Tea Party on Main Street
SOLD OUT!

Thursday, September 25
11:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m.
El Dorado Civic Center—201 East Central
Drawings!  Door Prizes!  
Live and Silent Auctions!

Brought to you by members of
El Dorado Main Street's Organization Committee

Board of Directors
Learns with Lunch

At the last Full Board Meeting, El Dorado Main Street Board Members had the opportunity to make lunch together. This team-building activity expressed the importance of all of the Main Street committees working together; to look to the President of the organization for advice and support; to look to the Director for the tools they needed to make lunch; and to visualize how the City of El Dorado, the Chamber of Commerce, El Dorado, Inc and Butler County Economic Development are all partners assisting in the whole success of El Dorado Main Street. In a matter of fifteen minutes, full plates of sandwiches with sides and dessert were plated and ready for consumption. This might seem like a long time to make a sandwich, but board members were given no utensils or products to complete the meal unless they communicated through a certain process.

From the Artscape Committee

Brown Bag Luncheon

If you still haven't had the opportunity to enjoy a Brown Bag Lunch at the Coutts Museum, we want to invite you to do so on the third Thursday of each month at noon.

September 16, 2008: Phil Yearout, Singer/Songwriter

El Dorado, Kan. -

Almost 30 years ago, a review of one of Phil Yearout’s concerts said he “sang songs about poor dirty farmers, first loves, trains and the wind in Kansas.”

Today, Yearout laughs and said, “Well, not much has changed.”

The songs may come and go, but the theme remains.

“I like songs that tell a story,” he said. “And the only way to know if the story’s good is to really know what it’s about.”

He’ll bring several of those songs – some old, some new, some borrowed and some homemade – to the Coutts Museum Tuesday for the Brown Bag lunch.

The program starts at noon at the museum, located at 110 N. Main.

This Andover musician has been playing music around these parts since the early ‘70s.

He said he hopes people haven’t heard them all though, and promises to bring a few new ones along.

“Even I get tired of the same old chestnuts,” he said. “But some songs just seem to stick. I’m not sure about the term ‘signature songs,’ but there’s one or two that fit so well they’re like a part of me.”

Yearout doesn’t perform as much as he used to.

“I like to restrict my performances to more discerning audiences,” he said, with a wink and a grin.

“Lately, that’s been mostly close friends, family and especially my granddaughter, Gracie. At 4, she thinks everything I do is great. The Coutts folks fall under the ‘close friends’ category. I really enjoyed my last time there and I’m looking forward to the opportunity to play there again.”

People are invited to bring their lunch and enjoy this free program. It is sponsored by the Coutts Museum, the El Dorado Main Street Artscape Committee and through a grant from the Kansas Arts Commission, a state agency, and the National Endowment for the Arts, a federal agency, which believes that a great nation deserves great art. For more information, call the museum at 321-1212.

"What art offers is space -
a certain breathing room for the spirit."
John Updike

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