10
Wednesday, June 29, 1988 / University Daily Kansan
Independence Days 1988
Independence celebration promises fun
By Monica Hayde
Kansan staff writer
This weekend, Lawrence residents will take a sten back in time.
At the sixth annual Independence Days festival, they will eat Indian tacos and homemade peach cobbler, race canoes on the Kansas River, talk politics on the front porch, attend concerts and watch a shoot-out.
For three days, July 2-4, Burcham Park, Second and Indiana streets, will be the site of a celebration honoring not only the birth of the United States but also the history of the heartland.
"We're offering a lot of new and different things this year," said Judy Wright, Independence Days executive director. "Independence Days has grown every year."
This year, guitarist Chet Atkins will perform at 7 p.m. Saturday. Atkins, whose latest album is "Stay Tuned," has been recording country, rock and jazz music since the 1940s.
Getting things started Saturday morning is the Free State Run, sponsored by the Lawrence Track Club.
Two races will be run, said Marilyn Hall, club president. A one-mile free fun run will begin at 7:15 a.m. An 8-kilometer race, with an entry fee of $10, will begin at the same time. Both races will begin and end at the Holiday Inn Holldorne, 200 McDonald Drive.
The less-active can watch the Independence Days Parade, which will begin at 9:30 a.m. Saturday at South Park. The parade will go north on Massachusetts Street to 7th Street.
Independence Days will end with a fireworks show and concert by the Lawrence Symphony Orchestra at 10 p.m. Monday.
But many activities, shows and demonstrations will be taking place in Burcham Park between Saturday morning and Monday night.
On Saturday and Sunday, basketball fans will be able to see the sport in a historical context in the play "The Basketball Men," written for Independence Days by Mary-Kate Tews of Lawrence.
The play is about a meeting between two basketball legends: Phog Allen, Kansas coach from 1919 to 1856, and James Naismith, Kansas coach from 1838 to 1907, who is credited with inventing the game.
Tews said the play was not inspired by the Jayhawks' national championship win in April.
"I started the play in September, so I take full credit for them winning the Final Four," she said with a smile.
Political enthusiasts also will find something of interest at Independence Days. The Lawrence-Douglas County League of Women Voters will bring state and local politicians to Burcham Park to participate in old-style political discussions called
Front Porch Politics.
Susan Catts, chairwoman of the league's voter service committee, said the following politicians would be among those taking part: State Rep. Jesse Branson, D-Lawrence, who is seeking re-election to her 44th district seat in the state legislature; Mike Dupree, who is running as a Democrat for the Kansas Senate in the 2nd District; and Phil Heinhardt, who is running as a Republican against Jim Slattery for U.S. Representative in the 2nd District.
Local artists, woodworkers and wheatweavers, a gunsmith and others will be selling and displaying crafts and art or demonstrating their skills.
Independence Days visitors also will see concerts by Last Kansas Exit, Allerd Packer Memorial Band, the Mackeyer-Hunt Band, New Grange Music Center and City Six. Also, there will be 33 food boots, Wright said.
took booklets.
An adult ticket costs five dollars.
That price covers admission to the festival all three days. Tickets can be bought at 26 Lawrence businesses or at the gate. Children ages 5 to 12 get in for $3, and children under five will be admitted free. Tickets are available for the Monday fireworks show for $2.
A free shuttle service will be available to transport people from downtown to the park. No parking will be available in the park.
Gnarlies come out for festival
Sandy Dale, Lawrence artist, displays her friends the Gwarfs. The Gwarfs and their smaller cousins, the Gnarlies, will be appearing at Independence Days on July 24.
By Monica Hayde
Kansan staff writer
They are faithful friends and servants. They help get rid of bad luck, bad dreams and unclear thoughts. They come in many shapes and sizes, and they will be at the Independence Day festival in Lawrence July 2-4
They are Gnarlies, and they were created by Lawrence artist Sandy Dale. Or rather these mixtures of dwarfs and gnomes are "captured" from their woodland hiding places but into clothes to make them visible.
To Dale, a Gnarlie is real. She calls them benevolent woodland spirits, and even talks to them. She may spend hours sculpting their facial features or sewing clothes for them to wear, but in a part of her mind Gnarlies are real, independent creatures that have existed for thousands of years.
