There was a clear lack of youth at the dance and it was targeted and ran for older adults. The youngest people there besides myself were in their late forties. You can see the remnants of the dance culture where community dances were the largest social function in towns. To borrow an anthropological term, the Eagles lodge is like a social network of people. “A set of relationships activated for a particular end.” The particular end of this network was for people to get together and have a good time. There was everything you needed there in order to have a good time: gambling; the company of others; food, drinks and alcohol, music and dancing. What else do you need to have fun? “A network is a person-dependent kind of social system which depends on continuous activity to be reproduced” The continuous activity in this case is the weekly dance and bingo put on and hosted by the Eagle Lodge and the Women’s Auxiliary. The group is so close knit that people notice when regulars at these events are missing. If they are missing and they haven’t heard anything they go check on them to see if they are okay. The regulars at these events care about each other. It is almost like kinning, one big family who looks out for each other at the