places.
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  Solving the parking issue, I'm sure, for you guys on the logistical side was one of the
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  biggest challenges.
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  You know, production for bands and everything are are not, without their own challenges as
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  well, but how cool.
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  I mean, we spent a ton of time up there as kids.
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  All of our sports teams practiced up there at some point.
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  We used to have little league baseball up there when we first moved to town in the late
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  nineties.
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  So a lot of memories up there, and and really cool to see that space getting utilized for
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  something amazing.
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  It's gonna be beautiful up there at night underneath the stars on top of the world.
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  Right?
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  The only thing taller than you is Terry Peak off in the distance.
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  It's gonna be absolutely magical up there.
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  So and some great local bands combined with fun to bring in someone from out of town as well to
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  bring something different.
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  Right?
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  I love Brandon Sprague, Stereotrip.
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  Shout out to Margie Gruba and my friend Josh Marquis, big parts of that band, obviously.
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  A a great, great lineup of music, but also bringing in something that nobody's ever seen.
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  And I think sometimes with these local events, that can be something that lacks a little bit.
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  Right?
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  As you often don't have budgets to go out and to seek someone, you know, that may cost a
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  little bit more, but can bring something that nobody in town has ever seen.
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  It's not just, oh, we're going to see so and so's band that we've seen.
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  You know, I've seen Brandon.
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  I can't remember how many dozens of times, and I love it.
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  But we also wanna experience something new.
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  And I think this is a great shift from celebrating the old, celebrating the heritage
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  and the local nature, but also the fact that everyone in the world should love to come up to
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  lead and spend an evening on top of the mountain.
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  Mhmm.
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  Yeah.
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  And that brings us to the big one now, Robin.
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  July fourth, Saturday this year, the timing couldn't be more perfect.
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  Not only is it the hundredth celebration of the Jubilee and the hundred and fiftieth of the
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  city of Leed, but it's also America's two hundred and fiftieth, birthday.
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  So tell me about all the activities going on on Saturday, July 4.
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  Yeah.
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  Saturday is also gonna be a fabulous day.
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  You know, we do, like you said, we have historically had this this Jubilee days.
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  And so Saturday really takes it back to the roots and does all the things that we've always
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  done.
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  So we have, you know, a pancake feed that's hosted by the rod and gun club where people can
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  go down and get pancakes, and then you can head over and partake in the horseshoe tournament.
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  We got have some great horseshoe pits down at our park.
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  They're also gonna have a golf chipping contest that you can golf chip into the open cut at
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  9AM.
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  The Lee Deadwood School District is having an all school reunion this weekend as well, and so
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  their day to get everyone together is Friday or sorry, Saturday, the fourth as well.
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  So they're having a a breakfast for any people that alumni that are in town that register for
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  the all school reunion, and that'll be up at the school.
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  They're gonna do some school tours.
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  You know, our elementary school has been remodeled, and some other things have happened
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  on the school campus.
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  So the school's gonna be hosting some tours.
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  And then at 09:30, they're gonna have, the Live Like Cash Productions is hosting a skate,
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  scoot, bike competition at the awesome skate park that we have here at Manuel Brothers Park,
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  and this is a huge hit.
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  It's just it's grown.
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  There are so many kiddos and adults.
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  It's just really great to get that whole side of the community together as well.
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  And so registration from that's from 09:30 till eleven, and then the event starts at eleven.
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  They're gonna have some vendors down there.
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  They have a emcee, and then they have a skate scoop bike competition.
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  So it's to all ages and scooters, bikes, skateboards, and they give away door prizes.
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  They have judges that judge everybody, and then those, participants get awards.
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  So that's super cool.
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  Even if you don't skate scooter bike, you can come down and watch because it's awesome to see
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  that.
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  And our skate park is pretty cool.
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  It's got a big old bowl in it that that a lot of people won't venture into.
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  But for this event, there will definitely be some big tricks happening.
