The 2006 - 2007 Season
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Dixie Takes Delivery of New 7’ Yamaha Grand Piano
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 Larry Rust, George Winston's Road Manager, presents Stephanie Griffin, Christian Community Action director, with a check from the proceeds of the CD's and merchandise sales during the concert at the Dixie |
Harriet Tubman: The Underground Railroad 
By the Arkansas Arts Center State Services of
Little Rock, Arkansas
In honor of Black History Month, the Dixie Center for the Arts presented the Arkansas Arts Center of Little Rock performing “Harriet Tubman: The Underground Railroad” as the second in its series of school shows. Middle school and high school students from several parishes and southern Arkansas were entertained and informed with this program.
Some Enchanted Evening
Hear the songs of Rodgers & Hammerstein Broadway musicals that have become a part of our lives. Performed by the Springer Theatricals of Columbus, Georgia.
Ruston Community Theatre presents
The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds
directed by Nancy Wallace
The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds was written by Paul Zindel and won a Pulitzer Prize and Obie Award in the 1970s. The drama follows a tortured woman of two teenage daughters, who is as much a victim of her own nature as of the cruel lot which has been given her. Her younger daughter has an intuitive gift for science and her experiment for the science fair proves something beautiful and full of promise can emerge from even the most barren, afflicted soil. This is the timeless lesson of this powerful story.
Russ Town Society Wins Dixie Center for the Arts Volunteer of the Year Award
DCA Board President, Tommy Folk presents the award to 2006 Russ Town President, Allison Ambrose. Also present to accept the award were: Claire Givens (founding member), Jennifer Byrd, Mandy Brown (2007 Russ Town President), Tanya Bickham (founding member), Kim Klug, Candace Moak, and Lisa Nelson. The award will be presented each year and will be known as the “Russ Town Society Volunteer of the Year Award”.
The Russ Town Society was formed in 1997 by Tanya Graham Bickham and Claire Kilpatrick Givens. Their desire was to form an organization to help preserve the history of downtown Ruston… so that it might remain as it was as they remembered it during their growing up years. They held a tea at the Lincoln Parish Museum and invited young women that they thought would want to be a part of this effort. Their membership was limited to 35 members, which was quickly filled. Russ Town Society’s attention was focused from the very beginning on the renovation efforts that were beginning on the Dixie Theater and this purpose and focus has remained the priority now for ten years. They have held various fund raising events, beginning with one of their members giving violin lessons on the stage of the old Dixie, haunted houses at Halloween being held at the Lincoln Parish Park and the Bobby James Gym, to the now very successful “Downtown Delights” which will be held in May again of this year in Downtown Railroad Park. Due to their continuous efforts for the preservation of “Historic Old Ruston” this organization has not only enlightened newcomers to our town to cherish this possibility, but they have led the way in contributions, aimed solely to the restoration of the Dixie Theater--they have netted close to $40,000.
Into the Woods, Jr.--Ruston High School
Presented by Ruston High School students, directed by Lisa Lee-McCalmon
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