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Thank you for this information. It sounds like a fun summer activity. Last
year I called and got permission to videotape a presentation.Sybil
At 11:05 AM 6/3/99 -0400, you wrote:
>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.
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>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.
>
>
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>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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