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Subject: Chautauquas and summer fun...
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I plucked this from an on-line NEH newsletter, thinking that it might be of
interest to some of you...
CHAUTAUQUAS AROUND THE COUNTRY
It's summer and time to gather under the big tent to interact with
period-clad scholars who bring important figures and eras in American
history to life. Called "chautauquas" after the 19th-century cultural
movement that began on the shore of New York state's Lake Chautauqua, these
engaging public programs for the whole family are again traveling this
summer to communities in many parts of the nation, thanks to the work of
several state humanities councils. See the following listing for themes and
schedules of events near you:
The Great Plains Chautauqua Society, Inc. (North Dakota, South Dakota,
Nebraska, Kansas, Oklahoma and Iowa state humanities councils) sponsors
"Behold Our New Century: Early 20th-Century Visions of America," with
scholars portraying social activist Jane Addams, Andrew Carnegie, American
Indian physician Ohiyesa (Charles A. Eastman), Theodore Roosevelt and Booker
T. Washington: http://www.gp-chautauqua.org/.
Heartland Chautauqua (Missouri and Illinois state humanities councils) will
explore life during the Civil War through the stories of Union spy Elizabeth
Louisa Van Lew, Louisa May Alcott, Sojourner Truth, William Tecumseh
Sherman, and black soldier A. A. Burleigh:
http://www.umsl.edu/community/mohuman/chautauq.htm and
http://www.prairie.org/chacha/hartcha.html.
The New Hampshire Humanities Council looks at the shaping of New England
identity through "appearances" by Abigail Adams, Ralph Waldo Emerson,
William Lloyd Garrison, Mark Twain, Daniel Webster, and Phillis Wheatley:
http://www.nhhc.org/chautauqua/index.html.
The Nevada Humanities Committee sponsors chautauquas in Las Vegas, North Las
Vegas, Reno, Pahrump, and Boulder City with portrayals of Theodore
Roosevelt, Margaret Sanger, Reinhold Niebuhr, Eleanor Roosevelt, Mary McLeod
Bethune, J. Robert Oppenheimer and others:
http://www.unr.edu/nhc/index.html.
Susan Veccia, Project Manager
Educational Services
National Digital Library Program
Library of Congress
email: svec@loc.gov voice: 202/707-6151 fax: 202/252-3173
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