She sculpts the faces, hands and feet of the elf-like figures from a foam-latex material; the rest of the Gnarlie is made of the clothing material.
"They like to wear children's clothes," she said. "They disguise themselves as children because they think they can find a home that way."
Dale makes several "breeds" of Gnarlies. Among them are Gaelic Gnarlies, North American Prairie Gnarlies and Gwarfs. Gwarfs are larger than the rest and are distant cousins of the Gnarlies, Dale said.
Each Gnarlie has individual facial features and its own benevolent powers.
Schedule of events
"But we only sell the suits, you understand." Dale said. "We give you the naked Gnarlie inside the suit."
Row upon row of North American Prairie Gnarlies sit on a shelf in Dahlgren Canyon.
A North American Prairie Gnarlie is about five inches high and costs $15
dale takes her Gnarlies to festivals across the country, and she partici-
Free State Run, 8-kilometer
and 1 mile Holiday, Inn
Saturdav. July 2
7:15 a.m.
and Tiffin - Holiday Inn Holidome, 200 McDonald Drive 9:30 a.m.
Independence Days Parade
- Independence Days Parade
  - Massachusetts Street
10 a.m.
Last Kansas Exit — Tent Show
■ Alferd Packer Memo
String Band — Riverfront
Stage
■ Flip Philip, rope walker
Shady Grove Stage
10:30 a.m.
- Mike Helvey - Shelter
Theater
Basketball Men: Naismith and Allen - Tent Show
Mobile Mesner Puppets Shady Grove Stage
Second Christian Church Gospel Choir — Riverfront Stage
Eunice Stallworth — Shelter Theater
Lawrence Gunfighters' Association
Lawrence Arts Center Popcorn Co. — Shelter Theater Noon
New Grange Ensemble - Tent Show
Red Show
Glenn Ohrlin, cowboy
Glenn Ohrlin, cowboy balladeer — Riverfront Stage
Mike Helvey — Shady Grove Stage
Judy Nichols, stories Shelter Theater
Lawrence Arts Center Summer Youth Theater — Shelter Theater
Independence Days Lyceum - Tent Show
Lawrence Barn Dance Association — Riverfront Stage
Flip Philip, rope walker Shadv Grove Stage
Alferd Packer Memorial String Band — Shelter Theater
String Band — Shelter Theater
■ Lawrence Gunfighters'
Association
Lawrence Arts Center Popcorn Co. — Shelter Theater 2 p.m.
Association
1:30 D.m.
F. B. Samuel — Tent Show
P.B. Samner Tent Show
Last Kansas Exit — Riverfront Stage
New Grange Ensemble -- Shady Grove Stage
Mobile Mesner Puppets - Shelter Theater
Judy Nichols, stories Shelter Theater
Basketball Men: Naismith and Allen — Tent Show
Allerd Packer Memorial String Band - Riverfront Stage
pated in Independence Days three years ago, but the Gnarlies looked different then.
"It was a little different breed of Snarlie that I was capturing then," she said.
Eunice Stallworth — Shelter Theater
Lawrence Gunfighters'
Association
New Grange Ensemble Shelter Theater
Glenn Ohrlin - Shady Grove Stage
Lawrence Barn Dance Association - Tent Show
■ Second Christian Church Gospel Choir — Riverfront Stage
F. B. Samuel - Shady Grove Stage
Lawrence Arts Center Summer Youth Theater — Shelter Theater
Mobile Mesner Puppets Shelter Theater
Glenn Ohrlin, cowboy balladeer - Tent Show
Flip Philip, rope walker - Shady Grove Stage
■ Enuice Stallworth — Shelter Theater
Halloran Lawrence Gunfighters' Association
- Tug-of-war competition
6 p.m.
- Catfish cook-off competition
Tent Show
- "The Face on the Barroom Floor," Kansas Summer Theater — Tent Show
Mackender-Hunt Band and Chet Atkins - Riverfront Stage
Sunday, July 3
Alferd Packer Memorial String Band — Tent Show
Last Kansas Exit - Riverfront Stage
Flip Philip, rope walker — Shady Grove Stage 16:30 a.m.
