“Storming of the legislature”

To publicize the Secession, St. George residents dressed up in costume as Southern Confederates—including one Rhett Butler and one Scarlett O’Hara from Gone with the Wind—for what choreographer Roy Fitzel called the “storming of the legislature,” entailing “Butler,” reading off a Secession proclamation before the crowd performed “I Wish I Was in Dixie.” | Source: Senate Floor Debate Recordings collection (series 2215). Disc 51, folder 17, box 36, Senate Floor Debate Recordings collection. Courtesy of the Utah State Archives. https://archives.utah.gov/research/inventories/22515.html.
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