Rare Find: Copy of 1940 Du Quoin Music Fest Program
</element><element id="paragraph-1" type="body"><![CDATA[Retired Du Quoin music director Jon Montgomery has forwarded photos of the 1940 Du Quoin Music Festival program to the newspaper and to Tom and Bill Åtwood, sons of the late, great DTHS music director A.T. Atwood.
These are from the collection of Jason Hill of Du Quoin, gifted local photographer and archivist of all things great about Du Quoin.
The cover of the program for the third annual Du Quoin Music Festival includes a photo of festival queen Jessie Marie Daniels. The fall festival was held in October 1940. Atwood was the director and was also the founder of the storied summer Egyptian Music Camp in Du Quoin.
The Du Quoin Evening Call was one of the camp's sponsors. The page says entertainment of participating band members throughout the day and at the military ball staged in the evening is in charge of Miss Catherine Park, Dean of Women at the Du Quoin Township High School.