Culture Evening

We enjoyed a ward culture evening with various artistic numbers ranging from dance, piano performance, vocal, recitation (which is different from resuscitation), and for the “extremely well cultured,” a ukulele number.

The number was a medely of 3 songs taking us through the roaring 1920′s with Blue Skies.

People sang this song in the 20′s because it was believed that the good times (blue skies) would never end.

Well, they did end with the crash of 1929, and the Great Depression ensued with 24% national unemployment.

They sang Brother can you Spare a Dime.

A very sad song, very sad.

But the sad times didn’t last forever…in fact there’s something that got people through the bad times: faith and love.

And perhaps a few Monkeys put it best in their song: I’m a Believer

That was the medley of song on the ukulele.

(The uke was made pre-1930 and the hat was Great Grandpa’s).