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Snapshots and contact sheets from the front row, the back lot and the van. Most came as negatives and contact sheets; the archive scanned every frame.

  • Black-and-white flash photo: a teenage band plays on a small wooden stage in a grange hall under a banner painted with stars and a lightning bolt, kids crowded at the front.

    Feed Store Saints on the Grange stage

    Photograph · April 9, 1993

    Shot from the front row at the April 9 show. The hand-painted banner behind the band still hangs in the Grange.
  • Color flash photo from the stage: teenagers in flannel shirts pack a wood-paneled lodge hall with their arms raised, tin cans stacked by the door.

    Front row at the Elks Lodge

    Photograph · December 3, 1994

    The food bank benefit, from the stage looking out. The cans are stacked by the door on the left.
  • Color photo: three young women load amplifiers and a drum kit into an old white van in a gravel driveway in early morning light.

    Ditch Lilies loading the van

    Photograph · June 1995

    Leaving for a weekend of shows in three towns. The van was borrowed from Ana’s uncle and came back with a new dent.
  • Black-and-white photo: a teenage skateboarder flies above a homemade plywood ramp behind a feed store while friends watch from hay bales.

    Ramp jam behind the feed store

    Photograph · August 10, 1991

    Skaters and bands shared the back lot most Saturdays that summer. The ramp was built from the feed store’s old pallets.
  • Black-and-white flash photo: teenagers pack a low basement, singing along to a band playing in the corner next to a water heater.

    Mill Street basement show

    Photograph · October 17, 1992

    Eighty people in a basement built for twenty. The landlord never found out.
  • Color photo: four young musicians grin on the wooden steps of the grange hall, holding two trombones and two trumpets.

    Potluck Riot’s horn section

    Photograph · July 2003

    Two trombones and two trumpets on the Grange steps before a summer show.
  • Black-and-white photo: a teenager with short hair feeds paper into a big photocopier in a library, a stack of flyers beside them.

    Copying flyers at the library

    Photograph · November 1994

    Dee Ramirez at the library copier, ten cents a page. Nearly every flyer in box 7 came out of this machine.
  • Color photo: a four-piece band plays under warm light on the stage of a veterans hall while the audience sits on rows of folding chairs.

    Grain Elevator at the VFW

    Photograph · November 13, 1999

    The audience sat on folding chairs, as the flyers always asked.

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