Fifty years ago, a recruiter for Stephens College spotted an ad in a Minneapolis newspaper for a theater for lease in Spirit Lake, in the rural northwest corner of Iowa just south of Minnesota and east of South Dakota.
After 50 years, Stephens' unique summer stage program thrives
Stephens students now act in a redone Okoboji Summer Theatre.
Monday, July 23, 2007 | 12:00 a.m. CDT;
updated 11:57 a.m. CDT, Tuesday, July 22, 2008
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