http://nyhumanities.org/events/rss NY Council for the Humanities Events RSS feed en http://nyhumanities.org/events/event.php?event_id=5071 May 17 2012 at 1:00 PM, JCC on the Hudson, 371 S Broadway, Tarrytown, NY --- Picture a Rotten Fake, were the words used by art dealer Lord Duveen in a telegram sent in October, 1937, to warn his staff of a possible pending offer for a high-priced "Vermeer" painting. The forger, later identified as Hans van Meegeren, became known as one of the most popular and audacious forgers of the 20th century. His popularity and fame were eclipsed only by that of noted forger Elmyr de Hory, who continued to carry out the productive careers mostly of deceased French artists, producing as many as 1,000 paintings and drawings. This presentation will focus... Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 -0500 nyhumanities 5071 at http://nyhumanities.org http://nyhumanities.org/events/event.php?event_id=5100 May 17 2012 at 7:00 PM, Seneca Falls Library, 47 Cayuga St, Seneca Falls, NY --- President Bush addressed fear of Islam when, after the multiple attacks on September 11th, he made an immediate and clear distinction between religious extremists and the faithful. Furthermore, he broke new ground when he hosted a well publicized, Eid al-fitr dinner at the White House at the end of Ramadan in December 2001. For many Americans this was the beginning of a learning curve. This slide lecture examines efforts during the past decade to combat stereotypes and broaden understanding across faith traditions. In countless ways people are seeking to better prepare citizens for living in a... Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 -0500 nyhumanities 5100 at http://nyhumanities.org http://nyhumanities.org/events/event.php?event_id=4872 May 18 2012 at 1:00 PM, Baldwinsville Public Library, 33 E Genesee St, Baldwinsville, NY --- The audience is part of the program in this lecture, which brings to life the customs, sights, and sounds of travel in late-19th-century New York State. Exploring the preparations of a wealthy Victorian industrialist and his wife as they get ready to travel, participants learn about transportation modes, rules and etiquette of the road, proper attire, and the era's social expectations. Trunks and satchels are packed and ready to go, filled with antique and vintage undergarments, outer-garments, shoes, and valuable accessories for a successful trip to anywhere in 1890. (There's no such thing as packing lightly for a wealthy... Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 -0500 nyhumanities 4872 at http://nyhumanities.org http://nyhumanities.org/events/event.php?event_id=5054 May 18 2012 at 1:00 PM, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, 318 Central Ave, Albany, NY --- Tune in to WAMC-Northeast Public Radio to hear host Randy Cohen interview musician Ricky Lee Jones and former New York City mayor Ed Koch about their "person, place, and thing." The concept behind Randy Cohen’s new public radio series Person Place Thing is simple: he invites notable figures from all genres and backgrounds to discuss one person, one place and one thing about which they feel passionately. This new radio program from WAMC-Northeast Public Radio is sponsored by the New York Council for the Humanities. Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 -0500 nyhumanities 5054 at http://nyhumanities.org http://nyhumanities.org/events/event.php?event_id=4717 May 20 2012 at 7:00 PM, Lima Historical Society, PO Box 532, Lima, NY --- The audience is part of the program in this lecture, which brings to life the customs, sights, and sounds of travel in late-19th-century New York State. Exploring the preparations of a wealthy Victorian industrialist and his wife as they get ready to travel, participants learn about transportation modes, rules and etiquette of the road, proper attire, and the era's social expectations. Trunks and satchels are packed and ready to go, filled with antique and vintage undergarments, outer-garments, shoes, and valuable accessories for a successful trip to anywhere in 1890. (There's no such thing as packing lightly for a wealthy... Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 -0500 nyhumanities 4717 at http://nyhumanities.org http://nyhumanities.org/events/event.php?event_id=4937 May 20 2012 at 2:00 PM, Hauppauge Public Library, 601 Veterans Memorial Hwy, Hauppauge, NY --- In the War of 1812, the news was spread through Broadsides. These songs gave accounts of battles and invasions. They served as rallying points in an uncertain time. They carried the bravado of citizens determined to end continued intervention in American affairs by the British. This program examines the War of 1812 as related in the music of the day. Songs celebrated American triumphs (The Constitution and the Guerriere and Perry’s Victory) while others (Come All You Bold Canadians) told of American defeat after the disastrous attempt to invade Canada. When New York volunteers dug hasty fortifications along Brooklyn Heights... Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 -0500 nyhumanities 4937 at http://nyhumanities.org http://nyhumanities.org/events/event.php?event_id=5005 May 20 2012 at 2:00 PM, Poppenhusen Institute, 11404 14th Rd, College Point, NY --- At a time when American soldiers on the frontier were fighting Apaches, Cheyennes, Navajos and Sioux, at least 20,000 Native American served in the Union and Confederate militaries. They contributed to Union and Confederate causes on both land and sea, as “grunts” in the trenches, and even as commissioned and noncommissioned officers. This powerpoint presentation focuses on the following Native Americans--the Iroquois in New York and Wisconsin, Ojibwes and Odawas in Michigan, the Pequots in Connecticut, and the Cherokees in North Carolina and in the Indian Territory, as well several other southeastern nations--the Catawbas, Lumbees and Pamunkeys. The talk explains... Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 -0500 nyhumanities 5005 at http://nyhumanities.org http://nyhumanities.org/events/event.php?event_id=5158 May 20 2012 at 7:30 PM, Saranac Lake Village at Will Rogers, 78 Will Rogers Dr, Saranac Lake, NY --- An extremely rich and complex system of art and mythology has existed for centuries in Mexico. It has helped to create the cultural and political character of the Americas as we know it. This cultural heritage has attracted artists from all over the world, most notably Mexican and American, to create works based on this magical and intriguing history. Explore and analyze the compelling works of of key contributors to the Mexican Muralist movement, such as Diego Rivera, Jose Clemente Orozco, and David Alfaro Siquieros, as well as their influence on American artists including Jackson Pollack and Georgia... Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 -0500 nyhumanities 5158 at http://nyhumanities.org http://nyhumanities.org/events/event.php?event_id=5192 May 20 2012 at 3:00 PM, Ulster County Historical Society and Bevier House Museum, PO Box 279, Stone Ridge, NY --- For over 12,000 years, the region that is now lower New York, New Jersey, eastern Pennsylvania, and Delaware was home to groups of Lenape (Delaware Indians) and their prehistoric predecessors. By the late 18th and early 19th centuries, however, after a tragic series of removals had taken them halfway across the continent, the broken remnants of these tribes finally settled in parts of Oklahoma, Wisconsin, and Ontario. By the late 20th century, only a handful of elders could still speak their native language, or had knowledge of the traditional ceremonies, religious beliefs, and life ways. In this lively... Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 -0500 nyhumanities 5192 at http://nyhumanities.org http://nyhumanities.org/events/event.php?event_id=5165 May 21 2012 at 7:30 PM, Keene Valley Library, PO Box 86, Keene Valley, NY --- An extremely rich and complex system of art and mythology has existed for centuries in Mexico. It has helped to create the cultural and political character of the Americas as we know it. This cultural heritage has attracted artists from all over the world, most notably Mexican and American, to create works based on this magical and intriguing history. Explore and analyze the compelling works of of key contributors to the Mexican Muralist movement, such as Diego Rivera, Jose Clemente Orozco, and David Alfaro Siquieros, as well as their influence on American artists including Jackson Pollack and Georgia... Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 -0500 nyhumanities 5165 at http://nyhumanities.org http://nyhumanities.org/events/event.php?event_id=5185 May 21 2012 at 6:00 PM, YM and YWHA of Washington Heights and Inwood, 54 Nagle Ave, New York, NY --- In 1942, a remarkable collaboration took place between an organization of immigrant scholars - the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research - and a group of 223 "ordinary" immigrants who responded to a call to write their life stories. Written by shop workers, small businesspeople and housewives, these autobiographies describe life in the old country and in the new. They cover the great political and social developments of the time, as well as the minutiae of everyday existence. Above all, they are great stories by people whose lives mirror Jewish and world history of the late 19th and... Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 -0500 nyhumanities 5185 at http://nyhumanities.org http://nyhumanities.org/events/event.php?event_id=4943 May 22 2012 at 1:00 PM, Riverdale YM - YWHA, 5625 Arlington Ave, Bronx, NY --- American television was all set to launch in the late 1930s, but its progress was interrupted by the start of World War II. Finally, by the end of the 1940s, NBC and CBS began broadcasting to their east coast affiliates. They offered viewers a wide variety of programs: situation comedies, vaudeville-style revues, and most impressively, live original dramas. Within a few years, these anthology programs, like Kraft Theatre and Ford Theatre launched the careers of soon-to-be famous directors like Arthur Penn and John Frankenheimer, actors like Paul Newman and James Dean, and playwrights like Paddy Chayevsky and Rod Serling. But... Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 -0500 nyhumanities 4943 at http://nyhumanities.org http://nyhumanities.org/events/event.php?event_id=4992 May 22 2012 at 6:00 PM, Lee-Whedon Memorial Library, 620 West Ave, Medina, NY --- This is the sixth and final session of the series "Making Sense of the Civil War," facilitated by Donald G. Colquhoun. Participants will discuss the following selections from America's War anthology: Abraham Lincoln, address on colonization (1862); John M. Washington, “Memorys [sic] of the Past (1873); Frederick Douglass, “Men of Color, To Arms!” (March 1863); Abraham Lincoln, “Emancipation Proclamation” (January 1863); Abraham Lincoln, “Gettysburg Address” (November 1863); Abraham Lincoln, letters to James C. Conkling and Albert G. Hodges (1864); James S. Brisbin, report on U.S. Colored Cavalry in Virginia (October 2, 1864); Colored Citizens of Nashville, Tennessee, Petition to the... Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 -0500 nyhumanities 4992 at http://nyhumanities.org http://nyhumanities.org/events/event.php?event_id=5041 May 22 2012 at 10:30 AM, Sid Jacobson JCC, 300 Forest Dr, Greenvale, NY --- "We elect our best jokes to Congress." "I am not a crook." Whether a quip from Will Rogers or a false confession by Richard Milhous Nixon, these statements spurred political humor, which retains its bite and relevance in contemporary America. Joe Dorinson will examine how political leaders have employed wit to advantage and demonstrate why they also became targets of verbal missiles. Building on Joseph Boskin's analysis of political jokelore, Dorinson delineates the uses and abuses of power. Arguably, humor in the political arena establishes the parameters of power and punishes those who travel beyond the pale. As... Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 -0500 nyhumanities 5041 at http://nyhumanities.org http://nyhumanities.org/events/event.php?event_id=5197 May 22 2012 at 1:00 PM, Kirkland Town Library, 55 1/2 College St, Clinton, NY --- This conversation focuses on two short texts that, although by the same author, give contrasting views of life in the Adirondacks a century ago. One is an intense description in the first person of a woman’s life on a poor hill farm where, she feels, she is “only hands and feet for George, / Someone to put the food on the table, / Someone to have more children for him….” The other is a tour around the author’s neighborhood in the same hills along with descriptions of the people who lived there. The two poems... Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 -0500 nyhumanities 5197 at http://nyhumanities.org http://nyhumanities.org/events/event.php?event_id=4686 May 23 2012 at 7:30 PM, Levittown Public Library, 1 Bluegrass Ln, Levittown, NY --- Of America's 46 First Ladies, 9 were born in New York State. This illustrated lecture explores the lives and legacies of these women, each with a different, fascinating tale to tell. The most recent are also the most well-known: Eleanor Roosevelt; Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Nancy Reagan, and Barbara Bush. But the others have stories deserving to be re-discovered. One saved Mme. de Lafayette from the guillotine during the French Revolution, while another, the "Rose of Long Island," married a President 30 years her senior. And a First Lady from New York State gave birth to a daughter whose name... Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 -0500 nyhumanities 4686 at http://nyhumanities.org http://nyhumanities.org/events/event.php?event_id=4835 May 23 2012 at 7:30 PM, Bryant Library, 2 Paper Mill Rd, Roslyn, NY --- During the years 1880 - 1914, there was a flowering of illustration in America usually referred to as the "Golden Age of American Illustration." Women artists occupied a very important place in that flowering. This presentation will explain why this flourishing tool place, and why so many women succeeded as illustrators. It will focus on the careers and work of: Alice Barber Stephens; Jessie Willcox Smith; Violet Oakley; Elizabeth Shippen Green; Charlotte Harding; and Rose O'Neill. Slide images of their work will be shown and interpreted, and followed by a question-and-answer discussion session. Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 -0500 nyhumanities 4835 at http://nyhumanities.org http://nyhumanities.org/events/event.php?event_id=4940 May 23 2012 at 7:00 PM, Farmers' Museum, 5775 State Highway 80, Cooperstown, NY --- Jerome Irving or "JI" Rodale advanced the organic food movement in US culture and politics through his rhetorical leadership choices. Social movement followers and journalists nicknamed JI Rodale the "Guru of the Organic Food Movement." In the 1940s United States, organic agriculture was not on dominant cultural and political radars. So how did JI Rodale rhetorically feed organic food to America? Rodale exhibited both prophetic and pragmatic leadership through his use of material and symbolic resources to legitimize organic food in the pre-WWII era. This lecture illuminates how an early social movement leader can... Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 -0500 nyhumanities 4940 at http://nyhumanities.org http://nyhumanities.org/events/event.php?event_id=4942 May 23 2012 at 7:00 PM, Historic Huguenot Street, 18 Broadhead Ave, New Paltz, NY --- In August 1861, the 44th New York Infantry regiment formed in response to the death of Colonel Elmer Ellsworth, a New York native, nationally-known military figure, and a personal friend of Abraham Lincoln. Nicknamed “Ellsworth’s Avengers,” the 44th was unique in that it raised troops from throughout the state rather than from a particular community. The regiment’s service included important action in the Peninsula Campaign, Gettysburg, and the Wilderness. This lecture will focus on how the 44th New York Regiment offers an opportunity to examine the military, political, and social experience of war both from a New York and a... Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 -0500 nyhumanities 4942 at http://nyhumanities.org http://nyhumanities.org/events/event.php?event_id=5084 May 24 2012 at 7:00 PM, Chemung County Historical Society, 415 E Water St, Elmira, NY --- New York supplied more men, money and material in the Civil War than any other state North or South, but New Yorkers responded to the Civil War in diverse and often contradictory fashions. Concentrating mainly on the home front, this presentation will examine a sample of those responses and some individuals who exemplify them, put in the political, social and military contexts of the war. It will look at the social costs of the war as they played out in the farms and cities of the Empire State, in families, workplaces and neighborhoods and the transition that went... Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 -0500 nyhumanities 5084 at http://nyhumanities.org http://nyhumanities.org/events/event.php?event_id=5037 May 24 2012 at 2:00 PM, Niagara County Historical Society, 215 Niagara St, Lockport, NY --- The American Arts and Crafts Movement, or "mission," gained popularity as a decorative style beginning in 1900, and by 1920 had gone out of style. Arts and Crafts, however, was more than simply a decorative style: it was also a philosophy, an ethos, a way of living, and significantly, an enormous business. Artists and manufacturers of objects in the Arts and Crafts style - furniture, ceramics, metal, lighting, textiles, jewelry - found like-minded creators in a few U.S. locations. Among the most significant centers of creativity for Arts and Crafts was New York State. Gustav and... Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 -0500 nyhumanities 5037 at http://nyhumanities.org http://nyhumanities.org/events/event.php?event_id=5105 May 24 2012 at 7:00 PM, South Huntington Public Library, 145 Pidgeon Hill Rd, Huntington Station, NY --- This is the fourth of a five-part reading and discussion series, "Making Sense of the Civil War," facilitated by Helen Harris. Participants will discuss James McPherson's Antietam: Crossroads of Freedom and selections from the anthology America's War, edited by Edward L. Ayers. Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 -0500 nyhumanities 5105 at http://nyhumanities.org http://nyhumanities.org/events/event.php?event_id=5180 May 25 2012 at 1:30 PM, Orchard Park Senior Center, 70 Linwood Ave, Orchard Park, NY --- What does “civil discourse” mean in contemporary society? Is it possible for people of widely differing views on social, cultural, and religious issues to engage in mutually beneficial dialogues without compromising their own deeply-held beliefs? A vigorous and respectful exchange of ideas is at the very heart of a healthy civilization. The art of argumentation consists not in out shouting others, but rather in understanding points of view that do not necessarily accord with one’s own, and analyzing all perspectives - including one’s own - in a thoughtful manner. In this conversion, we discuss whether or not today’s... Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 -0500 nyhumanities 5180 at http://nyhumanities.org http://nyhumanities.org/events/event.php?event_id=5072 May 26 2012 at 2:00 PM, Hudson Opera House, 327 Warren St, Hudson, NY --- Dr. April Lynn James broke new ground with her 2003 Harvard exhibit, "In Her Own Hand: Operas Composed by Women 1625-1913." This lecture recreates the exhibit for audiences. Through live and/or recorded music, readings from letters and diaries, pictures, and other materials, audiences follow the development of opera from 17th century Italian courts to the public opera houses of 19th century Paris. The journey centers on the re-discovery of little-known scores by women composers, including Francesca Caccini, Antonia Bembo, Louise Bertin, Gabrielle Ferrari, and Maria Antonia, Electress of Saxony. Dr. James describes the challenges of researching and... Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 -0500 nyhumanities 5072 at http://nyhumanities.org http://nyhumanities.org/events/event.php?event_id=4901 May 27 2012 at 1:00 PM, Walt Whitman Birthplace Association, 246 Old Walt Whitman Rd, Huntington Station, NY --- Participants will discuss the poet Gerard Manley Hopkins and the spirituality of Christian poetry as part of the reading and discussion series "The Spirituality of Poetry: From Walt Whitman to Mary Oliver." Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 -0500 nyhumanities 4901 at http://nyhumanities.org http://nyhumanities.org/events/event.php?event_id=4870 May 29 2012 at 7:00 PM, Port Jefferson Free Library, 100 Thompson St, Port Jefferson, NY --- George Washington was in need of good intelligence after he evacuated the Continental Army from New York City in September 1776. His disastrous loss at the Battle of Long Island in Brooklyn on August 27-28, 1776 and subsequent defeats north of the city forced him to retreat with his soldiers to New Jersey and eventually to Pennsylvania. The British controlled New York, particularly the downstate area and Long Island, where Loyalists were in the majority. The Culper Spy Ring was created on Long Island in 1778 by then-Dragoon Major Benjamin Tallmadge of Setauket, under Washington's leadership. This colorful PowerPoint presentation... Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 -0500 nyhumanities 4870 at http://nyhumanities.org http://nyhumanities.org/events/event.php?event_id=5036 May 29 2012 at 11:00 AM, Retired Executives and Professionals (REAP II), 30 Cumberland Ave, Great Neck, NY --- This lecture covers the daily life of the inhabitants of Pompeii before and during the eruption of Mt. Vesuvius on August 24, 79 A.D. After a practical comparison of Pompeian mores, life-styles, religious beliefs, and artistic creativity with contemporary times, a beautiful slide show on DVD will take the audience on a virtual tour of the ruins of the ancient city to admire the architectural design of the Forum, the Greek Theatre, the Baths, the Fountains, and the homes and shops, including the well-preserved House of the Vettii Brothers. The audience learns the history of the city and... Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 -0500 nyhumanities 5036 at http://nyhumanities.org http://nyhumanities.org/events/event.php?event_id=5116 May 29 2012 at 7:00 PM, David A Howe Public Library, 155 N Main St, Wellsville, NY --- From Aaron McGruder's controversial "Boondocks" comic strip through Gary Trudeau's "Doonesbury," and back to the 19th century beginnings of visual punditry in daily newspapers, serial cartoons have become a unique social commentary form. Familiar strips such as The Katzenjammer Kids, Steve Canyon, and Beetle Bailey are long-read sources of entertainment, but they are also propaganda media. This lecture highlights major comic artists, and explores the ideologies behind their use of language and pictures for cultural critique. Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 -0500 nyhumanities 5116 at http://nyhumanities.org http://nyhumanities.org/events/event.php?event_id=4808 May 30 2012 at 1:00 PM, Emanuel United Church of Christ, 9312 91st Ave, Woodhaven, NY --- This vivid lecture-presentation examines the immense impact of the Civil War and New York on each other. Downstate, New York City was a major economic link in the nexus of Cotton and Slavery. Upstate, New York gave vast numbers of its citizen-soldiers to the Union cause, playing a leading part in America’s postwar Republic of Suffering. And Manhattan Island “hosted” the infamous Draft Riot of 1863, most recently featured as the stunning climax of Martin Scorsese’s Gangs of New York. Ranging from Phil Sheridan and Samuel Wadsworth through William “Tecumseh” Sherman and Ulysses S. Grant, New York... Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 -0500 nyhumanities 4808 at http://nyhumanities.org http://nyhumanities.org/events/event.php?event_id=5110 May 30 2012 at 7:00 PM, Mendon Public Library, 15 Monroe St, Honeoye Falls, NY --- This is the third discussion of the reading and discussion series "Making Sense of the Civil War," facilitated by Bruce Peckham. Participants will discuss selections from the anthology America's War, edited by Edward L. Ayers. Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 -0500 nyhumanities 5110 at http://nyhumanities.org http://nyhumanities.org/events/event.php?event_id=5186 May 30 2012 at 7:00 PM, Fox Run Orchard Park, 1 Fox Run Ln, Orchard Park, NY --- With the opening of the Erie Canal in 1825, Buffalo's population began to expand rapidly. Sheppard's Music Store opened only two years later to a welcoming city. Soon choral and band concert series were established, and by the 1830s, the Christy Minstrels had performed to sold-out houses in Buffalo, New York City, and London. By mid-century, Buffalo audiences supported the concerts of Jenny Lind, the "Swedish Nightingale," and the resounding voices of the German Men's Singing Society. From 1870, visiting orchestras were invited to perform in Buffalo's music halls, Following the culturally successful Pan-American Exposition, the... Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 -0500 nyhumanities 5186 at http://nyhumanities.org http://nyhumanities.org/events/event.php?event_id=4714 Jun 1 2012 at 6:30 PM, Ward W. O'Hara Agricultural Museum of Cayuga County, 6880 East Lake Road, Auburn, NY --- In this lecture/concert, Dave Ruch presents a fascinating portrait of the War of 1812 through the songs and stories of the people themselves. Ruch has dug deeply into archival recordings, diaries, old newspapers and other historical manuscripts to unearth a wealth of rarely-heard music which, alongside some of the classics from the war, offers a rounded and fascinating picture of this “second war of independence.” Special emphasis is given to New York State’s important role in the conflict. Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 -0500 nyhumanities 4714 at http://nyhumanities.org http://nyhumanities.org/events/event.php?event_id=4747 Jun 1 2012 at 8:00 PM, YMCA 14th Street, 344 E 14th St, New York, NY --- After World War II, Jewish Americans prospered as never before, but the old tensions between Jewish heritage and American opportunities persisted. While characters in plays by Wendy Wasserstein are trying to free themselves from their heritage, Jewish protagonists in plays by Paddy Chayefsky, Jules Feiffer, and others are left deeply unsatisfied by their American "success." Neil Simon in his Brighton Beach trilogy and the creators of Fiddler on the Roof fed a hunger among prosperous Jewish Americans for connection with their struggling ancestors. Angels in America by Tony Kushner begins with the funeral of an old Jewish woman:... Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 -0500 nyhumanities 4747 at http://nyhumanities.org http://nyhumanities.org/events/event.php?event_id=4857 Jun 1 2012 at 1:30 PM, Ebenezer Seniors, 630 Main St, West Seneca, NY --- Although she was considered equally important as Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony (the were called the "triumvirate of the movement"), Matilda Joslyn Gage (1828 - 1898) has been all but written out of history. Dr. Sally Roesch Wagner, the foremost authority on Gage, enlightens about this amazing women "lost from history," who offered her Fayetteville, New York home as a station on the Underground Railroad, was adopted into the Wolf Clan of the Mohawk Nation, edited a newspaper, encouraged her son-in-law, L. Frank Baum, to write his Oz stories, and worked for the separation of church and... Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 -0500 nyhumanities 4857 at http://nyhumanities.org http://nyhumanities.org/events/event.php?event_id=4958 Jun 3 2012 at 4:00 PM, Kinderhook Memorial Library, Po Box 293, Kinderhook, NY --- Rhetorical theorists and critics from Aristotle to the present have reflected upon the ways professional persuaders use rhetoric to position themselves, a strategy, an end, idea, or an object as comparatively superior to another. Rhetorics of change in the 2008 presidential campaigns shaped the national conventions, political advertising, and the debates. But how much change really happened or was proposed in the 2008 presidential campaigns? This lecture provides an explanation of the use of rhetoric in political campaigning by examining both Democratic and Republican party messages. It does so by applying the tactics of transcendence rhetorics... Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 -0500 nyhumanities 4958 at http://nyhumanities.org http://nyhumanities.org/events/event.php?event_id=5124 Jun 3 2012 at 2:00 PM, East Greenbush Community Library, 10 Community Way, East Greenbush, NY --- The War of 1812 was fought on Oceans across the globe. Yet half the war’s casualties occurred within 35 miles of the Niagara River. When Congress declared war, two riders were dispatched with the news. One reached Navy Commodore John Rodgers in New York. Rodgers personally fired the war’s first shot, at a British frigate. The second was sent by New York fur trader John Jacob Astor to Canada - thus protecting his trading interests, and warning the British. The Battle of Plattsburgh kept the US intact, by denying British peace negotiators any claim to holding American territory at the... Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 -0500 nyhumanities 5124 at http://nyhumanities.org http://nyhumanities.org/events/event.php?event_id=5162 Jun 3 2012 at 4:00 PM, Arts on the Lake Inc., 640 Route 52, Kent Lakes, NY --- This slide show explores the intersection of "high art" literature and "low art" comic strips. Through the last century, many cartoonists have adapted classic novels and plays; Sikoryak discusses the history of these reinterpretations, with images from over ninety years of comic strips, comic books, and graphic novels. They are by turns respectful, hilarious, and revelatory. Some of the most famous attempts were made in the 1940's Classics Illustrated series, but there have been many inventive and exhilarating comics adaptations published over the years. These show the wide range of visual styles and narrative strategies employed by cartoonists when... Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 -0500 nyhumanities 5162 at http://nyhumanities.org http://nyhumanities.org/events/event.php?event_id=4866 Jun 4 2012 at 1:00 PM, Peninsula Public Library, 280 Central Ave, Lawrence, NY --- An extremely rich and complex system of art and mythology has existed for centuries in Mexico. It has helped to create the cultural and political character of the Americas as we know it. This cultural heritage has attracted artists from all over the world, most notably Mexican and American, to create works based on this magical and intriguing history. Explore and analyze the compelling works of of key contributors to the Mexican Muralist movement, such as Diego Rivera, Jose Clemente Orozco, and David Alfaro Siquieros, as well as their influence on American artists including Jackson Pollack and Georgia... Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 -0500 nyhumanities 4866 at http://nyhumanities.org http://nyhumanities.org/events/event.php?event_id=4859 Jun 5 2012 at 10:45 AM, Retired Executives and Professionals (REAP II), 30 Cumberland Ave, Great Neck, NY --- The melting pot of America was reflected in the Broadway Musicals. The ethnic musicals of the 1960's and 1970's featured contrasting ethnic groups and wove them into the fabric of the American Musical, successfully and unsuccessfully. Do such shows as Milk and Honey (1961), Fiddler on the Roof (1964), Hallelujah, Baby! (1967), The Wiz (1975) and Pacific Overtures (1976) convey the mood of the modern American experience and hold up over time?Earlier Broadway composers like Irving Berlin hid their immigrant roots, and attempted to incorporate their native musical colorings into the popular American culture. By the 1960's... Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 -0500 nyhumanities 4859 at http://nyhumanities.org http://nyhumanities.org/events/event.php?event_id=5193 Jun 6 2012 at 2:00 PM, Morningside Retirement and Health Services, 100 La Salle St, New York, NY --- Erwin Panofsky noted that the "Arnolfini Wedding Portrait" marked the intersection of the profane and the sacred. The interaction of these two directions will be traced in European paintings from the fifteenth century to the seventeenth century. Highlighted are examples from Flemish and Dutch art which offer insights into Western painting in the following three centuries. Artists' self-definition is a major aspect of this lecture. Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 -0500 nyhumanities 5193 at http://nyhumanities.org http://nyhumanities.org/events/event.php?event_id=5198 Jun 6 2012 at 7:00 PM, Kirkland Town Library, 55 1/2 College St, Clinton, NY --- It has been said that one of the most enduring markers of ethnic identity is cuisine. Indeed, in even the smallest communities throughout the country, it is not uncommon to find Italian, Chinese, or Middle Eastern eateries. Using Donna Gabaccia’s history of the bagel as a launching point for our discussion, this conversation examines the ways in which food and the act of eating are important ways of defining who we are. From fast food to slow food and everything in between, we will consider how eating, cooking, and even shopping for food are rich social activities... Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 -0500 nyhumanities 5198 at http://nyhumanities.org http://nyhumanities.org/events/event.php?event_id=4392 Jun 7 2012 at 1:00 PM, Peninsula Public Library, 280 Central Ave, Lawrence, NY --- This lecture and multimedia presentation highlights the Beatles impact on the political, cultural, and social changes of the 1960's. The Beatles were one of the most popular and influential musical groups of the 20th Century. During the 1960's, the Beatles revolutionized and redefined the genre of rock music and had a tremendous impact on American youth and popular culture. During this time, the Beatles were also affected by the political and cultural changes of the era. Their music, which initially had been comprised of catchy love songs, evolved and began to reflect the more serious tone... Mon, 19 Sep 2011 14:29:29 -0400 nyhumanities 4392 at http://nyhumanities.org http://nyhumanities.org/events/event.php?event_id=5132 Jun 7 2012 at 7:00 PM, Albany Ancient Order of Hibernians, 375 Ontario St, Albany, NY --- This presentation is an exploration of some of the reasons Celtic myths feature more prominent and forceful women than are generally found in Greek or Norse mythologies. Some are ancient goddesses, like Epona, the center of cults. Others are epic figures, like Maeve, a leading player in the Tain Bo Cuailnge, from medieval Ireland. An historical reality underlies the creation of goddesses and legendary heroines, some of it supported by early law books. Queen Boudicca is a real person, and many Celts were matrilineal, tracing descent through the mother. In early Ireland and Wales, women... Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 -0500 nyhumanities 5132 at http://nyhumanities.org http://nyhumanities.org/events/event.php?event_id=5159 Jun 7 2012 at 7:00 PM, Northern Onondaga Public Library at North Syracuse, 100 Trolley Barn Ln, North Syracuse, NY --- During the War of 1812, Sackets Harbor, New York served as the principal American shipbuilding facility on Lake Ontario. A rag-tag team of volunteers, militia, and American regulars repulsed attacking British-Canadian forces in May 1813. The battle left numerous casualties, American ships and stores burned, and no clear victor. Later testimonies placed some of the blame for British advances on the American volunteers who “rose from their cover and fled.” A soldier at the battle later remarked, however, that “the truth is never more than half told�"that the most important held back.” The presenter directed an archeological study of... Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 -0500 nyhumanities 5159 at http://nyhumanities.org http://nyhumanities.org/events/event.php?event_id=4983 Jun 10 2012 at 2:00 PM, Christ the King High School, 6802 Metropolitan Ave, Middle Village, NY --- From Rudolph Valentino to Gwen Stefani, Italian-Americans have had prominent roles in American cinema, television, and video. This lecture traces the varied representations of Italian-Americans in each medium. While early cinema laid a foundation for negative stereotypes of the Italian-American as a gangster, womanizer, or buffoon, television portrayals have been more diverse. Nearly-forgotten early TV shows, such as "Bonino" and "Life with Luigi," portrayed single fathers maintaining healthy families, while Frank Sinatra and Jimmy Durante excelled on early variety shows. With the rise of contemporary music videos, Madonna, John Bon Jovi, and Gwen Stefani have each brought an... Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 -0500 nyhumanities 4983 at http://nyhumanities.org http://nyhumanities.org/events/event.php?event_id=5163 Jun 10 2012 at 2:00 PM, Yonkers Historical Society, 40 S Broadway, Yonkers, NY --- In the early 19th century, the process of industrialization created a new social order that placed emerging groups of bosses and workers into conflict. No city in the United States exemplified this transformation than New York. We explore the rise of the union movement as a response to changing work conditions brought about by the process of industrialization, from the 1830s to the 20th century. By looking at both the technological transformation of the workplace and the development of trade unions, we arrive at a clearer picture of the cultural impacts of industrialization, including the diverse groups... Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 -0500 nyhumanities 5163 at http://nyhumanities.org http://nyhumanities.org/events/event.php?event_id=5161 Jun 11 2012 at 1:00 PM, Suffolk Y JCC, 74 Hauppauge Rd, Commack, NY --- This lecture and multimedia presentation highlights the Beatles impact on the political, cultural, and social changes of the 1960's. The Beatles were one of the most popular and influential musical groups of the 20th Century. During the 1960's, the Beatles revolutionized and redefined the genre of rock music and had a tremendous impact on American youth and popular culture. During this time, the Beatles were also affected by the political and cultural changes of the era. Their music, which initially had been comprised of catchy love songs, evolved and began to reflect the more serious tone... Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 -0500 nyhumanities 5161 at http://nyhumanities.org http://nyhumanities.org/events/event.php?event_id=5113 Jun 12 2012 at 7:00 PM, Bay Shore-Brightwaters Public Library, 1 S Country Rd, Brightwaters, NY --- The War of 1812 has been referred to as America’s “forgotten war.” But it was, in fact, the pivotal event in establishing the young United States as an independent nation, here to stay. Victories at the battles of Plattsburgh, Lake Erie, Baltimore and New Orleans gave Americans a new sense of confidence, pride and patriotism. This and the absence of another major war for the next thirty years gave rise to a remarkable period of economic, political, social and technological transformation much of which was spearheaded in the State of New York. This lecture will explore this legacy of the... Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 -0500 nyhumanities 5113 at http://nyhumanities.org http://nyhumanities.org/events/event.php?event_id=5240 Jun 12 2012 at 12:30 PM, North Shore Jewish Center Seniors, 385 Old Town Rd, Port Jefferson Station, NY --- Based on his acclaimed new book, "Sophie Scholl and the White Rose" (companion to the 2006 Oscar-nominated film, "Sophie Scholl: The Final Days"), Dr. Newborn recounts the inspiring story of German Christian university students - some of them former Hitler Youth fanatics - who transformed themselves remarkably to become the greatest heroes and martyrs of the German anti-Nazi resistance. Using music, historical photographs and dramatic storytelling, Dr. Newborn reveals the power of the White Rose students as contemporary role models in struggles against bias, fanaticism, anti-Semitism, genocide, and threats to democracy abroad and at home. Relating their story to today's... Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 -0500 nyhumanities 5240 at http://nyhumanities.org http://nyhumanities.org/events/event.php?event_id=5080 Jun 14 2012 at 1:00 PM, Comsewogue Public Library, 170 Terryville Rd, Port Jefferson Station, NY --- The music of klezmorim - the Jewish folk instrumentalists of Eastern and Central Europe - is an important means of joyous music-making and Jewish connection for many Jewish and non-Jewish musicians. Skilled contemporary performers have learned the style and repertoire of masters of the klezmer instrumental tradition, while also experimenting with eclectic fusions of klezmer with diverse American and world musical styles. Meanwhile, exuberant and highly expressive singers have added a vocal repertoire, primarily in Yiddish, that is new to the klezmer tradition. This lecture takes a musical journey through klezmer, from rare early-20th-century recordings, to the pioneering... Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 -0500 nyhumanities 5080 at http://nyhumanities.org http://nyhumanities.org/events/event.php?event_id=4995 Jun 15 2012 at 6:30 PM, Utica Public Library, 303 Genesee St, Utica, NY --- In this lecture/concert, Dave Ruch presents a fascinating portrait of the War of 1812 through the songs and stories of the people themselves. Ruch has dug deeply into archival recordings, diaries, old newspapers and other historical manuscripts to unearth a wealth of rarely-heard music which, alongside some of the classics from the war, offers a rounded and fascinating picture of this “second war of independence.” Special emphasis is given to New York State’s important role in the conflict. Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 -0500 nyhumanities 4995 at http://nyhumanities.org http://nyhumanities.org/events/event.php?event_id=5055 Jun 15 2012 at 1:00 PM, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, 318 Central Ave, Albany, NY --- Tune in to WAMC-Northeast Public Radio to hear host Randy Cohen interview The Daily Show correspondent and comedian Samantha Bee and children's horror author R.L. Stine each discuss their "person, place, and thing." The concept behind Randy Cohen’s new public radio series Person Place Thing is simple: he invites notable figures from all genres and backgrounds to discuss one person, one place and one thing about which they feel passionately. This new radio program from WAMC-Northeast Public Radio is sponsored by the New York Council for the Humanities. Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 -0500 nyhumanities 5055 at http://nyhumanities.org http://nyhumanities.org/events/event.php?event_id=5069 Jun 16 2012 at 4:00 PM, Klyne Esopus Historical Society Museum, Po Box 180, Ulster Park, NY --- The War of 1812 was fought on Oceans across the globe. Yet half the war’s casualties occurred within 35 miles of the Niagara River. When Congress declared war, two riders were dispatched with the news. One reached Navy Commodore John Rodgers in New York. Rodgers personally fired the war’s first shot, at a British frigate. The second was sent by New York fur trader John Jacob Astor to Canada �" thus protecting his trading interests, and warning the British. The Battle of Plattsburgh kept the US intact, by denying British peace negotiators any claim to holding American territory at the... Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 -0500 nyhumanities 5069 at http://nyhumanities.org http://nyhumanities.org/events/event.php?event_id=5151 Jun 17 2012 at 2:00 PM, Hanford Mills Museum, 51 County Highway 12, East Meredith, NY --- This lecture explores the legacy of Robert Fulton, the creator of the first commercially successful steamboat. His achievement helped catalyze the expansion of steam power into the energy source of the Industrial Revolution. A smart young man from humble beginnings, Fulton was a talented artist and inventor. He devised canal locks that were eventually used in Britain, designed the first workable submarine (for Napoleon Bonaparte), and more. The audience learns about these and other accomplishments, and how Robert Fulton's legacy is with us to the present day. Steam made possible a quantum jump in manufacturing, true mass production,... Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 -0500 nyhumanities 5151 at http://nyhumanities.org http://nyhumanities.org/events/event.php?event_id=5050 Jun 18 2012 at 8:00 PM, Hadassah - East Meadow Simcha Chapter, 1466 Sylvia Ln, East Meadow, NY --- Drawing on Biblical, Hasidic, and contemporary New York examples, this lecture discusses how Jewish people, as outsiders in the Diaspora, have used stories, jokes, and parables to juggle multiple realities. It explores parables and humor as strategies that Eastern European Jews and their descendants have employed to negotiate their place in the world. The historical situation of Jews in the Diaspora created a people with multiple perspectives on their own situation. Exploring themes such as talmudic reasoning, and juxtaposing the sacred and the profane, "I'm Right, You're Right, He's Right, Too" manages to pack more than fifty... Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 -0500 nyhumanities 5050 at http://nyhumanities.org http://nyhumanities.org/events/event.php?event_id=4706 Jun 19 2012 at 7:00 PM, New City Free Library, 220 N Main St, New City, NY --- This vivid lecture-presentation examines the immense impact of the Civil War and New York on each other. Downstate, New York City was a major economic link in the nexus of Cotton and Slavery. Upstate, New York gave vast numbers of its citizen-soldiers to the Union cause, playing a leading part in America’s postwar Republic of Suffering. And Manhattan Island “hosted” the infamous Draft Riot of 1863, most recently featured as the stunning climax of Martin Scorsese’s Gangs of New York. Ranging from Phil Sheridan and Samuel Wadsworth through William “Tecumseh” Sherman and Ulysses S. Grant, New York... Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 -0500 nyhumanities 4706 at http://nyhumanities.org http://nyhumanities.org/events/event.php?event_id=5085 Jun 19 2012 at 7:00 PM, Weedsport Free Library, 2795 E Brutus St, Weedsport, NY --- This is the final meeting of a reading and discussion series exploring works by exceptional women writers, focusing on the diverse roles women have played in the last two centuries and the struggles that often accompanied those roles. Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 -0500 nyhumanities 5085 at http://nyhumanities.org http://nyhumanities.org/events/event.php?event_id=5115 Jun 19 2012 at 7:00 PM, David A Howe Public Library, 155 N Main St, Wellsville, NY --- While the Battles of Sackets Harbor or Plattsburg do not carry the cachet of a Gettysburg or Saratoga, the War of 1812, now approaching its bicentennial, was very much New York's War. Much of the war was fought on our soil or on our waters. New Yorkers responded to the conflict militarily and otherwise and the war exposed serious inadequacies in the state's infrastructure and the nation's military capacity. This presentation with slides and period quotes examines the impact of the war and its aftermath on the people of New York and the public improvements roads and... Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 -0500 nyhumanities 5115 at http://nyhumanities.org http://nyhumanities.org/events/event.php?event_id=5188 Jun 19 2012 at 6:00 PM, Albany County Historical Association, 9 Ten Broeck Pl, Albany, NY --- In August 1861, the 44th New York Infantry regiment formed in response to the death of Colonel Elmer Ellsworth, a New York native, nationally-known military figure, and a personal friend of Abraham Lincoln. Nicknamed “Ellsworth’s Avengers,” the 44th was unique in that it raised troops from throughout the state rather than from a particular community. The regiment’s service included important action in the Peninsula Campaign, Gettysburg, and the Wilderness. This lecture will focus on how the 44th New York Regiment offers an opportunity to examine the military, political, and social experience of war both from a New York and a... Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 -0500 nyhumanities 5188 at http://nyhumanities.org http://nyhumanities.org/events/event.php?event_id=4772 Jun 20 2012 at 7:30 PM, North Shore Synagogue, 83 Muttontown Rd, Syosset, NY --- The melting pot of America was reflected in the Broadway Musicals. The ethnic musicals of the 1960's and 1970's featured contrasting ethnic groups and wove them into the fabric of the American Musical, successfully and unsuccessfully. Do such shows as Milk and Honey (1961), Fiddler on the Roof (1964), Hallelujah, Baby! (1967), The Wiz (1975) and Pacific Overtures (1976) convey the mood of the modern American experience and hold up over time?Earlier Broadway composers like Irving Berlin hid their immigrant roots, and attempted to incorporate their native musical colorings into the popular American culture. By the 1960's... Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 -0500 nyhumanities 4772 at http://nyhumanities.org http://nyhumanities.org/events/event.php?event_id=5229 Jun 20 2012 at 9:45 AM, JCC on the Hudson, 371 S Broadway, Tarrytown, NY --- This lecture takes listeners on an informative, hilarious journey east of Eden, west of the Moon, and 100 miles north of New York City, where a generation of Jewish comedians honed their craft in the resorts of the Catskill Mountains. This "Borscht Belt" became the training ground for the modern American stand-up comic: the sad nebbish (poor soul) whose troubles are greater than life, and whose kvetch (complaint) is cosmic as well as comic. Performers tempered on the Catskills resort circuit range from Sid Caesar to Mel Brooks, Alan King to Lenny Bruce, Woody Allen to Joan Rivers. However... Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 -0500 nyhumanities 5229 at http://nyhumanities.org http://nyhumanities.org/events/event.php?event_id=5078 Jun 21 2012 at 7:00 PM, Town of DeWitt Community Center, 148 Sanders Creek Parkway, Baldwinsville, NY --- New York State, and especially upstate's old "burned-over" district, was fertile soil for the flowering of abolitionism. This illustrated talk places the story of the Underground Railroad in the context of the religious and reform movements of the pre-Civil War period, including endeavors such as the temperance crusade and the women's rights campaign. Frederick Douglass, Gerrit Smith, Harriet Tubman, Beriah Green and many others come to center stage, as do important events such as the "Jerry Rescue" in Syracuse in 1851. Audiences are encouraged to share their local stories of "Freedom's Trail." Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 -0500 nyhumanities 5078 at http://nyhumanities.org http://nyhumanities.org/events/event.php?event_id=5118 Jun 23 2012 at 11:00 AM, Hendrick Hudson Free Library, 185 Kings Ferry Rd, Montrose, NY --- Born in 1792 in Philadelphia of Sephardic Jewish parents in Philadelphia, Uriah Phillips Levy ran away from home at age 10 to serve as a ship’s cabin boy. At 19 he was a captain in the merchant marine. During the War of 1812 he joined the U.S. Navy, served as a sailing master (warrant officer), and fought in one of the most significant ship actions in the war. He was captured, but returned to the U.S. after the war to a hero’s welcome. Levy stayed on in the Navy, rose to command many ships, fought successfully to have flogging... Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 -0500 nyhumanities 5118 at http://nyhumanities.org http://nyhumanities.org/events/event.php?event_id=4902 Jun 24 2012 at 1:00 PM, Walt Whitman Birthplace Association, 246 Old Walt Whitman Rd, Huntington Station, NY --- For the final session of the reading and discussion series "The Spirituality of Poetry: From Walt Whitman to Mary Oliver," participants will discuss spirituality in contemporary poetry. Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 -0500 nyhumanities 4902 at http://nyhumanities.org http://nyhumanities.org/events/event.php?event_id=5003 Jun 24 2012 at 3:30 AM, Montauk Library, Po Box 700, Montauk, NY --- Life expectancy was very different in Shakespeare's time from ours. Shakespeare was born in 1564 and died in 1616 at the age of 52. This was not at all unusual in the early seventeenth century. Many of Shakespeare's protagonists seem to die at comparably young ages: Prospero, Leontes, Othello, Anthony. In Macbeth, the young military hero at the beginning of the play falls into "the sere, the yellow leaf" at the end, when life is "full of sound and fury/Signifying nothing." In the Sonnets, the poet is already old "When forty winters shall besiege they... Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 -0500 nyhumanities 5003 at http://nyhumanities.org http://nyhumanities.org/events/event.php?event_id=5111 Jun 27 2012 at 7:00 PM, Mendon Public Library, 15 Monroe St, Honeoye Falls, NY --- This is the fourth session of the reading and discussion series "Making Sense of the Civil War," facilitated by Bruce Peckham. Participants will discuss James McPherson's book Crossroads of Freedom: Antietam. Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 -0500 nyhumanities 5111 at http://nyhumanities.org http://nyhumanities.org/events/event.php?event_id=5201 Jun 27 2012 at 6:30 PM, Mount Saint Mary College, Desmond Campus for Adult Enrichment, 6 Albany Post Rd, Newburgh, NY --- In January of 1944, to ill to appear before Congress in person, President Franklin Delano Roosevelt delivered his second to last annual State of the Union message from the White House over the radio. Towards the end of the speech he observed that: “Necessitous men are not free men” and that “people who were hungry and out of a job are the stuff of which dictatorships are made.” FDR then proposed a second economic Bill of Rights under which “a new basis of security and prosperity could be established for all, regardless of station, race or creed.” This conversation explores... Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 -0500 nyhumanities 5201 at http://nyhumanities.org http://nyhumanities.org/events/event.php?event_id=5235 Jun 27 2012 at 7:00 PM, Fox Run Orchard Park, 1 Fox Run Ln, Orchard Park, NY --- As the bicentennial of the War of 1812 approaches, both the United States and Canada are exploring its legacy of lasting peace. While there were no tangible gains to either adversary, the US and Canada both went on to expand and prosper. But the war itself has infused our culture with dramatic stories: "Old Ironsides" and the struggles for naval supremacy; the significance of the Niagara Campaign; the defeat of Tecumseh; Dolly Madison's heroism during the burning of Washington, D.C.; and, the perseverance of the people of Baltimore and of Fort McHenry, which inspired "The Star-Spangled Banner." The War... Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 -0500 nyhumanities 5235 at http://nyhumanities.org http://nyhumanities.org/events/event.php?event_id=5106 Jun 28 2012 at 7:00 PM, South Huntington Public Library, 145 Pidgeon Hill Rd, Huntington Station, NY --- This is the final discussion of a five-part reading and discussion series, "Making Sense of the Civil War," facilitated by Helen Harris. Participants will read selections about emancipation and the effects of the Civil War from the anthology America's War, edited by Edward L. Ayers. Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 -0500 nyhumanities 5106 at http://nyhumanities.org http://nyhumanities.org/events/event.php?event_id=4851 Jun 30 2012 at 2:00 PM, North Star Underground Railroad Museum, 1131 Mace Chasm Rd, Ausable Chasm, NY --- July 4, 1827 was the legal and official beginning of the emancipation of African enslaved people in NYC. Although some did not gain full freedom until nearly 20 years later. Africans had been enslaved in the colony of New Amsterdam and later New York since 1623, more 200 years. This slide lecture focuses on the formerly enslaved Africans, their institutions and organizations and their celebrations of emancipation, from on July 5, 1827 through the end of the Civil War. Parades, church attendance, elaborate dinners and other festivities marked the celebration of freedom for over 50 years. Wed, 28 Mar 2012 09:52:26 -0400 nyhumanities 4851 at http://nyhumanities.org http://nyhumanities.org/events/event.php?event_id=5237 Jun 30 2012 at 11:00 AM, The Society of New Concord, PO Box 3, East Chatham, NY --- This PowerPoint presentation is based on a 17th-century Dutch gardening- and cookbook, which features a calendar for gardening activities and a cookbook that explains how to use the fruits and vegetables grown in the garden to best advantage. The 400-year old book with its contemporary theme helps in understanding the kitchen gardens of the early Dutch settlers of the Hudson Valley and gives insight in our colonial diet. Illustrations include etchings from the book; works by the Dutch masters such as kitchen scenes by Joachim Beuckelaer; market stalls by Quiringh van Brekelenkam and Pieter Cornelis van Rijck; as well as... Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 -0500 nyhumanities 5237 at http://nyhumanities.org http://nyhumanities.org/events/event.php?event_id=4689 Jul 4 2012 at 2:00 PM, Sackets Harbor Battlefield State Historic Site, PO Box 27, Sackets Harbor, NY --- In this lecture/concert, Dave Ruch presents a fascinating portrait of the War of 1812 through the songs and stories of the people themselves. Ruch has dug deeply into archival recordings, diaries, old newspapers and other historical manuscripts to unearth a wealth of rarely-heard music which, alongside some of the classics from the war, offers a rounded and fascinating picture of this “second war of independence.” Special emphasis is given to New York State’s important role in the conflict. Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 -0500 nyhumanities 4689 at http://nyhumanities.org http://nyhumanities.org/events/event.php?event_id=4893 Jul 8 2012 at 2:00 PM, Temple Judea of Manhasset, 333 Searingtown Rd, Manhasset, NY --- This lecture takes listeners on an informative, hilarious journey east of Eden, west of the Moon, and 100 miles north of New York City, where a generation of Jewish comedians honed their craft in the resorts of the Catskill Mountains. This "Borscht Belt" became the training ground for the modern American stand-up comic: the sad nebbish (poor soul) whose troubles are greater than life, and whose kvetch (complaint) is cosmic as well as comic. Performers tempered on the Catskills resort circuit range from Sid Caesar to Mel Brooks, Alan King to Lenny Bruce, Woody Allen to Joan Rivers. However... Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 -0500 nyhumanities 4893 at http://nyhumanities.org http://nyhumanities.org/events/event.php?event_id=4916 Jul 9 2012 at 7:00 PM, Taylor Heritage Center, 4338 Cheningo Solon Pond Rd, Cincinnatus, NY --- The Fordson, first mass-produced in 1918, gave farmers an affordable source of mechanical power. Henry Ford's entry into the tractor business sparked a conflict in the farm machinery industry that had long-term consequences for American life on and off the farm. The transition from horse power to tractor power, from muscles to motors, took place during an era of rapid social change in American life. Farm families were trying to adjust to new marvels everywhere - airplanes, automobiles, electricity on the farm, telephones, radio, consolidated rural schools, indoor plumbing, rural free delivery, better roads, and refrigeration. The lecture use rare... Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 -0500 nyhumanities 4916 at http://nyhumanities.org http://nyhumanities.org/events/event.php?event_id=4998 Jul 12 2012 at 7:30 PM, Schoharie County Historical Society, 145 Fort Rd, Schoharie, NY --- The political campaigns of the past were fueled by song. Tunes like "Jefferson and Liberty," "Tippecanoe and Tyler Too," "Grover's Veto," and "You're All Right, Teddy" were sung with great gusto from porches and taverns across the land. They livened up street corners and torchlight parades. Campaign wordsmiths, often using popular melodies of the day, wrote catchy ditties that got stuck in our heads as we went to the polls. Balladeer Linda Russell traces our elections, from Jefferson's victory song through the Whigs Great Singing Campaign of 1840, to the ragtime melodies of Teddy Roosevelt's... Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 -0500 nyhumanities 4998 at http://nyhumanities.org http://nyhumanities.org/events/event.php?event_id=5056 Jul 20 2012 at 1:00 PM, WAMC Northeast Public Radio, 318 Central Ave, Albany, NY --- Tune in to WAMC-Northeast Public Radio to hear host Randy Cohen interview journalist and gay-rights advocate Dan Savage and Roger Bannister, the first person to break the four-minute mile, each discuss their "person, place, and thing." The concept behind Randy Cohen’s new public radio series Person Place Thing is simple: he invites notable figures from all genres and backgrounds to discuss one person, one place and one thing about which they feel passionately. This new radio program from WAMC-Northeast Public Radio is sponsored by the New York Council for the Humanities. Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 -0500 nyhumanities 5056 at http://nyhumanities.org http://nyhumanities.org/events/event.php?event_id=5112 Jul 25 2012 at 7:00 PM, Mendon Public Library, 15 Monroe St, Honeoye Falls, NY --- This is the fifth and final session of the reading and discussion series "Making Sense of the Civil War," facilitated by Bruce Peckham. Participants will discuss selections from the anthology America's War on the theme of war and freedom. Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 -0500 nyhumanities 5112 at http://nyhumanities.org http://nyhumanities.org/events/event.php?event_id=4999 Jul 26 2012 at 7:30 PM, Schoharie County Historical Society, 145 Fort Rd, Schoharie, NY --- The Fordson, first mass-produced in 1918, gave farmers an affordable source of mechanical power. Henry Ford's entry into the tractor business sparked a conflict in the farm machinery industry that had long-term consequences for American life on and off the farm. The transition from horse power to tractor power, from muscles to motors, took place during an era of rapid social change in American life. Farm families were trying to adjust to new marvels everywhere - airplanes, automobiles, electricity on the farm, telephones, radio, consolidated rural schools, indoor plumbing, rural free delivery, better roads, and refrigeration. The lecture use rare... Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 -0500 nyhumanities 4999 at http://nyhumanities.org http://nyhumanities.org/events/event.php?event_id=4911 Aug 1 2012 at 10:15 AM, Half Hollow Hills Community Library, 55 Vanderbilt Pkwy, Dix Hills, NY --- As a means of illuminating America's racial and ethnic past, this lecture examines and compares an iconic baseball triumvirate: Jackie Robinson, Joe DiMaggio, and Hank Greenberg. Prior to the sport's travails of recent years, baseball long reigned as the undisputed "national pastime." Then, the microcosm of baseball reflected the main currents of American life and culture. We explore the game's golden age, when it possessed the power to dramatize the imperfections of the nation's melting pot. Jackie Robinson's battle to integrate baseball, for example, symbolized the collective struggle of blacks against racism. Likewise, Italian-American superstar Joe... Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 -0500 nyhumanities 4911 at http://nyhumanities.org http://nyhumanities.org/events/event.php?event_id=5006 Aug 2 2012 at 7:00 PM, Summit Town Hall, 1580 Charlotte Valley Rd, Summit, NY --- While the Battles of Sackets Harbor or Plattsburg do not carry the cachet of a Gettysburg or Saratoga, the War of 1812, now approaching its bicentennial, was very much New York's War. Much of the war was fought on our soil or on our waters. New Yorkers responded to the conflict militarily and otherwise and the war exposed serious inadequacies in the state's infrastructure and the nation's military capacity. This presentation with slides and period quotes examines the impact of the war and its aftermath on the people of New York and the public improvements roads and... Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 -0500 nyhumanities 5006 at http://nyhumanities.org http://nyhumanities.org/events/event.php?event_id=5067 Aug 3 2012 at 6:00 PM, Sackets Harbor Battlefield State Historic Site, 504 West Main St., Sackets Harbor, NY --- In this War of 1812 Bicentennial first year observance, the Sackets Harbor Battlefield State Historic Site is pleased to host award-winning author Alan Taylor on the first evening of the Site's 9th Annual War of 1812 living-history weekend. Taylor offers his perspective on Sackets Harbor’s role on the northern frontier with Canada. Commanders at Sackets Harbor had their hands full, fending off disaffected civilians in their midst while awaiting a British attack from nearby Kingston, Upper Canada. Taylor, who teaches at the University of California - Davis, authored The Civil War of 1812: American Citizens, British Subjects, Irish Rebels,... Fri, 10 Feb 2012 16:54:56 -0500 nyhumanities 5067 at http://nyhumanities.org http://nyhumanities.org/events/event.php?event_id=4953 Aug 4 2012 at 2:00 PM, Shaker Heritage Society, 875 Watervliet Shaker Rd Ste 2, Albany, NY --- Aaron Copland, our first composer to achieve international fame, produced compositions that sound distinctly American. This presentation features video clips and CDs that illustrate his life and representative compositions. Born and raised in Brooklyn by Russian-Jewish immigrant parents, Copland sailed at age twenty for study in France. Upon his return, he incorporated jazz into early works such as Music for the Theatre (1925). His next style, often referred to as "esoteric" or austere, is represented by The Piano Variations (1930). In the mid-1930s, he simplified his compositions to recapture his public. He incorporated Mexican folk songs... Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 -0500 nyhumanities 4953 at http://nyhumanities.org http://nyhumanities.org/events/event.php?event_id=4742 Aug 8 2012 at 6:30 PM, Mount Saint Mary College, 330 Powell Ave, Newburgh, NY --- Food historian Peter G. Rose explores the foodways brought to America by the Dutch more than three centuries ago, and the way these foodways were adapted to new circumstances. Slides of 17th century Dutch art works depicting various foodstuffs are part of this lecture. Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 -0500 nyhumanities 4742 at http://nyhumanities.org http://nyhumanities.org/events/event.php?event_id=5032 Aug 9 2012 at 7:00 PM, Fort William Henry Museum, 48 Canada St, Lake George, NY --- This presentation examines Native American cultures and adaptations in the southeastern New York region from the area's earliest occupation by humans, at least 13,000 years ago, to the period of initial European exploration. Changing climate and environmental settings over that time, particularly the end of the last ice age and the appearance of an essentially modern climate, as well as population movements, resulted in the development of many prehistoric cultures and diverse life ways. These life ways are reflected by the Native American cultures that are recognized for the region, referred to by archaeologists as the PaleoIndian (11,000... Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 -0500 nyhumanities 5032 at http://nyhumanities.org http://nyhumanities.org/events/event.php?event_id=5189 Aug 13 2012 at 1:00 PM, Hewlett-Woodmere Public Library, 1125 Broadway, Hewlett, NY --- Art Deco today can refer to anything from saltcellars to skyscrapers, produced anywhere in the world during the early decades of the last century, using abstract, stylized floral, geometric, or streamlined design. In New York, Art Deco evolved through a series of Manhattan skyscrapers into the city's chief architectural language. Following a massive reawakening of interest during the 1970s, New York's Deco buildings today survive as prized remnants of a distant-yet-modern past that still helps to define the city's visual identity. This lecture covers the great skyscrapers of architects Raymond Hood, William Van Alen, Ely Jacques Kahn,... Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 -0500 nyhumanities 5189 at http://nyhumanities.org http://nyhumanities.org/events/event.php?event_id=4912 Aug 15 2012 at 10:15 AM, Half Hollow Hills Community Library, 55 Vanderbilt Pkwy, Dix Hills, NY --- New Ragtime Guitar is a meeting between the elegant, sophisticated piano ragtime of the early twentieth century and the rhythmic, bluesy guitar ragtime of the 1930s and later. Jaffe's presentation explores the musical and social origins of piano ragtime, focusing on the music of Scott Joplin, Joseph Lamb and James Scott, among others. He then introduces the audience to the music of three great ragtime guitarists, Arthur "Blind" Blake, Mississippi John Hurt, and the Reverend Gary Davis, showing how these artists incorporated techniques from piano ragtime into their own particular form of acoustic blues. Jaffe will share... Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 -0500 nyhumanities 4912 at http://nyhumanities.org http://nyhumanities.org/events/event.php?event_id=5031 Aug 16 2012 at 7:00 PM, Fort William Henry Museum, 48 Canada St, Lake George, NY --- “The taking of Canada this year is a mere matter of marching,” Thomas Jefferson. Revenge drove the president - not reason. Armed with a fledgling regular navy of twenty ships, a handful of regular soldiers, an untrained and badly lead militia of a few thousands and a marine corps of just over a hundred, he drove President Madison to seek a declaration of War against the most powerful military machine in the world. He believed England’s preoccupation with Napoleon’s rampage across Europe combined with Great Britain’s global colonial obligations would prevent the British... Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 -0500 nyhumanities 5031 at http://nyhumanities.org http://nyhumanities.org/events/event.php?event_id=4978 Aug 29 2012 at 7:30 PM, Half Hollow Clubhouse, 1 Altessa Blvd, Melville, NY --- Drawing on Biblical, Hasidic, and contemporary New York examples, this lecture discusses how Jewish people, as outsiders in the Diaspora, have used stories, jokes, and parables to juggle multiple realities. It explores parables and humor as strategies that Eastern European Jews and their descendants have employed to negotiate their place in the world. The historical situation of Jews in the Diaspora created a people with multiple perspectives on their own situation. Exploring themes such as talmudic reasoning, and juxtaposing the sacred and the profane, "I'm Right, You're Right, He's Right, Too" manages to pack more than fifty... Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 -0500 nyhumanities 4978 at http://nyhumanities.org http://nyhumanities.org/events/event.php?event_id=5207 Aug 29 2012 at 7:30 PM, Ethelbert B. Crawford Public Library, 393 Broadway, Monticello, NY --- Humor has served as an effective tool for addressing adverse circumstances. Jewish writers have availed themselves of it in good measure. The shlemiel and the shlimazel - the clumsy oaf and the hapless fool - have been favorite prototypes of Jewish humor. The three famed classicists of Yiddish literature, Mendele, Sholem Aleichem, and Peretz, have made extensive use of these prototypes to pinpoint human foibles, sometimes with empathy and compassion, at other times, with a satiric edge. In this presentation, we will describe the travails of the shlemiel and the shlimazel as they have been depicted... Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 -0500 nyhumanities 5207 at http://nyhumanities.org http://nyhumanities.org/events/event.php?event_id=5251 Sep 11 2012 at 7:00 PM, Greece Town Hall, 1 Vince Tofany Blvd, Rochester, NY --- Although the Civil War is most often thought of as a "white man's" war, many American Indians joined the troops, saying good-bye, perhaps for the last time, to their families who would face the challenges of the war years without them. Among them was Union General Ely S. Parker, Aide to Ulysses S. Grant, who grew up as a middle child in a remarkable Seneca Indian family. Well educated in preparatory schools and colleges, the six Parker brothers and their sister Caroline have left a unique legacy of correspondence that provides a window into the singular dilemma of... Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 -0500 nyhumanities 5251 at http://nyhumanities.org http://nyhumanities.org/events/event.php?event_id=5089 Sep 15 2012 at 4:00 PM, Klyne Esopus Historical Society Museum, Po Box 180, Ulster Park, NY --- New York supplied more men, money and material in the Civil War than any other state North or South, but New Yorkers responded to the Civil War in diverse and often contradictory fashions. Concentrating mainly on the home front, this presentation will examine a sample of those responses and some individuals who exemplify them, put in the political, social and military contexts of the war. It will look at the social costs of the war as they played out in the farms and cities of the Empire State, in families, workplaces and neighborhoods and the transition that went... Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 -0500 nyhumanities 5089 at http://nyhumanities.org http://nyhumanities.org/events/event.php?event_id=5234 Sep 18 2012 at 11:00 AM, B. Davis Schwartz Memorial Library, CW Post Campus, 720 Northern Blvd, Greenvale, NY --- Can a police officer frisk an individual not taken into custody? Is evidence seized without a warrant admissible in court? Do the Miranda warnings have to be read to every suspect arrested? Is the search of a vehicle operated by a person who violated a minor traffic infraction lawful? Few government institutions provide a better example of the Constitution's impact on everyday life than the role of law enforcement in the United States. Throughout American history, the Supreme Court has struggled with a delicate balance between two sometimes-opposing objectives: the preservation of individual liberty and the... Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 -0500 nyhumanities 5234 at http://nyhumanities.org http://nyhumanities.org/events/event.php?event_id=5202 Sep 20 2012 at 6:30 PM, Mount Saint Mary College, Desmond Campus for Adult Enrichment, 6 Albany Post Rd, Newburgh, NY --- This conversation will examine racial and ethnic identity, especially as it pertains to the many immigrant groups - past, present, and future - whose assimilation seems as vexing as it does inevitable. How soon, we might reasonably ask? How completely? For that matter, how? The particular text grounding the discussion is an essay by the Calcutta-born Bharati Mukherjee first published in Mother Jones in 1997 and titled “American Dreamer.” In the essay, Mukherjee explains why she identifies herself as “American” rather than “Asian-American,” a choice she concedes some have found fault with but which... Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 -0500 nyhumanities 5202 at http://nyhumanities.org http://nyhumanities.org/events/event.php?event_id=4959 Sep 22 2012 at 2:00 PM, Kinderhook Memorial Library, Po Box 293, Kinderhook, NY --- In the early 19th century, the process of industrialization created a new social order that placed emerging groups of bosses and workers into conflict. No city in the United States exemplified this transformation than New York. We explore the rise of the union movement as a response to changing work conditions brought about by the process of industrialization, from the 1830s to the 20th century. By looking at both the technological transformation of the workplace and the development of trade unions, we arrive at a clearer picture of the cultural impacts of industrialization, including the diverse groups... Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 -0500 nyhumanities 4959 at http://nyhumanities.org http://nyhumanities.org/events/event.php?event_id=5187 Sep 23 2012 at 6:00 PM, Niagara Arts and Cultural Center, 1201 Pine Ave, Niagara Falls, NY --- As the bicentennial of the War of 1812 approaches, both the United States and Canada are exploring its legacy of lasting peace. While there were no tangible gains to either adversary, the US and Canada both went on to expand and prosper. But the war itself has infused our culture with dramatic stories: "Old Ironsides" and the struggles for naval supremacy; the significance of the Niagara Campaign; the defeat of Tecumseh; Dolly Madison's heroism during the burning of Washington, D.C.; and, the perseverance of the people of Baltimore and of Fort McHenry, which inspired "The Star-Spangled Banner." The War... Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 -0500 nyhumanities 5187 at http://nyhumanities.org http://nyhumanities.org/events/event.php?event_id=4980 Sep 26 2012 at 7:30 PM, Taylor Town Hall, New York State Route 26, Cincinnatus, NY --- The audience is part of the program in this lecture, which brings to life the customs, sights, and sounds of travel in late-19th-century New York State. Exploring the preparations of a wealthy Victorian industrialist and his wife as they get ready to travel, participants learn about transportation modes, rules and etiquette of the road, proper attire, and the era's social expectations. Trunks and satchels are packed and ready to go, filled with antique and vintage undergarments, outer-garments, shoes, and valuable accessories for a successful trip to anywhere in 1890. (There's no such thing as packing lightly for a wealthy... Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 -0500 nyhumanities 4980 at http://nyhumanities.org http://nyhumanities.org/events/event.php?event_id=5070 Sep 27 2012 at 7:00 PM, Niagara County Historical Society, 215 Niagara St, Lockport, NY --- Perhaps no other part of the United States saw more battles during the War of 1812 than the Niagara River borderland in western New York State. In later years its decaying fortifications and overgrown battlefields provided reminders of the struggle’s bloodshed and indecisive conclusion. Tourists travelling to Niagara Falls visited nearby Fort Niagara, Queenston Heights or Lundy’s Lane, constructing the war’s memory in the process. As one visitor wrote during an 1821 trip to Niagara, “This beautiful country stimulates my patriotism.” Battlefields and monuments on both sides of the U.S.-Canada border became sites where Americans, and especially New Yorkers, came... Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 -0500 nyhumanities 5070 at http://nyhumanities.org http://nyhumanities.org/events/event.php?event_id=4838 Sep 27 2012 at 7:30 PM, Hurley Reformed Church, 17 Main St, Hurley, NY --- This PowerPoint presentation is based on a 17th-century Dutch gardening- and cookbook, which features a calendar for gardening activities and a cookbook that explains how to use the fruits and vegetables grown in the garden to best advantage. The 400-year old book with its contemporary theme helps in understanding the kitchen gardens of the early Dutch settlers of the Hudson Valley and gives insight in our colonial diet. Illustrations include etchings from the book; works by the Dutch masters such as kitchen scenes by Joachim Beuckelaer; market stalls by Quiringh van Brekelenkam and Pieter Cornelis van Rijck; as well as... Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 -0500 nyhumanities 4838 at http://nyhumanities.org http://nyhumanities.org/events/event.php?event_id=5210 Sep 27 2012 at 7:00 PM, Harborfields Public Library, 31 Broadway, Greenlawn, NY --- This lecture provides an overview of the development of the modern American presidency through the context of the presidential election process. Through the discussion, a focus will be placed on the road to the White House, as well as the powers and ever-changing role of the president from the Founding era to the present. Topics include the legal requirements to hold the office as well as the Chief Executive’s constitutional relationship with Congress and the Supreme Court. Historic and contemporary analysis will address the primary selection process, the debates and selected campaign highlights. Most significantly, the... Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 -0500 nyhumanities 5210 at http://nyhumanities.org http://nyhumanities.org/events/event.php?event_id=5153 Oct 1 2012 at 7:00 PM, Haverstraw King's Daughters Public Library, 10 W Ramapo Rd, Garnerville, NY --- "We elect our best jokes to Congress." "I am not a crook." Whether a quip from Will Rogers or a false confession by Richard Milhous Nixon, these statements spurred political humor, which retains its bite and relevance in contemporary America. Joe Dorinson will examine how political leaders have employed wit to advantage and demonstrate why they also became targets of verbal missiles. Building on Joseph Boskin's analysis of political jokelore, Dorinson delineates the uses and abuses of power. Arguably, humor in the political arena establishes the parameters of power and punishes those who travel beyond the pale. As... Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 -0500 nyhumanities 5153 at http://nyhumanities.org http://nyhumanities.org/events/event.php?event_id=4884 Oct 3 2012 at 1:30 PM, Community Club of Garden City and Hempstead, PO Box 323, Garden City, NY --- This presentation is a musical survey of the history of women in America. By looking at the popular songs of the past -- the ballads, love songs, suffrage anthems, work songs and dance tunes -- we can trace the perceptions and realities of women's lives. The music of the day shows the role of women in 18th and 19th century American society. Accompanying herself on mountain and hammered dulcimers, pennywhistle, guitar and limberjack, Linda Russell explores the images in the songs, interspersing the music with lively commentary that includes excerpts from diaries and letters in which the women tell their... Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 -0500 nyhumanities 4884 at http://nyhumanities.org http://nyhumanities.org/events/event.php?event_id=4927 Oct 3 2012 at 10:15 AM, Half Hollow Hills Community Library, 55 Vanderbilt Pkwy, Dix Hills, NY --- This lecture demonstrates how the revolution in computer miniaturization, bioelectronics, and applied neural control technologies is positioning scientists to create machine-assisted minds, science fiction's "cyborgs," and explores the moral , social, and policy issues that implantable brain chips raise. Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 -0500 nyhumanities 4927 at http://nyhumanities.org http://nyhumanities.org/events/event.php?event_id=5213 Oct 4 2012 at 7:00 PM, Tappan Free Library, 93 Main St, Tappan, NY --- In this simple poem, Robert Frost speculates about the choice of careers open to any individual, the roads that are open to him (in this poem there are two), and more broadly about work and identity. Frost ultimately chooses to become a poet, the less obvious choice, but there is regret for the road not taken--the unexplored possibilities of a different life. Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 -0500 nyhumanities 5213 at http://nyhumanities.org http://nyhumanities.org/events/event.php?event_id=5120 Oct 6 2012 at 2:30 PM, Petit Branch Library, 105 Victoria Pl, Syracuse, NY --- From the late nineteenth century up until the present time, unusual aerial phenomena have been seen and reported across the United States. The explanations of these encounters have not only changed significantly over the decades, but have regularly incorporated the current political, social, technological and cultural predispositions of the general public. In this presentation, John Horner will present the trends in UFO sightings and how the descriptions and subsequent explanations of the many UFO sightings in the United States have shaped the public perception on the reality of this phenomenon. The presentation will use many examples including... Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 -0500 nyhumanities 5120 at http://nyhumanities.org http://nyhumanities.org/events/event.php?event_id=5233 Oct 7 2012 at 2:00 PM, Old Brutus Historical Society, PO Box 516, Weedsport, NY --- Performance in the mid-19th century intersected with politics: Theater was a public conversation, with plays, audiences, and actors getting political. Politicians, meanwhile, had to hone their performing skills, in order to grab attention of listeners during speeches that lasted hours. Exploring this overlap brings a fresh perspective to the era. It also rescues an apparent influence that generations of historians missed: America's first great actor, Edwin Forrest, gave a political speech in New York City that President Abraham Lincoln echoed in the Gettysburg Address. Although the influence isn't certain, why has no one been curious enough to ask about these... Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 -0500 nyhumanities 5233 at http://nyhumanities.org http://nyhumanities.org/events/event.php?event_id=5236 Oct 11 2012 at 1:00 PM, Hewlett-Woodmere Public Library, 1125 Broadway, Hewlett, NY --- In this lecture, the power of the American Presidency will be examined. The Presidency has always been a major fascination of citizens, journalists, and scholars. The person holding the office of President of the United States is described as being, "the most powerful person in the world," as the leader of the world's last remaining superpower. The President is Commander-in-Chief of the U.S. Military, which includes the most powerful weapons systems ever devised, yet the Presidency is limited by the power of both the legislative and judiciary branches of federal government. Additionally, the Presidency is checked... Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 -0500 nyhumanities 5236 at http://nyhumanities.org http://nyhumanities.org/events/event.php?event_id=5020 Oct 15 2012 at 7:00 PM, Warner Library, 121 N Broadway, Tarrytown, NY --- This lecture discusses in detail the history of the colorful event called Carnevale, the annual Italian festival celebrated on Fat Tuesday. In Latin, the word means "goodbye to meat," signifying that Fat Tuesday is the last day that meat may be eaten before the strict fast that ensues at the beginning of Lent. In Italian, the day is also called Marte di Grasso; in French, Mardi Gras. The ancient tradition of Carnevale is traced all the way back, from its origins in pagan cultures and agrarian cycles, to its contemporary manifestations in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; New... Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 -0500 nyhumanities 5020 at http://nyhumanities.org http://nyhumanities.org/events/event.php?event_id=5209 Oct 15 2012 at 6:30 PM, Mercy College, 555 Broadway, Dobbs Ferry, NY --- Experience the legacy of puppeteers Mike and Aida Manteo, their children and grandchildren, a family bound together by a Sicilian folk tradition that spans a century in New York. Experience this enlightening journey into the Century-Old Papa Manteo Sicilian Marionette Theater tradition. Since 1908, five generations of the Manteo family have performed episodes from "Un Avventura d'Orlando Furioso" (the epic adventures of the knight Roland in defense of Charlemagne's empire) with life-sized marionettes. This distinctive art form of marionette theater emerged in Sicily in the early nineteenth century, though the tradition of performing the Orlando cycle with marionettes... Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 -0500 nyhumanities 5209 at http://nyhumanities.org http://nyhumanities.org/events/event.php?event_id=4895 Oct 18 2012 at 7:30 PM, Lyall Memorial Federated Church, 30 Maple Ave, Millbrook, NY --- The audience is part of the program in this lecture, which brings to life the customs, sights, and sounds of travel in late-19th-century New York State. Exploring the preparations of a wealthy Victorian industrialist and his wife as they get ready to travel, participants learn about transportation modes, rules and etiquette of the road, proper attire, and the era's social expectations. Trunks and satchels are packed and ready to go, filled with antique and vintage undergarments, outer-garments, shoes, and valuable accessories for a successful trip to anywhere in 1890. (There's no such thing as packing lightly for a wealthy... Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 -0500 nyhumanities 4895 at http://nyhumanities.org http://nyhumanities.org/events/event.php?event_id=5195 Oct 18 2012 at 1:00 PM, JCC of Rockland, 450 W Nyack Rd, West Nyack, NY --- This lecture is no longer available for 2010 bookings due to high lecture demand. Still available for Speakers in the Schools. New York City's rich musical tradition extends from the broadside ballads of the 18th and 19th centuries to the "folk revivals" of the 1940s, 50s, 60s and beyond, and from Tin Pan Alley, Broadway and the "Brill Building" songwriters to street-corner harmony singing ("doo-wop") and the cutting-edge singer-songwriter offerings of the 1980s, 1990s and today. In this audio lecture, we'll sample songs of crime, housing and transportation in the city, along with other musical ruminations on... Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 -0500 nyhumanities 5195 at http://nyhumanities.org http://nyhumanities.org/events/event.php?event_id=5244 Oct 18 2012 at 10:30 AM, Woodbury Jewish Center, 200 S Woods Rd, Woodbury, NY --- Ask the average American to list their civil liberties and "freedom of speech" will undoubtedly be one of the first. Revered as perhaps the most important of our individual rights, the concept of unbridled expression has been one of the most debated issues in both our society and in our courtrooms and remains a cornerstone of the American identity. Despite the absolutist wording of the First Amendment, free speech does not protect every form of speech or demonstration. As a consequence the government routinely makes laws preventing people from expressing themselves in every instance without recourse. So... Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 -0500 nyhumanities 5244 at http://nyhumanities.org http://nyhumanities.org/events/event.php?event_id=5119 Oct 20 2012 at 2:30 PM, Petit Branch Library, 105 Victoria Pl, Syracuse, NY --- With the creation of Captain Horatio Hornblower of the Royal Navy, C.S. Forester invented the perfect naval hero. This lecture focuses on Forester's slow rise to a fame that brought him the friendship of royalty and prime ministers, as well as a voyage aboard the flagship of the greatest armada the world has ever known: the U. S. Navy's World War II Pacific fleet. Forester's total lack of naval experience didn't stop him from creating the 10 novels and numerous short stories that make up the Hornblower Saga: the exploits of a shy, impoverished young Englishman of the Napoleonic era.... Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 -0500 nyhumanities 5119 at http://nyhumanities.org http://nyhumanities.org/events/event.php?event_id=5219 Oct 20 2012 at 10:00 AM, George E. Franchere Education Center, 1100 Main Streeet, Rotterdam Junction, NY --- While the Battles of Sackets Harbor or Plattsburg do not carry the cachet of a Gettysburg or Saratoga, the War of 1812, now approaching its bicentennial, was very much New York's War. Much of the war was fought on our soil or on our waters. New Yorkers responded to the conflict militarily and otherwise and the war exposed serious inadequacies in the state's infrastructure and the nation's military capacity. This presentation with slides and period quotes examines the impact of the war and its aftermath on the people of New York and the public improvements roads and... Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 -0500 nyhumanities 5219 at http://nyhumanities.org http://nyhumanities.org/events/event.php?event_id=4713 Oct 21 2012 at 2:00 PM, Marcellus Free Library, 32 Maple St, Marcellus, NY --- Surely the planet's best-known veterinarian is "James Herriot," the pen name of James Alfred Wight (1916-1995). His books have been translated into more than a dozen languages, and the readers span ages nine to ninety. Two feature length films, as well as a BBC television series, begun in 1978 and titled "All Creatures Great and Small," have created a powerful visual image of a pre-World War II Yorkshire, frozen in time through perpetual reruns throughout the globe. The essential drama of the memoirs is the symbolic reenactment of the physician's combat with death, with the struggle transferred from people to... Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 -0500 nyhumanities 4713 at http://nyhumanities.org http://nyhumanities.org/events/event.php?event_id=5101 Oct 21 2012 at 2:00 PM, Hyde Collection Trust dba The Hyde Collection , 161 Warren St, Glens Falls, NY --- This presentation explores the role of the African American artist in the historic and contemporary world of abstract painting. The program will impart a greater awareness of the breadth of paintings that have been created by African American artists. Too often, the common expectation is that Black artists' paintings are limited to representational works. This perception is often void of an informed awareness of the powerful and critically acclaimed work of Black artists who are abstractionists. The presentation will include consideration of the works of first-generation abstractionists such as Norman Lewis, second-generation abstractionists such as Ed... Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 -0500 nyhumanities 5101 at http://nyhumanities.org http://nyhumanities.org/events/event.php?event_id=5034 Oct 23 2012 at 7:00 PM, Cazenovia Public Library, 100 Albany St, Cazenovia, NY --- A lusciously illustrated slide-talk on food and drink seen in the 17th century Dutch Masters and their relevance to the American kitchen today. It explores the foodways brought to America by the Dutch more than three centuries ago, and how these foods were changed and adapted under new circumstances. Using slides of some 40 paintings by Jan Steen, Adriaen von Ostade, Jan Davidsz. De Heem, Pieter Claesz, Harmen van Steenwijck and many others, the lecture will demonstrate how these art works give an insight into 17th century food practices and shed new light on the colonial diet. Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 -0500 nyhumanities 5034 at http://nyhumanities.org http://nyhumanities.org/events/event.php?event_id=5152 Oct 23 2012 at 7:00 PM, Haverstraw King's Daughters Public Library, 10 W Ramapo Rd, Garnerville, NY --- This lecture provides an overview of the development of the modern American presidency through the context of the presidential election process. Through the discussion, a focus will be placed on the road to the White House, as well as the powers and ever-changing role of the president from the Founding era to the present. Topics include the legal requirements to hold the office as well as the Chief Executive’s constitutional relationship with Congress and the Supreme Court. Historic and contemporary analysis will address the primary selection process, the debates and selected campaign highlights. Most significantly, the... Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 -0500 nyhumanities 5152 at http://nyhumanities.org http://nyhumanities.org/events/event.php?event_id=5074 Oct 25 2012 at 7:00 PM, Stone Ridge Library, PO Box 188, Stone Ridge, NY --- This presentation is an exploration of some of the reasons Celtic myths feature more prominent and forceful women than are generally found in Greek or Norse mythologies. Some are ancient goddesses, like Epona, the center of cults. Others are epic figures, like Maeve, a leading player in the Tain Bo Cuailnge, from medieval Ireland. An historical reality underlies the creation of goddesses and legendary heroines, some of it supported by early law books. Queen Boudicca is a real person, and many Celts were matrilineal, tracing descent through the mother. In early Ireland and Wales, women... Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 -0500 nyhumanities 5074 at http://nyhumanities.org http://nyhumanities.org/events/event.php?event_id=5164 Oct 25 2012 at 1:00 PM, East Meadow Public Library, 1886 Front St, East Meadow, NY --- In this lecture, the power of the American Presidency will be examined. The Presidency has always been a major fascination of citizens, journalists, and scholars. The person holding the office of President of the United States is described as being, "the most powerful person in the world," as the leader of the world's last remaining superpower. The President is Commander-in-Chief of the U.S. Military, which includes the most powerful weapons systems ever devised, yet the Presidency is limited by the power of both the legislative and judiciary branches of federal government. Additionally, the Presidency is checked... Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 -0500 nyhumanities 5164 at http://nyhumanities.org http://nyhumanities.org/events/event.php?event_id=5001 Oct 27 2012 at 2:00 PM, North Tonawanda History Museum, 54 Webster St, North Tonawanda, NY --- Perhaps no other part of the United States saw more battles during the War of 1812 than the Niagara River borderland in western New York State. In later years its decaying fortifications and overgrown battlefields provided reminders of the struggle’s bloodshed and indecisive conclusion. Tourists travelling to Niagara Falls visited nearby Fort Niagara, Queenston Heights or Lundy’s Lane, constructing the war’s memory in the process. As one visitor wrote during an 1821 trip to Niagara, “This beautiful country stimulates my patriotism.” Battlefields and monuments on both sides of the U.S.-Canada border became sites where Americans, and especially New Yorkers, came... Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 -0500 nyhumanities 5001 at http://nyhumanities.org http://nyhumanities.org/events/event.php?event_id=5200 Oct 27 2012 at 1:30 PM, Historic St. Agnes Cemetery, 48 Cemetery Ave, Menands, NY --- "The art of losing isn't hard to master," Elizabeth Bishop writes in the first line of this poem about loss, time, illness and aging, death, grief, and the redemptive powers of memory and art. We'll discuss one of Bishop's greatest poems as an act of nostalgia, elegy, memory, and memorialization, a meditation on the nature of romantic love and its loss via break-up, divorce, or death, an exploration of loss and mourning, a gesture of healing and acceptance, a reflection on mortality, an affirmation of the value of poetry. How do we confront and cope with loss,... Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 -0500 nyhumanities 5200 at http://nyhumanities.org http://nyhumanities.org/events/event.php?event_id=5166 Oct 30 2012 at 2:00 PM, Oceanside Library, 30 Davison Ave, Oceanside, NY --- This lecture provides an overview of the development of the modern American presidency through the context of the presidential election process. Through the discussion, a focus will be placed on the road to the White House, as well as the powers and ever-changing role of the president from the Founding era to the present. Topics include the legal requirements to hold the office as well as the Chief Executive’s constitutional relationship with Congress and the Supreme Court. Historic and contemporary analysis will address the primary selection process, the debates and selected campaign highlights. Most significantly, the... Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 -0500 nyhumanities 5166 at http://nyhumanities.org http://nyhumanities.org/events/event.php?event_id=5206 Oct 30 2012 at 12:30 PM, Pittsford Senior Center, 3750 Monroe Ave STE 500, Pittsford, NY --- Written almost 200 years ago, "Frankenstein" is a story of a man obsessed with creating artificial life. Yet some basic themes of Mary Shelley's novel eerily echo today's discussions on fetal tissue research, artificial intelligence, life-extension, and human cloning. This talk addresses why the novel continues to fascinate us, and why the story of Victor Frankenstein and his tortured creation lives on in popular culture through films, plays, musicals, parodies, and comic books. How could such an immortal work have been thought up by a sixteen year old girl in an era when women were not expected to write novels... Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 -0500 nyhumanities 5206 at http://nyhumanities.org http://nyhumanities.org/events/event.php?event_id=4928 Oct 31 2012 at 10:15 AM, Half Hollow Hills Community Library, 55 Vanderbilt Pkwy, Dix Hills, NY --- This presentation focuses on southern Italian American comedy, from its roots in the Commedia Dell'Arte and southern Italian poverty, through its progression in transplanted American generations. The lecture follows the development of Italian American humor as it responds to and mirrors the status of the Italian American community, from the immigrant era to the present. Skits, jokes, songs, and parodies from comedians representing various eras and styles trace a legacy that ranges from immigrant coffee houses to the ethnic stage, to radio and records, and to television and film. Then and now, comedy helps Italian Americans to... Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 -0500 nyhumanities 4928 at http://nyhumanities.org http://nyhumanities.org/events/event.php?event_id=5160 Nov 1 2012 at 1:30 PM, Community Club of Garden City and Hempstead, PO Box 323, Garden City, NY --- Franz Liszt is brought to life through live performance of some of his greatest piano works. Liszt (October 22, 1811 - July 31, 1886) was an archetypal Romantic in music and in life. Achievements, each of which would perpetuate the memory of a lesser man, surround him with a blazing halo: dazzling pianism, unequalled to this day; a voluminous body of compositions; finely wrought piano transcriptions of other composers' music, including Beethoven, Schubert, Berlioz and Wagner; an illustrious conducting career; a generous nature that gave devoted teaching to many a distinguished pianist without fee; a sexual radiance that... Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 -0500 nyhumanities 5160 at http://nyhumanities.org http://nyhumanities.org/events/event.php?event_id=5217 Nov 5 2012 at 7:30 PM, Wyman Osterhout Community Center, 7 Old New Salem Rd, Voorheesville, NY --- The Fordson, first mass-produced in 1918, gave farmers an affordable source of mechanical power. Henry Ford's entry into the tractor business sparked a conflict in the farm machinery industry that had long-term consequences for American life on and off the farm. The transition from horse power to tractor power, from muscles to motors, took place during an era of rapid social change in American life. Farm families were trying to adjust to new marvels everywhere - airplanes, automobiles, electricity on the farm, telephones, radio, consolidated rural schools, indoor plumbing, rural free delivery, better roads, and refrigeration. The lecture use rare... Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 -0500 nyhumanities 5217 at http://nyhumanities.org http://nyhumanities.org/events/event.php?event_id=4938 Nov 10 2012 at 1:00 PM, St. Paul's Church National Historic Site, 897 S Columbus Ave, Mount Vernon, NY --- New Yorkers went into the War of 1812 bitterly divided. During municipal elections in New York City, congressional, and state elections from 1812-1815 New Yorkers debated the merits of the war. In the state legislature the Federalist controlled Assembly passed anti-war resolutions while the Republican controlled Senate passed pro-war resolutions accurately reflecting the divisions within public opinion on the merits of the war. Federalists and Republicans argued over the meaning of the war, its impact on civil liberties, and whether is was a partisan war to help the re-election of President James Madison or America's second war for independence to... Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 -0500 nyhumanities 4938 at http://nyhumanities.org http://nyhumanities.org/events/event.php?event_id=4957 Nov 10 2012 at 4:00 PM, Kinderhook Memorial Library, Po Box 293, Kinderhook, NY --- This lecture examines the role that the 'Voice of America,' the international radio-broadcasting network of the United States government, played in building support for the Unites States and its basic foreign policy objectives in Western Europe during the early years of the Cold War (1945-1954). Specifically, this lecture analyzes how VOA broadcasts were used by the United States to project and sell itself and the American people as a prosperous, modern, progressive and political stable society worthy of emulating to Western European audiences during the early Cold War. Through the use of news, political commentaries, entertainment, and feature... Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 -0500 nyhumanities 4957 at http://nyhumanities.org http://nyhumanities.org/events/event.php?event_id=5247 Nov 10 2012 at 1:00 PM, Christ Church on Quaker Hill, 17 Church Rd, Pawling, NY --- description Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 -0500 nyhumanities 5247 at http://nyhumanities.org http://nyhumanities.org/events/event.php?event_id=5203 Nov 19 2012 at 6:00 PM, Mount Saint Mary College, Desmond Campus for Adult Enrichment, 6 Albany Post Rd, Newburgh, NY --- The Gettysburg Address lives in popular imagination as sweetly poetic patriotism. While that perspective has value, deeper meanings in Abraham Lincoln’s great words are often overlooked. This conversation explores how the Gettysburg Address asks what it means to be an American. What is the meaning of the phrase “all men are created equal” in the Declaration of Independence, and in Lincoln’s quotation of that phrase? How does the Constitution fit a discussion of equality? Though the promise of equality now seems ideal and inevitable, Lincoln’s foes dismissed the Declaration’s reference to equality as mere opinion, with no legal standing, and... Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 -0500 nyhumanities 5203 at http://nyhumanities.org http://nyhumanities.org/events/event.php?event_id=5183 Jan 11 2013 at 10:30 AM, Suffolk Y JCC, 74 Hauppauge Rd, Commack, NY --- The melting pot of America was reflected in the Broadway Musicals. The ethnic musicals of the 1960's and 1970's featured contrasting ethnic groups and wove them into the fabric of the American Musical, successfully and unsuccessfully. Do such shows as Milk and Honey (1961), Fiddler on the Roof (1964), Hallelujah, Baby! (1967), The Wiz (1975) and Pacific Overtures (1976) convey the mood of the modern American experience and hold up over time?Earlier Broadway composers like Irving Berlin hid their immigrant roots, and attempted to incorporate their native musical colorings into the popular American culture. By the 1960's... Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 -0500 nyhumanities 5183 at http://nyhumanities.org http://nyhumanities.org/events/event.php?event_id=5199 Jan 18 2013 at 12:15 PM, Port Washington Public Library, 1 Library Dr, Port Washington, NY --- Ask the average American to list their civil liberties and “freedom of speech” will undoubtedly be one of the first. Revered as perhaps the most important of our individual rights, the concept of unbridled expression has been one of the most debated issues in both our society and in our courtrooms and remains a cornerstone of the American identity. Despite the absolutist wording of the First Amendment, free speech does not protect every form of speech or demonstration. As a consequence the government routinely makes laws preventing people from expressing themselves in every instance without recourse. So... Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 -0500 nyhumanities 5199 at http://nyhumanities.org http://nyhumanities.org/events/event.php?event_id=5155 Mar 10 2013 at 2:00 PM, Guilderland Public Library, 2228 Western Ave, Guilderland, NY --- The Hudson River has been the backdrop for a wealth of human history: In the 17th and 18th centuries, pirates hid in the coves and soldiers built forts on its banks. In the mid- 19th century, it was inspiration for artists, poets and inventors. In the 20th century, it was a neglected, dirty stream transformed by Pete Seeger and others into an environmental success story. This program traces life along the Hudson as seen in folk ballads, Erie Canal ditties and dance tunes accompanied by guitar, pennywhistle and hammered and mountain dulcimers. Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 -0500 nyhumanities 5155 at http://nyhumanities.org http://nyhumanities.org/events/event.php?event_id=3353 May 28 2010 - Oct 17 2012 at 10:00 AM, Adirondack Historical Association dba The Adirondack Museum, Po Box 99, Blue Mountain Lake, NY --- “Let’s Eat! Adirondack Food Traditions,” a new exhibition, will examine the role of food in the history of the North Country, and the part food has played in cultural identity, community fellowship, work, leisure, and daily life. A variety of objects, audio stations, and historic photographs will showcase this theme. Tue, 26 Jan 2010 09:44:25 -0500 nyhumanities 3353 at http://nyhumanities.org http://nyhumanities.org/events/event.php?event_id=4549 Dec 2 2011 - Dec 31 2012, Saratoga County Historical Society, 6 CHARLTON STREET, BALLSTON SPA, NY --- Quilts are amazing resources. They are unique in that they are works of art, practical household items, and story-tellers. Usually created out of necessity by women of diverse social classes, quilts are an important aspect of American culture. They tell stories about their makers -- reflect the lives of the people who created them -- and when looked at within their historical and cultural context, can reveal a great deal about our past that is not found in the traditional historical resources. In December 2011, the Saratoga County Historical Society (SCHS) will mount “The Threads of Time,” a temporary... Tue, 26 Jul 2011 12:43:43 -0400 nyhumanities 4549 at http://nyhumanities.org http://nyhumanities.org/events/event.php?event_id=5077 Mar 1 2012 - Sep 30 2012 at 7:00 PM, Beacon Institute, 199 Main St, Beacon, NY --- The exhibit will focus on the Spier Falls hydroelectric dam. In 1903, the Spier Falls hydroelectric dam, located on the Hudson eight miles upstream from Glens Falls, began to produce electricity. Touted at the time as the largest dam of its type in the United States, the dam supplied electricity not only to surrounding communities but also to the large General Electric plant in Schenectady 50 miles away. The dam quickly became part of a network of power plants and transmission lines that supplied power for factories, transportation and lighting in the Capital region. Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 -0500 nyhumanities 5077 at http://nyhumanities.org http://nyhumanities.org/events/event.php?event_id=5174 Apr 1 2012 - Oct 31 2012 at 7:00 PM, Waterford Historical Museum and Cultural Center (WHMCC), 2 Museum Ln, Waterford, NY --- Implementation of an online exhibition exploring the links and connections between the three largest immigrant groups to the Waterford area. Wed, 30 Nov -0001 00:00:00 -0500 nyhumanities 5174 at http://nyhumanities.org http://nyhumanities.org/events/event.php?event_id=5176 May 1 2012 - May 31 2012 at 5:00 PM, Aimie's Dinner & Movie Gallery, 190 Glen St., Glens Falls,, NY --- This exhibition explores the cultural beliefs and events that are the basis of selected celebrations falling within the four seasons that are illustrated in children's art in the Museum's collection. Some of the celebrations included are as follows: SPRING - Persian No Ruz, Russian Shrovide, Brazilian Carnival, Lithuanian Uzgavenes, Chinese Lantern Festival; SUMMER - Finnish Midsummer Eve, Lithuanian St. John's Day, Brazilian Fiesta Junina; FALL - Thai Loi Krathong, Indian Divali, Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival, Mexican Day of the Dead; WINTER - Quebec Winter Carnival, US Hannakah, Christmas in Eastern Europe Tue, 20 Mar 2012 16:31:10 -0400 nyhumanities 5176 at http://nyhumanities.org http://nyhumanities.org/events/event.php?event_id=5175 May 2 2012 - Jul 2 2012 at 10:00 AM, World Awareness Children's Museum, 89 Warren St., Glens Falls,, NY --- This exhibition explores the cultural beliefs and events that are the basis of selected celebrations falling within the four seasons that are illustrated in children's art in the Museum's Collection. Some of the celebrations to be included would be as follows: SPRING -Iranian No Ruz, Russian Shrovtide, Brazilian Carnival, Lithuanian Uzgavernes, Chinese Lantern Festival; SUMMER - Finnish Midsummer Eve, Lithuanian St. John's Day, Brazilian Fiesta Junina; FALL- Thai Loi Krathong, Indian Divali, Chinese Mid-Autumn Festival, Mexican Day of the Dead; WINTER - Winter Festival in Quebec, US Hannakah, Russian New Year, and Christmas in Eastern Europe. Tue, 20 Mar 2012 16:31:14 -0400 nyhumanities 5175 at http://nyhumanities.org http://nyhumanities.org/events/event.php?event_id=5178 Jun 27 2012 - Sep 17 2012 at 9:00 AM, CUNY City College of New York, 160 Convent Avenue, New York, NY --- In 1942, following President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s signing of Executive Order 9066, some 120,000 Japanese Americans from the West Coast were moved into internment camps for the duration of the war. The legacy of that experience is explored in “If They Came For Me Today: The Japanese American Internment Project.” Honoring men and women who were interned or impacted by the internment of Japanese-American citizens during World War II, this living history exhibit teaches us the importance of civic engagement, and emphasizes that historical events are always linked to powerful personal stories. Fri, 23 Mar 2012 10:23:56 -0400 nyhumanities 5178 at http://nyhumanities.org http://nyhumanities.org/events/event.php?event_id=5177 Jul 10 2012 - Jul 31 2012 at 10:00 AM, Hyde Collection Trust dba The Hyde Collection , 161 Warren St., Glens Falls, NY --- this exhibition explores the cultural beliefs and events that are the basis of selected celebrations falling within the four seasons that are illustrated in children's art in the collection of the World Awareness Children's Museum. Some of the celebrations included are as follows: SPRING- Persian No Ruz, Russian Shrovetide, Brazilian Carnival, Lithuanian Uzgavernes, Chinese Lantern Festival; SUMMER- Finnish Midsummer Eve, Lithuanian St. John's Day, Brazilian Fiesta Junina; FALL - Thai Loi Krathong, Indian Divali, Chinese Mid-Autumn, Mexican Day of the Dead, WINTER-Canadian Winter Festival, US Hannakah, Russian New Year, Christmas in Eastern Europe. Fri, 23 Mar 2012 10:23:51 -0400 nyhumanities 5177 at http://nyhumanities.org http://nyhumanities.org/events/event.php?event_id=5066 Jul 20 2012 - Jul 21 2012 at 6:00 PM, Sackets Harbor Battlefield State Historic Site, 504 West Main St., Sackets Harbor, NY --- Commemorating the First Battle of Sackets Harbor’s 200th Anniversary, the Sackets Harbor Battlefield State Historic Site is hosting guest “Mr. Monroe, War of 1812 Secretary of State and Secretary of War.” As the nation’s fifth president, James Monroe first visited Sackets Harbor on his northern tour in 1817. Today, first-person interpreter Dennis Bigelow portrays a convincing “Mr. Monroe.” He appears at the Friday evening Battlefield Alliance Lawn Party and Saturday at the Site's historic Navy Yard, during the community's Canadian-American Festival. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 16:55:00 -0500 nyhumanities 5066 at http://nyhumanities.org