by Sinclair Hamilton
The Hancock Arts Council celebrated the 25th Anniversary of our founding at the end of last month. Mayor Dan Murphy at that time, suggested the formation of the Arts Council in the year 2000. Our first event was a Winter Festival. We identified a need for a performing arts center and began planning and finding funds to renovate the auditorium at Town Hall. We finished renovating the auditorium in 2007 and our opening concert was in November of that year. That concert included: The Middle Senior High School Band, Tori Anderson and Possum Holler, Scenes from the musical Oklahoma by the Southern Fulton High School, music by the Arts Council Band and a recitation by Lowell Younker about an outhouse which we referred to as a talk on architecture and chemistry.
