The new Town Hall housed the City clerk and Mayor, Fire department, library and community center with a dance floor.
The Sauk-Suiattle Indian Reservation is in this area, centered near the present-day town of Darrington.
Senator Denton Darrington has a B.S. in Agriculture in 1963 and Post Graduate work from Utah State University.
They have performed at festivals including Seattle’s Bumbershoot Arts Festival, Austin’s SXSW music conference, the Sundance Film Festival in Park City Utah, Oregon Country Fair in Eugene Oregon, Salem Oregon’s “World Music Festival” and Darrington, Washington’s Summer Meltdown.
The song started as a spiritual and was first recorded by John A. Lomax in 1934 at Darrington State Farm (now the Darrington Unit), a prison near Sandy Point, Texas, and sung by "Sin-Killer" Griffin, who claimed authorship.