Rediscovering home: Summer events
Bruce Moats
The land had grown deep green alfalfa. Now it hosts the white elegance of the LDS Church, which on this day played host to the soulful rhythms of Hannah Jackson.
My brothers and I had picked rock, changed irrigation water, cut and stacked hay on the ground under the chairs where I and other audience members sat. That realization hit as I listened to Hannah, only 19, play mostly music of her own making. The land remains, serves yet another purpose and life goes on. That Hannah is the granddaughter of Superiorites Rick and July Seeman, serves as another reminder of how the past connects to the present.
The concert was put on by the Mineral County Performing Arts Council, one of several organizations working to make Mineral County an even better place to live by putting on events. While good ideas are aplenty, it takes people to do the work. A founder of the local cornhole tournament, Richard Mellender said, given the county’s small population, “It is amazing how much this community supports these events.”
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