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Western Kentucky University TopSCHOLAR® Kentucky Humanities Council Catalog Kentucky Library - Serials 2016 Kentucky Humanities Council Catalog 2016-2017 Kentucky Library Research Collections Western Kentucky University, [email protected] Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.wku.edu/ky_hum_council_cat Part of the Public History Commons, and the United States History Commons Recommended Citation Kentucky Library Research Collections, "Kentucky Humanities Council Catalog 2016-2017" (2016). Kentucky Humanities Council Catalog. Paper 27. https://digitalcommons.wku.edu/ky_hum_council_cat/27 This Magazine is brought to you for free and open access by TopSCHOLAR®. It has been accepted for inclusion in Kentucky Humanities Council Catalog by an authorized administrator of TopSCHOLAR®. For more information, please contact [email protected]. f i V ' / •• f. 'A ^ '.\ / •-; iging ofthe MeetournewLincolns Kptucky Humanities Council, Inc.^ kyhumanities.on I I m m 1 k i \ ELSAHEISELSULE LINDSEY CAH BANK WILSON •"SKre FOUNDATION COLLEGE OKviSt^vryyO' d-^e^ 0 BROWN-FORMAN ©P1\|C Craue KENTUCKY Carson-Myre Charitable Foundation TOYOTA MOTOi MMUrACrvftlM, KtvrvCRV. MC. Benny Ray& NikkiBdiley Citizens Guaranty Farmers State Bank Peoples Exchange Bank Foundation 'As ofjune 30, 2016 Sponsored Programs The Kentucky Humanities Council isable to offer free Chautauqua in theSchools programs to select Kentucky schools thanks to the generosity ofour regional partners. Below isalist ofcounties currently eligible to apply for the free Kentucky Chautauqua inthe Schools programs. Check kyhumanities.org for updates on additional opportunities throughout theyear. (This listincludes partnerships established asofJune30,2016.) Ballard Carlisle Floyd Graves Marshall Owen Boone Carroll Fulton Hickman McCracken Perry Calloway Elliott Gallatin Kenton Menifee Wolfe Campbell Estill Grant Knott Morgan Interested insponsoring programs inyour area? Contact us at859.257.5932 orkyhumanities(2)kyhumanities.org. 2016-2017 Humanities Catalog Kentucky Chautauqua in the Chautauqua Schools Introduction 4 For Teachers & Louis Hatchett 27 Daniel Boone 5 School Administrators 16 History & Culture Jemima Boone 5 Booking Information 17 GeorgeHerring 27 Madeline McDowell Breckinridge 5 BookingForm 17 History Carlisle Brothers 5 Grade-Level Suggestions 18 Richard Holl 28 George Rogers Clark 6 Curriculum Ideas 19 History HenryClay 6 JonathanJeffrey 28 Lilley Cornett 6 Speakers Bureau History & Culture JeffersonDavis 6 Introduction 20 Dr. Pearlie M.Johnson 29 Charlotte Dupuy 7 Regional Travel Map 20 African American Culture John G. Fee 7 Michael Austin 21 James C. Klotter 29 Private William Greathouse 7 Culture Kentucky History Johnny Green 7 WesBerry 21 Patrick A. Lewis 30 JusticeJohn Marshall Harlan 8 Culture & Cuisine Kentucky History Emilie Todd Helm 8 David J. Bettez 22 GeorgeEllaLyon 30 Billy Herndon 8 History Writing Price Hollowell 8 Ronald Wolford Blair 22 Leslie McCarty 31 Aunt MollyJackson 9 History Kentucky History GrandpaJones 9 Bobbie Bryant 23 SueLynn StoneMcDaniel 31 Simon Kenton 9 Kentucky History & Culture Culture Lily May Ledford 9 MeganBurnett 23 Lisa Miller 32 Abraham Lincoln 10 History Culture MaryTodd Lincoln 10 Berry Craig 24 Mike Norris 32 Alice Lloyd 10 Kentucky History Children's Literature &LanguageArts Dr.Ephraim McDowell 10 Richard Crowe 24 Tammy Horn Potter 33 Pee Wee Reese 11 Kentucky History Environment & History Adolph Rupp 11 Ronald Elliott 25 Eddie Price 33 Harland "Colonel" Sanders 11 History Kentucky History MarySettles 11 Jacqueline Hamilton 25 Albert Schmid 34 Mark Twain 12 History Culture & Cuisine Booking Information 14 Mary Hamilton 26 Ronald R. Van Stockum Jr 34 Booking Form 15 Storytelling Environment DarylL. Harris 26 More Speakers 35 African American History Cover photo by Larry Neuzel Kentucky Humanities Council, Inc. The Kentucky Humanities Council, Inc. is an independent, nonprofit corporation affiliated with the National Endowment for theHumanities. HieCouncil issupported by theNational Endowment andprivate contributions. In addition to Kentucky Chautauqua andourSpeakers Bureau the Kentucky Humanities Council sponsors PRIME TIME Family Reading Times, hosts Smithsonian Traveling Exhibits throughout the state, publishes Kentucky Humanities magazine, issues grants for humanities programs, and hosts the Kentucky Book Fair. Find this catalog andmuch more on ourwebsite: kyhumanities.org. TellingKentucky's Story Kentucky Chautauqua Introduction Kentucky Chautauqua' has brought to hfe more than 70 people fromKentucky's past— both famous and unknown. Our Chautauqua performers travel to schools and community organizations throughout the state delivering historically accurate