Monthly E-News from Michael Bouman, Executive Director
Missouri Humanities Council
Contents:
2005 Program Bureau is Open
We're now in the year of "America The Bountiful" as our program theme across the state. The bureau is taking applications for programs, and funding is set aside for every region of Missouri. Please visit our web page to see the new listings.
http://www.mohumanities.org/programs/speakers/index.htm
Tuesday Nights at "The Pony"
Now
entering its seventh season, the "Tuesday Night Talks" at the Pony
Express Museum in St. Joseph represents a noteworthy and successful decision
by a "national" institution to see if it has a "local" clientele.
When more than a hundred people show up on a wintry night to attend a program,
you know the event has succeeded! All programs take place at the Pony
Express Stables on Tuesday nights at 7:00 p.m. Admission is free.
January 11: Ruth Rother speaks about "Underground Railroad Maps Through Quilts"
January 18: Greg Higginbothem speaks about Frank James.
January 25: The incomparable Bill Worley presents is first-person impersonation of "Harry S Truman."
February 1: John Marks Lambertson of the Frontier Trails Museum talks about "The Oregon-California Trail."
February 8: Kay Russell speaks about the Confederate Memorial Home.
February 15: Peggy McDonald speaks about Martha McDonald, daughter of the first doctor in Buchanan County.
The Women of the John Wornall House
In
1860, John Wornall was listed by the Kansas City Enquirer and Star
as one of 195 most "Solid Men of Jackson County." During the
1864 Battle of Westport, both Confederate and Union armies occupied the sturdy
brick farmhouse and used it as an emergency field hospital. This winter
and spring, the John Wornall House Museum at 6115 Wornall Road (south of Country
Club Plaza), will attract visitors with a series of new exhibits in every room
of the house. The new displays and programs will begin on February 1 and
continue through the end of May. There will be special programs one Saturday
a month on the lives of women of different societal ranks in the 1880s.
Hours of operation are Tuesday through Saturday from 10 to 4, Sundays from 1 to 4. Admission is $4 for adults, Children age 5-12, $3, Children 4 and under, free. For more information, contact the Wornall House Museum at (816) 444-1858.
Fred Harvey and "America The Bountiful"
This year's Chautauqua season introduces the theme of "America The Bountiful" in connection with our tour of the Smithsonian exhibit, Key Ingredients. The theme also resonates with an initiative of the National Endowment for the Humanities titled, "We The People." Our Chautauqua looks at the notion of American bounty as connected with natural wealth, human hope, and social conflict over how we slice the bountiful pie. The tour begins in Pike County, location of the international fruit tree business, The Stark Bros. Nursery, continues in Osage Beach, and concludes in Diamond, Missouri, birthplace of George Washington Carver.
We will highlight one of the five Chautauqua scholars in each of the coming e-news issues. This month we introduce historian Bill Worley, who has written a note about Fred Harvey and the care and feeding of travelers in the West.
http://www.mohumanities.org/E-News/Jan05/harvey.htm
For more information about the Harvey Company, begin with this web site:
Governor's Humanities Awards - Who Deserves Them This Year?
Each year the Governor of Missouri and the Missouri Humanities Council celebrate the accomplishments of people who have made exceptional contributions to our understanding of Missouri, its people, and its stories. These awards are based on nominations from the public; without your recommendations, there are no awards! April 30 is the deadline.
The awards recognize a variety of achievements. A Community Heritage Award recognizes a person who has made a special contribution to a community’s understanding of its heritage. The Public Involvement Award recognizes a person who has been exemplary in developing greater public interest in the activities of a museum, a historic site or house, or historical society, or who has generated exceptional public interest in history or literature in some other way. The Excellence in Secondary Education Award recognizes one or more teachers of English, history, languages or social studies, grades 9-12 in public or private Missouri schools. The Book Award recognizes an individual or group whose book has increased our understanding and appreciation of Missouri’s history and culture, regardless of publisher or the author’s place of residence. Multiple awards may be given in each category.
Nomination forms are available on the Missouri Humanities
Council web site at http://www.mohumanities.org
or by calling Terrie Young at the Council office at (800) 357-0909.
NEH Seminars for School Teachers
If you are a K-12 teacher, or if you know any, please remind them of an outstanding opportunity for professional development, with pay, courtesy of a national program organized by the National Endowment for the Humanities. Details on the Summer Institutes and Seminars are at this page:
http://www.mohumanities.org/E-News/Jan05/teachers.htm
A Christmas Tale from Jinzhou
Our friend and former board member, Alan Perry, has entertained us throughout the fall with letters about his experiences as a teacher of English as a Second Language in the Chinese city of Jinzhou. His wonderful letter about Christmas there is attached in full.
http://www.mohumanities.org/E-News/Jan05/jinzhou_letter.htm
About New Year's Resolutions
Contributing Editor Dawn Schwab has considered the New Year's Resolution for her first column of the new year. Dawn served as our Fiscal Officer until we had an opening for a writer, and the rest is, if not history, literature!
http://www.mohumanities.org/E-News/Jan05/resolutions.htm
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