Formality

How wonderful--Mayor James' picnic at Starlight Theatre for the city employees and others with connections with the city--instead of a formal inaugural ball, celebrating his coming into office. As Sly said, "You don't have to get all dressed up in order to meet people." This doesn't mean that all formal dress should be abolished, but there is far too much emphasis on formal wear and formal parties connected with the arts. Enjoyment of the arts is for everyone. At the picnic it was brought out that when Mayor James was in high school he was "in a band that opened for Jefferson Airplane in the late 1960s." Interestingly, with my family, I was driving to the Broadmoor Hotel in Colorado Springs in the late 60s when we noticed that lots of people were going to an adjacent building to see the Jefferson Airplane. We thought it rather strange that so many people were going to view an airplane.