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Saturday, February 27: Annual Sadie Hawkins Dance

Ladies get to ask the men to dance!
Basic Lessons in Hall B:
6:15pm Hustle (before dance)
7:15pm Waltz

Members: $2 off admission for dressing the part.


Dress as your favorite L'il Abner character and prizes will be awarded to the best (two, three - however many) look-alike characters. Pick your favorite character and let's turn the square dance center into Dogpatch USA!! Go here for more info about Sadie Hawkins and L'il Abner. On the "Dogpatch USA" tab at the bottom of this site, there's a photo of a group of characters (not all, but several -- Sadie Hawkins and L'il Abner pictured above).

What is Sadie Hawkins Day? Sadie Hawkins Day is an American folk event which made its debut in Al Capp's L'il Abner strip November 15, 1937. Sadie Hawkins was "the homeliest gal in the hills" who grew tired of waiting for the fellows to come a courtin'. Her father, Hekzebiah Hawkins, a prominent resident of Dogpatch, was even more worried about Sadie living at home for the rest of his life, so he decreed the first annual Sadie Hawkins Day, a foot race in which the unmarried gals pursued the town's bachelors, with matrimony the consequence. By the late 1930's the event had swept the nation and had a life of its own. Life magazine reported over 200 colleges holding Sadie Hawkins Day events in 1939, only two years after its inception. It became a women-empowering rite at high schools and college campuses, long before the modern feminist movement gained prominence. The basis of Sadie Hawkins Day is that women and girls take the initiative in inviting the man or boy of their choice out on a date, typically to a dance attended by other bachelors and their aggressive dates. When Al Capp created the event, it was not his intention to have the event occur annually on a specific date because, it inhibited his freewheeling plotting. However, due to its enormous popularity and the numerous fan letters Capp received, the event became an annual event in the strip during the month of November, lasting the past four decades.

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