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A SUPPLEMENT TO THE DAILY NEDRASKAN
Monday, December 2, 1985
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By Richard Cooper
Special to the Daily Nebraskan
Editor's Note: This story
previously ran in last year's
Daily Nebraskan holiday guide.
any great cities boast famous
Bethlehem, Mexico City, and
Christmas pageants: New York,
Minden.
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Minden, Nebraska?
Minden is a small town near
Kearney, with a population of 2,800
mostly of Danish or Swedish
ancestory.
During the past 40 years, the town
has sponsored on the first two
Sundays in December, a most
spectacular Christmas pageant. Good
Housekeeping Magazine said Minden
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the pageant.
The idea for the pageant came
from the Rev. Arthur Johnson in 1946.
Johnson asked Clayton Morey to write
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In 1971 Morey retired, and his son
Ben Morey carried on tne iamiiy
tradition.
"I have been involved in the
pageant almost all my life," Morey
said. "It is a tradition in this town.
The pageant is a play about the
birth of Christ. Most of the main
characters in the play, except for the
soldiers and angels, have been on the
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cast since the first pageant was put
on.
Morev said only one member has
retired, and that is one reason why
the event is such a tradition in
Minden.
"Everybody getrs involved, even
though some of the people don t even
appear in the production, Morey
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parking. It is a community thing."
The soldiers and angels are picked
out every year from the local high
school.
Morey said the play starts
beginning in the Old Testament and
continued through the birth of Christ,
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of the actors has to worry about any
lines.
Morey said his job as director
keeps him busy all year. Workers
must begin decorating the town with
Christmas lights near the first of
October. Morey starts getting the cast
mernbers together during the second
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to put on the show. That total
includes dry cleaning of costumes,
flairs, and other necessities. He said
the town is not charged for
electricity,
"People from all over the country
come to see this how," Morey said.
"Some years we will have hundreds of
PePle cmm& out t0 see the show,
and other years we will have barely
fifty people showing up."
Morey said the pageant has seen
some less-than-solemn moments. He
said that one time between acts, his
father heard screaming in the
courtyard. When the lights came on
for the next act, high school kids
were doing the screams in the midst
of a massive snow ball fight.
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