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COMPILED BY LAURA WOLFF SCANLAN
A Roundup of Activities Sponsored by the State Humanities Councils
ALABAMA
Teachers from across the country gather for “Stony the Road We Trod: Alabama’s Role in the Civil Rights Movement,” an NEH Landmarks of American History and Culture workshop at historic sites in Birmingham from July 10 to 16. Workshop leaders include Martha Bouyer, Glenn Eskew, Charzetta Richardson, Joanne Bland, Ruby Shjuttlesworth-Bester, Doug Jones, and Carolyn McKinstry, a survivor of the Sixteenth Street Church bombing. Participants will hear lectures, travel to Tuskegee, Montgomery, and Selma, and view archival film footage. ARIZONA
The Arivaca Old School House hosts “From China to Mexico: A Journey of Decorative Arts” on Aug. 13, a presentation tracing the history of Mexican talavara design and Manila shawl surface embroidery. Elsie Szecsy, author of The Cadet Nurse Corps in Arizona: A History of Service, gives a talk at Arizona Humanities in Phoenix on Sept. 15 about the establishment of the U.S. Cadet Nurse Corps during World War II and their work in the state. “On the Road with California Humanities: The Pulitzer Prize Centennial Campfires Initiative” presents two events featuring Pulitzer Prize winners: “California’s Water: Rivers, Oceans, and Our Future,” with journalist Bettina Boxall at the National Steinbeck Center in Salinas on Aug. 27 and “The Farmworker Movement in California: From Chavez Onwards,” with author Miriam Pawel at the Fresno Art Museum on Sept. 28. COLORADO
Chautauqua performances include the High Plains Chautauqua “The Power of Inspiration,” featuring historic portrayals of Thomas Jefferson, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Betty Friedan, St. Francis of Assisi, Herman Melville, Michelangelo, Martin Luther King Jr., Catherine the Great, and William Shakespeare at Aims Community Col 38 SUMMER 2016
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CALIFORNIA
ALEXANDER ROSS’S 1945 POSTER ILLUSTRATES A TALK ON THE CADET NURSE CORPS IN ARIZONA.
lege in Greeley from Aug. 2 through 6, and Two Rivers Chautauqua “Characters Forged in Conflict,” featuring Jefferson Davis, Abraham Lincoln, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Nikita Khrushchev at the Cross Orchards Historic Site in Grand Junction on Sept. 16 and 17. As part of the Pulitzer Prize centennial, the Bud Werner Memorial Library in Steamboat Springs continues its reading and conversation series “The
American West as Living Space” on July 25, Aug. 15, and Sept. 12. Additional programs will be held at Carbondale Branch Library and Vail Public Library during August and September. FLORIDA
“Water/Ways,” the Smithsonian traveling exhibit, is on display at the High Springs Historical Society from July 16 through Aug. 27, and Curtiss Mansion Museum in Miami Springs from Sept. 3 through Oct. 22.