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An afternoon show on the deck of the half-pipe. The city loaned a generator and the fire department came to watch.

The release show for Silo, the band’s first tape. The flyer asked everyone to bring a chair, and most people did.

Admission was three dollars or three cans of food. The lodge sent 640 cans to the county food bank the next Monday.

The first Ditch Lilies show, in the basement of a rented house on Mill Street. The flyer gives the address only as “the green house, knock loud.”

Dee cut the big letters out of a seed catalog and copied two hundred of these at the library, ten cents a page. The show drew 212 people, the most the Grange ever let in.

Eight people, a four-piece horn section and a van that broke down in every town. Ska-punk for church basements and backyard parties, and the last band to play the Grange before it closed for repairs.

A slow, quiet four-piece who asked audiences to sit down. At their first Grange show the hall turned off the kitchen fridge so the songs could be heard.

A three-piece started by Josie Park, Ana Cruz and Wren Delgado in a garage on Mill Street. They made their own zine, Pull the Weeds, and gave it away at every show.

Four kids from the Harlow feed store who learned three chords in the back lot and played every all-ages room in the valley. Their tape Live at the Grange sold out its first hundred copies in a week.