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  So that's super awesome.
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  Kind of at the same time, at 10:00, we have a Mile High SmackDown volleyball tournament where
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  we have we bring in all the old rivalries back in, and people can, get into that volleyball
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  tournament that'll kinda run all day throughout the day.
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  They're gonna start with some band down at the park too at noon.
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  So there's music on and off from noon until the fireworks.
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  And so that schedule is noon to two is Garrett Holtz, and 02:30 to 04:30 is the Buckskin Cult
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  Trio.
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  And then 05:30 to 07:30 is Unsinkable Rose.
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  08:15 to ten is the eleventh.
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  And then, also, the Northern Hills Community Band, who is this historical band that's been
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  practicing, that's been around, that does multiple concerts throughout the year, they
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  play from eight to nine in front of the Davis Ring, which is a super cool monumental, exhibit
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  that's kinda down by the open cut.
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  So we'll have that band play as well.
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  There's bounce houses for kids.
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  There's vendors.
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  There's all kinds of stuff.
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  It's just like everybody goes to the park, and you see everybody, and it's just about
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  community and hanging out.
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  And then the fireworks show are at 09:30, and this is gonna be the biggest fireworks show
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  that we've had.
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  The chamber has done a great job.
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  They went and kinda asked around the city of Deadwood, pitched in some funds.
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  The city of Lee pitched in some funds because we want this show to be the biggest and the
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  best fireworks show that we've had.
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  So it's gonna be awesome.
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  Well, I will encourage everyone to show up early.
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  Obviously, Garrett Holt used to play with starts and ends.
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  Molly Brown, the unsinkable rose.
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  So many great friends.
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  I mean, I love this small town.
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  Our community is so vibrant.
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  I also saw on there, you're definitely gonna wanna be there at noon on the fourth for the b
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  one flyover because that's gonna be super cool.
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  So don't miss that.
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  If you love big planes and loud noises, it doesn't get any better than a b one flyover.
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  Yep.
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  Yep.
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  The same planes that flew over the Super Bowl possibly.
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  I I know that the Super Bowl, had our wing from Ellsworth Air Force Base and Vaux Elder
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  Flyover.
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  So there you go.
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  Little tie in.
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  You can be to the Super Bowl or you can just come to lead.
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  It's it's up to you.
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  Yeah.
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  We also got some baseball stuff going on during the weekend.
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  I don't know if we we might have skipped over that.
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  Now you have multiple games.
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  You guys have put together some stuff there.
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  So, I don't know if we need to go back or if that's just on Sunday.
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  It's well, it's just on Sunday, like, during this fourth of July thing that we have going
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  on.
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  And so on Sunday, we at 10:00, we are having this vintage baseball game.
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  And so there's kind of been this rivalry between Lean and Deadwood over time.
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  And it if you're not from here, it goes way back, and our schools combined, and some things
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  have happened.
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  And so we're bringing back the rivalry, and we have been having vintage baseball practice for,
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  like, six months now.
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  And it's community members, city leaders, people from both towns have created these lead
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  in Deadwood teams.
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  We have vintage baseball uniforms that were hand sewn by this lady that that's just her
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  jam.
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  She just
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  They look incredible.
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  So, yeah, shout out.
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  Who who did them?
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  I'd have to look.
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  She's out of down south somewhere.
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  And Okay.
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  Yeah.
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  It was it's pretty incredible.
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  And so, actually, our first game there's two games.
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  Our first game is gonna be this Sunday down in Deadwood at the football field, with flag day.
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  It starts at 03:00.
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  And then the second game is gonna be on Sunday, July 5, up at Mountaintop at 10AM.
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  And so not only is it vintage baseball rules, so it's, like, 18 rules.
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  We don't actually use, like, a real baseball glove.
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  We use kind of, like, a padded leather glove because that's all they had back then.
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  And so the rules are slightly a little bit different than they are now, but there's gonna
• 23:17
  be dead with a live actors kinda walking around, kinda talking smack to people.
