Ucross on the 3rd of July

Look up the Ucross Foundation and you'll see where I spent most of
yesterday. There were a couple thousand people, a great band I need to
find out the name of (who played such crowd-pleasers as "Trailer Park
Fire," "All Night Chicken Trucker," and "Mama Was a Roughneck"), good
food sold by the Buffalo FFA, and an impressive half-hour fireworks
display to cap the evening. Pretty good for Ucross, population 24.

The photo here is pretty tame. As the night built up steam, the grass
before the stage tent had probably 200
People dancing with great enthusiasm. My question is where did those
hay farmers learn to twirl their partners like that?

The Foundation is an artist residency program that hosts visual
artists, writers, and performing artists, and the town got its name
from the original ranch (whose symbol was, you guessed it, the letter
U combined with a cross). The cottonwood trees were absolutely snowing
down fluffy stuff all day long.