dramatizations of Kentuckians who made valuable contributions. The current Kentucky Chautauqua cast includes 29figures from Kentucky's rich andcolorful history. From JohnG.Fee's fight to abolish slavery andMary Todd Lincoln's life as America's First Lady, to Alice Lloyd's struggle to bring education to Appalachia and the humorous stories of Harland "Colonel" Sanders, Kentucky Chautauqua offers something for every classroom and community group. Booking Fees $200 $450 non-profit for-profit organizations organizations Nolimitwhile funding isavailable Billand Cli^ord Carlisle were instrumental inthedevelopment ojearly country music. HjeyJonned a duoin the 1930s, the Carlisle Brothers, and performed on theradioin Louisville. Guidelines: • Thanks to our generous underwriters and sponsors, the Kentucky For-profit organizations wishing to book Kentucky Chautauqua Humanities Council will again offer reduced-cost Chautauqua performances may purchase them atfull cost —$450 perprogram. performancesin 2016-2017. Admission may becharged to performances purchased at full price. • These reduced-cost Chautauqua performances will again beavailable Kentucky Chautauqua performances are scheduled through the to Kentucky schools. Please seepages 16-19 fordetails. booking process using theprintedform on page 15of thiscatalog or •A non-profit community sponsor may host reduced-cost Kentucky at kyhumanities.org. Chautauqua programs for $200each. Please remember to contact theperformer andconfirm arrangements • Chautauquais intended for audiences of 40 or more. Please do not forprograms before submitting your request to us. Ifyou don't, your schedule smaller groups. program will not take place asplanned. For More Information: [email protected] or 859.257.5932 kyhumanities.org Kentucky Chautauqua Daniel Boone Jemima Boone The First Kentuckian Life on the Frontier 1734-1820 1762-1834 / Portrayed byKevin Hardesty, scriptbyBoList PortrayedbyBetsy B.Smith Lexington.KY Cynthiana, KY 859.608.8331 859.235.0225 (H) or 859.588.4019 (C) [email protected] [email protected] Daniel Boone is thequintessential Kentuckian, having blazed the trails Jemima Boone, thefourth child ofDaniel andRebecca Bryan Boone, was thatwould become themap ofKentucky through course, love ofthenew bomon October 4,1762. Destined to live alife beyond theborders ofcivili found region, and his cunning facility with theland and its native peoples. zation, she helped pioneer two American frontiers: Kentucky and Missouri. Born November 2,1734, Boone quickly demonstrated a preference for Typical ofpioneers in theera, Boone endured heanbreak and suffering the outdoors and established himself as an accomplished hunterand ex almost unimaginable to modem Aniericans. Oneofthe most well-known plorer. In 1767, he first visited Kentucky and found this new territory as stories to come out of Kentucky's pioneer past involved 14-year-old Jemi beautiful as itwas dangerous, as itwas hody contested by native populations ma. InJuly 1776, Boone was kidnapped by agroup ofIndians. Her father andtheever-advancing British colonists. led asearch party thatcaught upwith theIndians and rescued thegirls after Boone was an intrepid adventurer and natural leader whose exploits justify threedays incaptivity. his larger-than-life reputation. In1784,John Filson published The Discovery, In 1777, Boone married Flanders Callaway, a union that lasted nearly Settlement Andpresent StateofKentucke. This influential book chronicled the 50years. Together with theother setders at Boonesborough, they endured adventures ofBoone andestablished himnotonly as animportant setder and times ofterrible suffering, facing starvation, cold, and theever-present fear explorer ofKentuck\- and the west, butas an American legend. ofattack. Madeline McDowell Breckinridge Carlisle Brothers "Votes tor Women!" Country Music Duo 1872-1920 1908-2003 (Bill), 1904-1983 (ClifFord) IGHTS Portrayed byKelly Brengelman Portrayed byGregBreeding & Martin Harley «)Ci.irio\ Midway, KY Lawrenceburg, KY 859.846.9177 (H) or 859.806.6592 (C) 502.600.2353 (C) or 502.839.0297 (H) kellybrengelman(g)windstream.net [email protected]; martinhailey@roadnmnerxom Madeline McDowell Breckinridge —orMadge, as she preferred —was both One of the pioneers ofearly country music, Clifford Carlisle teamed astate and national leader ofthe woman's suffrage movement, and was highly in with his younger brother. Bill, to form the Carlisle Brothers in the strumental getting Kentucky to ratify the I9th Amendment, granting American 1930s. The duo performed on Louisville radio inthe 1930s, inanearly women the right tovote. Bom in Franklin County and raised in Lexington as the manifestation of the barn-dance format. In 1938,theysigned withDec- great-granddaughter ofHenry Clay, Madge was expected