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February 27, 2007 Due to the overwhelming response, registration for Family History Day has been closed.Thanks to all who registered.posted @ 4:34 PM February 21, 2007 State Historical Society to Sponsor Family History DayThe State Historical Society of Missouri will sponsor a family history day with two workshops geared toward children and adults on Saturday, March 3, from 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m., in the Society’s quarters.The first workshop, presented by Society senior reference specialist Ara Kaye, will focus on genealogy. Winifred Bryan Horner, professor emeritus of English at the University of Missouri-Columbia, will discuss memoir writing in the second workshop. Bring the whole family to Family History Day at the Society to participate in these fun and educational workshops. Kids of all ages are welcome. Construct a family tree, learn how to research your ancestors, and begin recording your life story for future generations to read and enjoy. Family History Day is free for Society members and $10.00 per family for nonmembers. Pre-registration is required, and space is limited. Call (573) 882-7083 or visit www.umsystem.edu/shs/familyhistory.shtml to register. Come learn about your past and leave your mark for the future! posted @ 4:34 PM February 15, 2007 Society to Host Its First Missouri HIP Theater PerformanceThe Missouri HIP Theater (Missouri History in Performance Theater) will present “Missouri Places: Letters from the Land” on February 27 at 5:30 p.m. in the State Historical Society’s Art Gallery. This readers’ theater performance is in conjunction with the Society’s exhibit, The Stories They Tell: Understanding Missouri History through Maps. Come explore the geography of Missouri with voices from the past! Join playwright Mary Barile and her performers, Kate Berneking Kogut and Sally Foster, as they read passages from diaries, immigrant letters, and Missouri newspapers from 1819 into the early twentieth century, relating the experiences of travelers crossing the state.The Missouri HIP Theater will become a regular feature of the Society’s program calendar. This program is free and open to the public. Due to limited seating, pre-registration is required. Call the Society at (573) 882-7083 to pre-register. The Society is located on the ground floor, east side of Ellis Library on the University of Missouri-Columbia campus. posted @ 9:24 AM Thomas Hart Benton’s World War II Paintings Reinstalled Six of Thomas Hart Benton’s World War II paintings, in storage in recent years, have been reinstalled in the Main Gallery at the State Historical Society of Missouri. Benton was horrified by the bombing of Pearl Harbor in 1941, and he responded by creating a series of propaganda pictures that he hoped would “wake up the Middle West to the grimness of our national situation.” These large, dramatic, and often disturbing images reflected the resolve, prejudices, and fears of Americans during the early years of World War II. Most of the paintings were donated to the Society by Chicago’s Abbott Laboratories, who reproduced them in the widely circulated 1942 booklet, The Year of Peril. Thomas Hart Benton gave the Society two other related pictures on display.Because of space limitations, the Society is able to exhibit only six of the ten war-themed Benton paintings in its collection. “These are national treasures by a world-class artist,” said Society art curator Joan Stack. “We wanted to make them available to the public.” The Society is located on the ground floor, east side of Ellis Library on the University of Missouri-Columbia campus. The Art Gallery is free and open to the public Monday through Friday from 8:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. and Saturday from 9:30 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. posted @ 8:07 AM |
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