71st Annual Ralls Lions Club Rodeo set for Aug. 19-20
RALLS—Festivities for the 71st Annual Ralls Lions Club Rodeo kick off Friday, Aug. 19 at 6 p.m. with the Rodeo Parade in downtown Ralls.
J and D Barbecue will be selling plates of barbecue until 7 p.m. on the downtown square in Ralls. At 8 p.m. the rodeo gets underway at the rodeo grounds.
On Saturday, Aug. 20, in downtown Ralls, there will be the Cotton Boll Festival, which will feature a car show by Must Have Classics, a Pie Eating contest, vendors and a pageant.
‘Ragtown, The Musical’runs through Aug. 27 in Post
POST—“Ragtown, The Musical,” the origin story of the city of Post, is back on the stage of Ragtown Gospel Theater and runs every Saturday at 3 p.m. through August 27.
Brothers Glenn and Chip Polk, founders of Ragtown Gospel Theater, grew up in Post hearing the legendary stories of cereal magnate C.W. Post and his dreams of a utopian city on the South Plains. They heard the tales firsthand from the people who were there alongside C.W. Post in the early part of the last century.
Both brothers have memories of the Golden Jubilee, fifty years after the founding, when many of those early settlers celebrated the anniversary with attending Hollywood celebrities of the day: Danny Thomas, Spring Byington, and Danny Kaye, among others.
Post’s granddaughter, the glamorous Dena Merrill, had just made her 1957 film debut in a movie with Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn. Reigning over it all, including the unveiling of her father’s statue, was the regal Marjorie Merriweather Post, C.W. Post’s only child, and heir to his breakfast food empire.
All those original settlers are gone now, but the Polk brothers are doing their best to assure the unique story of their hometown’s founding is remembered.Tickets are available at the website, www.ragtown. com, or call 1-877-RAGTOWN.
—Ragtown Gospel Theater Facebook page
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