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  We're gonna have some little newsies selling newspapers.
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  There's gonna be vendors.
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  There's gonna be Dakota Shivers beer being sold.
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  It's gonna be fabulous.
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  And, hopefully, lead comes out on top.
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  Both games.
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  Go lead.
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  So, anyway, so then we have the baseball game.
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  That gets over at noon.
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  And then, actually, July 5 nationwide, like you were talking about, Bubba, with America two
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  fifty, July 5 is community picnic day across The United States.
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  And so we're having a huge picnic up at Mountaintop.
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  The fire department's gonna be up there.
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  They're gonna be grilling for everybody.
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  And then we're asking people to bring a side, come up, share your share your side dish, and
• 24:05
  just hang out with everybody.
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  It's kind of like the wrap up day of these whole celebrations.
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  And then at 2PM, kind of the grand finale event of all of this is Nina McIntyre is hosting the
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  echoes of lead, and this is gonna be she has been collecting historical photos from
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  community members, from the school, from the fast bender photo collection, from Deadwood
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  history, and she has put together this beautiful PowerPoint.
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  It's so emotional, and it's so historical.
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  And it has the culture, and it has families, and it has sporting events.
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  It has it has encaptured the whole history of lead.
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  And at the same time, she plays the piano to this beautiful PowerPoint that is gonna be
• 24:53
  playing, and it's a it's gonna be a once in a lifetime show.
• 24:57
  And so she is fabulous, and she's been working on this for quite a while.
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  This is gonna be at the auditorium up at Mountaintop, so people are up at the school.
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  So they can go from Mountaintop right to the high school auditorium.
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  The event starts at two.
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  It's free to charge.
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  And there's so many pictures in there, and it's just gonna be a whole historical recap of the
• 25:21
  city of Laid, of the community.
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  And at the end of that, we are gonna go over all the different things that are gonna be in
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  the time capsule that we're gonna bury later on this year to be opened in fifty years at the
• 25:34
  city's two hundredth anniversary in 2076 that's gonna have some super cool stuff in it.
• 25:41
  We've been collecting all kinds of things.
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  Like, we took a city of lead staff photo, and we have we're gonna have a program from the
• 25:49
  baseball game, and we're gonna have stuff from the July 4 and Fermilab and the experiments
• 25:54
  happening underground and this whole list of awesome stuff we have going on right now that's
• 25:59
  gonna go in the time capsule, the kids, drawings, and to be opened in fifty years.
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  So The kids are gonna open it up and look at the baseball photos and be like, nothing's
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  changed.
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  Robin, I'm so proud of you, the entire team that's been pulling this together.
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  So many friends that will be there performing and are behind the scenes, and I'm just I've
• 26:23
  never been more proud of my hometown, to see all of this come together.
• 26:28
  No doubt an enormous amount of planning on your guys' side.
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  Kudos to you.
• 26:33
  Thank you for for taking the time to come on with me today to to allow me to be a part of it
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  even though I may not be able to be there in person.
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  No doubt that I get to have this small part.
• 26:44
  So I'm very grateful to you for spending a little time with me today.
• 26:48
  Thank you so much for everything that you're doing for our hometown and our community, and
• 26:53
  thank you for being part of the scene.
• 26:54
  Everyone, make sure you get up to lead on July second through the fifth.
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  There is so much to do.
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  You can find everything out at leadmethere.org.
• 27:04
  That's the chamber website.
• 27:05
  The entire schedule that we just kinda breezed over, a lot more information there.
• 27:10
  Robin, thank you again for coming on the show today.
• 27:13
  Have so much fun.
• 27:15
  I'm sure you'll probably sleep for a month after it's over and recuperate, but we are
• 27:20
  gonna make the best memories out of this, and I can't wait to see all the photos coming in.
• 27:26
  Yeah.
• 27:26
  Thanks for having me.
• 27:27
  It was awesome.