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Are you ready to have some fun? Are you ready to put all the negative stuff going on in the world behind you at least for a bit? Well, then let’s do something about it. Yes, you and me (with an assist from some of my friends) and you don’t even have to risk your health. How are we going to do this? By making the most fun, toe-tapping, shower singing, hap-hap happiest playlist ever!
I want you to sit down right now and make your own list of the most fun, upbeat, energizing feel good songs you know and love. I am talking about your own playlist of fun and happy songs. My friends and I have even gone through the trouble of making a starter list to get you thinking. But this is your list, and this is a participatory activity folks.
Back in the 1940s and 50s, McCollum Hall was THE place to be in the Dunbar community. Especially when B.B. King, Louis Armstrong or Duke Ellington came to town.
The bands usually played upstairs in the Art Deco-style building on Martin Luther King Junior Boulevard but the music-loving crowds often spilled outside and into the yard affectionately called Buck’s Backyard (named after businessman Clifford “Buck” McCollum Sr.).
“A lot of people couldn’t afford to go in,” says artist Shari Shifrin, standing in the grass outside of McCollum Hall. “So they would hang out here all night long, sitting back here with a little fire, checkers, chess and just jam along.”