I recently acquired this program, from the 1931 pageant commemorating the centennial of Spartanburg’s incorporation as a village. My student assistant digitized it recently and I’ve added it to Wofford’s digital repository.
http://digitalcommons.wofford.edu/localhist/11/
The program contains lists of all of the area high schools as of 1931 and the names of each individual from each high school that participated in the pageant.
What’s especially interesting is the topics, or historical scenes the author of the pageant chose to feature. The Dawn of Things Created, In Indian Days, The Hampton Massacre, and In Colonial Days were the first four vignettes. The Battle of Cowpens, featuring Cowpens High School, appropriately enough, came fifth. The Good Old Times of 1810 came next, followed by a vision for Wofford College, featuring students, alumni, and friends of Wofford. After that came Cedar Springs, The Minute Men of 1860, Reconstruction Days, Converse College, and “Over There,” no doubt a tribute to World War I.
We don’t have the script – which might be both instructive and painful to read – but you can download the full program to look at names and some of the songs written for the festivities. And you can read the menu for the dinner as well.
