Replying to a message of Richard Webb to Ardith Hinton:

 RW> Folks who don't come from a culture that values volunteerism
 RW> sometimes don't understand, but when they discover the
 RW> rewards they're easy to convert.  Most of mine happens
 RW> these days from my radio room instead of in music or sound
 RW> reinforcement.  Remind me someday to tell you about a
 RW> performing arts education center we were endeavoring to get
 RW> off the ground in an old barn which had been a variety of
 RW> other things over the years.  It took a good year or better
 RW> out of my life, and I was really disappointed when the
 RW> board decided to throw in the towel.

Heh.  A couple of decades ago a bunch of amateur actors & friends
converted an old barn into a theater.  Their productions were quite
popular, even though the barn was located (just off Nebraska Highway
1) about five miles from the nearest town (which is Manley, followed
by Weeping Water, the place is a good 50 miles south of Omaha - which
IMO is not nearly far enough).  They called themselves the "Born in a
Barn Players" and got fairly good reviews.  Note that all of the carpentry/
renovations and stage sets and everything else was done with volunteer
labor and donated supplies and equipment.  After about ten years the farm
was sold and the theater ceased operations a couple of years after that; the
new owners didn't really cotton to all those visitors in their yard.  AFAIK
it's back to being a barn now.

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