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1948–2026
As its own article, separated from the buildings — and on this ground the road arrived as the schoolhouse entertainment, not the touring company. No Chautauqua assembly, lyceum course, opera company, or professional touring production is documented in any room in Clay or Harris township in any source reached — the test was run against the Tribune archive's open doors, the Granger Community Church and PHM event records, and the township press as preserved in the St. Joseph County Public Library's Michiana Memory collection, and the professional road leaves no Granger stop in any of them. What the road looked like at township size stands in that collection's own pages: The Township News of October 21, 1948, carries the Granger section's autumn — the PTA's Halloween party for the school children, with its grand march and entertainments, in the schoolhouse, at PTA expense, the Camp Fire Girls' paper drive beside it. That is the documented touring record of the farm township: entertainment made by the room's own users, in the township's only public room, with no company brought in from outside in any record reached. Granger Community Church itself inverted the pattern in time: born as a tenant in a cinema, it became a producer whose conferences and media reached outward nationally — but that is the church's own work, carried in Religion, not the road's. Verdict: the touring article for this ground is one schoolhouse party in 1948, documented whole, and a stated negative for everything larger.
From The Township News, October 21, 1948 (the Granger section), Michiana Memory, St. Joseph County Public Library; the Penn Bands compiled history and the Morris Center record for the boundary touring lines; Religion for Granger Community Church's producing course.