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Highland Pk group
to perform for
Port Huron Toppers
HIGHLAND PK - Sonny
C. and Liquid Smoke Band
will perform at the 47th an­
nual Topper Sportsman Club
Dinner dance Ball, according
to ovella Dozier, manager.
The event will be in Port
Huron, Saturday, Sept. 12,
startmg at 7 p.m.
The Topper portsman
Club was founded in 1941 by a
handful of Port Huron citizens
concerned with the lack f
entertainment in the com­
munity.
Only two of the original
members survive, Pursey Jack­
son and ted Collins.
The Highland Park group
performed last year for th
Toppers and are the only
group to be asked to repeat,
Dozier said.
For ticket information, call
836-2422. Tickets are 25 p r
person, which includes dinner.
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Breaking the Archie
Bunker stereotype
omething novel happened
in Ypsilanti and it moved t
Flint's Whiting Auditorium on
unday, eptember 6.
Automobile workers in Y p­
silanti formed a theatre group
called the Workers' Concept
Theatre which staged a com­
memorative drama of Flint's
historic Sit Down Strike called
"When You Strike Flint..."
The director of the play,
Cheryl Buswell-Robinson, an
inspector at the, General
Motors Hydromatic Transmis­
sion plant in Willow Run, says
tht workers' Theatre is dif­
ferent and important.
"The reason for our ing
is not to do South Pacific, it is
not to do Funny Girl, it's not
to do The Sound Of Music.
It's to tell the stories of our
lives," she said. "The popular
media don't tell the stories of
our lives. They depict a per­
ception of our lives that may
or may not be accurate. By
and large, when workers' cul­
ture is shown in the media, it's
a caricature: the Archie
Bunker type.
The play has two acts. The
first act is a historical depic­
tion of the 1937 Sit down
Strike at General Motors as
seen through the eye of two
families: the Washington's, a
family of outhern Blacks who
have migrated to the orth in
order to escape both the
racism of outhern Jim Cro
and Sharecropping. Th
Mahoneys, immigrants who
ar fleeing Europ 's caste
form of racism and Ireland's
special form of poverty: the
potato blight.
The play empha ize th 1
lidarity is imp rtant in th
midst of struggle, that hope i
needed in the mid t 0
de pair, and that bro en
familie need not b the result
of economic hard time .