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Sunday Rock Legacy Project in Colton launching Go Fund Me page

Posted 5/4/20

COLTON -- The Sunday Rock Legacy Project (SRLP) Steering Committee has begun preparing for upcoming summer activities. The committee’s efforts to date have been done mostly via Zoom meetings and …

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Sunday Rock Legacy Project in Colton launching Go Fund Me page

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COLTON -- The Sunday Rock Legacy Project (SRLP) Steering Committee has begun preparing for upcoming summer activities.

The committee’s efforts to date have been done mostly via Zoom meetings and email due to the pandemic.

The SRLP 2020 theme, “100 Years of Progress . . .Equal Rights for All,” provides the basis for several planned historical, theatrical, and educational activities.

Colton Historical Society, Grasse River Players, and Colton-Pierrepont Central School are in their ninth year as collaborators bringing together town of Colton history, an accompanying stage performance, and related educational activities.

This year’s research studies the lives of Colton women who made a difference during the first part of the 20th century, including Maude Hawley who encouraged women to vote in 1920, who attended teacher training and embalming school, and who contributed to her community in other ways. 2020 marks the 100th year since the ratification of the 19th Amendment enfranchising women in the United States, said a press release from SRLP.

Organizers are planning three performances of the musical comedy "The Sparkley Clean Funeral Singers," by Lori Fischer and Don Caffer, at Colton-Pierrepont Central School sometime in late August. Alternative plans are being discussed by the committee including several different venues and date options. Also under discussion is a potential drive-in theater experience.

Annually the cost of project activities exceeds grant funding, so once again the SRLP planners are seeking support for the production of the show and the associated Show Program & Historical Guide, as well as help from CPCS students.

As the committee moves forward, it is pursuing some new avenues of fundraising in light of the economic fallout related to COVID-19. Toward that end, it will kick off fundraising efforts on May 5 with the launch of a GoFundMe page in association with GivingTuesdayNow to help defray costs related to the upcoming musical.

GivingTuesdayNow is a global day of giving and unity to unleash the power of people and organizations to transform their communities and the world. The SRLP will keep fundraising until it meets its goal for the year.

More details will be available on The Sunday Rock Legacy Project page on Facebook.

The project is made possible in part with funds from the Decentralization Program, a re-grant program of the New York State Council on the Arts, administered by the St. Lawrence County Arts Council.