Mike Helvey - Shelter Theater
Basektball Men: Naismith and Allen — Tent Show
Lawrence Barn Dance Association - Riverfront Stage
Mobile Mesner Puppets — Shady Grove Stage
- Doug Sonntag Pickin' Puppets — Shelter Theater
Lawrence Gunfighters' Association
11:30 a.m.
Lawrence Arts Center Popcorn Co. - Shelter Theater Noon
K. C. Cajun Band - Tent Show
New Grange Ensemble Riverfront Stage
River City Six - Shady Grove Stage
Dale came up with the idea and name for Gnarlies about five years ago when she was looking at gnared tree roots in an Oregon forest.
"They were gnarly," she said. "It looked like something would live
Summer Youth Orchestra
— Shelter Theater
12:30 p.m.
Lawrence Arts Center Summer Youth Theater — Shelter Theater
Independence Days Lvceum — Tent Show
Lyceum - Teen Show
Bulgarska Kilika, folk dancers - Riverfront Stage
■ Flip Philip, rope walker - Shady Grove Stage
Doug Sonntag Pickin' Puppets — Shelter Theater
pets Shooter
Lawrence Gunfighters'
Association
Lawrence Arts Center Popcorn Co. — Shelter Theater 2 p.m.
River City Six — Tent Show
Last Kansas Exit — Riverfront Stage
Alferd Packer Memorial String Band — Shady Grove Stage
Mobile Mesner Puppets — Shelter Theater
3:20 p.m.
Summer Youth Orchestra Shelter Theater
p.11.
Basketball Men: Naismith and Allen — Tent Show
Second Christian Church Gospel Choir — Riverfront Stage
Mobile Mesner Puppets Shady Grove Stage
Lawrence Arts Center Summer Youth Theater — Shelter Theater
Lawrence Gunfighters'
Association
New Grange Ensemble Shelter Theater
K. C. Cajun Band — Riverfront Stage
Call 864-4810
Flip Philip, rope walker Shady Grove Stage
Bulgarska Kilka, folk dancers — Tent Show
Mike Helvey - Shelter Theater
River City Six — Riverfront Stage
Mobile Mesner Puppets Shelter Theater
Mike Helvey - Shady Grove Stage
Lawrence Barn Dance Association - Tent Show
New Grange Ensemble Shelter Theater
Lawrence Gunfighters Association
Special Student and Youth Fares to EUROPE
Monday, July 4
Fireworks and concert featuring Full Circle and Lawrence Symphony Orchestra
6 p.m.
Call 864-4810
STAYINATIONS OW RT
LONDON $250 $432
PARIS 260 475
MILAN 300 540
MADRID 265 490
COPENHAGEN 310 600
OSLOSTOCKHOLM 310 600
HELSINKI 335 620
from New York on Scheduled Airlines!
"Of course, I didn't realize it was a California skateboard term. But the name does fit. It either means awesome or, as my son says, textural, which they are. They are awesome and textural."
there.
CALL OR WRITE FOR OUR SPECIAL FARES TO THE
SO. PACIFIC, AUSTRALIA, SO. AMERICA
Above fares also apply from Washington, D.C. to London and Paris on non-stop service. Add fares from Boston, Chicago, Pittsburgh and New York.
Story Idea?
Photo Idea?
Part of the worldwide STA Travel Network
17 E. 45th St., St. Louis, MO 10017
612-986-9470
WHOLE WORLD TRAVEL
WE SPECIALIZE IN AROUND-THE-WORLD
ITINERARIES FOR STUDENTS.
If you come FNB for a student loan we might give you a PLUS or a SLS.
**Translation:** You may be able to borrow from FNB (First National Bank) even if you don't qualify for a GSL (Guaranteed Student Loan), because our newest student loan opportunities were assigned just for you.
Translation:
With a PLUS (Parent Loan to Undergraduate Students) or an SLS (Supplemental Loan for Students), you or your parent can borrow up to $4,000 annually with repayment terms that are very flexible.
And getting your money at FNB takes a lot less time than you might think.
So drop by FNB, where students are always WLCM (welcome), no matter what their banking needs.
The First
THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK OF LAWRENCE
Nuth & Massachusetts (913) 601-1152
Opportunity Land