The Raincoats were a British experimental post-punk all-female band inspired after vocalist/guitarist Ana da Silva and vocalist/bassist Gina Birch saw the punk band The Slits perform. As an early admirer wrote, "the Raincoats offered a completely different way of doing things, and all the books about punk have failed to realize that these women were involved for no other reason than they were good and original." On their second album, "Odyshape", the Raincoats employed a diverse selection of cheap second-hand instruments such as the balophone, kalimba and gamelan, and the album incorporated British folk, dub bass lines, polyrhythmic percussion and elements of free jazz among other world music influences. Its eclectic mix of musical genres has been described as one of the "great lost moments of women-in-rock". Kurt Cobain of Nirvana was a passionate fan of the band and listed the Raincoats' debut album as his 20th most favourite album.
The Starbuck Consolidated School District was organized in August 1909. The 10-acre school site bordering the Lasalle River was purchased for $1,000. In 1910 a two-storey building was constructed of white bricks on a stone foundation. It featured four classrooms, two on each floor, as well as a laboratory, a room for “storage of chemical and physical apparatus,” and a library. Two playrooms were located in the basement, along with two lavatories, a forced-air furnace room, coal storage room and storeroom. The total cost of construction was $17,000; it opened in mid-November 1910.
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