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ITEM 7 · SCENES PRINTED AS ERAS, PER THE CHECKLIST'S OWN FORM
The checklist's scenes article refuses the snapshot: a town's music and performance life is a succession of circuits, and Walkerton's sorts into three. The town-band era:The school era: the circuit consolidates into the school — the bands and choirs of the school-as-culture-house article above — as the town band's function passes to the institution with the uniforms, the buses, and the calendar. The festival era: the present circuit, in which the town's performance life runs on occasions rather than ensembles — the Fourth's fireworks and Post 189's calendar, the tractor-and-fair visiting culture, the museum's programs (this history whole) — a town that hosts scenes now rather than keeping one. The three eras print as eras, each at its file's strength; the article's work is the succession itself, and the succession is the finding: Walkerton's scene did not die, it changed carriers twice, and each carrier is still findable in the record.
Principal sources: Notable People (the Military Band, 1916); Schools (the school era); this history (the festival course).