Originally Posted by
petthefabric
I've kept this part of your statement because......It seems this community was more invested in your show than what I've seen at the guilds I've experienced. The floor of this gym caught my eye. It seems to be carpeted. The gyms we used had no carpeting. Also, we could start after school activities on Friday. We'd have it hung in 3-4 hours.
I think the people in small communities tend to be more invested in what goes on. I was a newcomer to the area, but many of the guild members had lived there all their lives and knew just about everyone in town. Directions to get somewhere usually included "turn right at where the XXX used to be" when XXX had moved from that location 30 years ago. Now that I live in a much more populated area I'm finding that there is very little community support for guild activities, possibly because so few people hear about them.
I would guess that the room we used had once been only a gym, but was now used as auditorium/gym/classroom/whatever was needed. It was part of a charter school.