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October to December 2012 Calendar October to December 2012 DIVISION OF PUBLIC PROGRAMS EVENTS, EXHIBITIONS, AND PROGRAMS EXHIBITION OPENINGS OCTOBER Fall The huge Black Sunday storm—the LOWER EAST SIDE TENEMENT worst storm of the decade-long Dust MUSEUM, New York, NY Bowl in the southern Plains—just before it engulfed the Church of God Shop Talk in Ulysses, Kansas, April 14, 1935. Long-term. www.tenement.org Daylight turned to total blackness in mid-afternoon. From the October to January 2013 documentary film The Dust Bowl PORT DISCOVERY CHILDREN’S airing November 18 on PBS (check MUSEUM, Baltimore, MD local listings). Courtesy,Historic Adobe Museum. Gods, Myths, and Mortals: www.pbs.org/kenburns/dustbowl Discover Ancient Greece Traveling. Organized by the Children’s Museum of Manhattan. www.cmom.org October 1 to January 6, 2013 STEPPING STONES MUSEUM FOR CHILDREN, Norwalk, CT October 10 to December 7 October 10 to November 30 Native Voices: New England UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS, CULVER EDUCATIONAL Tribal Families AMHERST W.E.B. DUBOIS LIBRARY, FOUNDATION, Culver, IN Traveling. Organized by the Children’s Museum of Boston. www.bostonkids.org Amherst, MA Lincoln: The Constitution and Pride and Passion: The African the Civil War October 3 to November 2 Traveling. American Baseball Experience LOURDES COLLEGE, Sylvania, OH Traveling. Organized by the American Library October 10 to November 30 Manifold Greatness: The Association. www.ala.org HOWARD COUNTY LIBRARY, Creation and Afterlife of the October 10 to November 30 Columbia, MD King James Bible CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY Traveling. Organized by the Folger Lincoln: The Constitution and Shakespeare Library and the American Library CHANNEL ISLANDS, Camarillo, CA the Civil War Association. www.ala.org Lincoln: The Constitution and Traveling. the Civil War October 3 to November 2 October 10 to November 30 Traveling. Organized by the National PROVO CITY LIBRARY AT ACADEMY Constitution Center. NORWICH FREE ACADEMY, SQUARE, Provo, UT www.ala.org/ala/aboutala/offices/ppo/ Norwich, CT programming/lincoln/index.cfm Manifold Greatness: The Lincoln: The Constitution and Creation and Afterlife of the October 10 to November 30 the Civil War Traveling. King James Bible COASTAL CAROLINA UNIVERSITY, Traveling. Conway, SC October 10 to November 30 October 3 to November 2 Lincoln: The Constitution and SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING, the Civil War SCHOOL OF LAW, Carbondale, IL Traveling. Laramie, WY Lincoln: The Constitution and Manifold Greatness: The the Civil War Creation and Afterlife of the Traveling. King James Bible Traveling. October 10 to November 30 October 20 OVEMBER SULPHUR SPRINGS PUBLIC LIBRARY, KENT STATE UNIVERSITY, N November 7 to December 21 Sulphur Springs, TX VISITORS CENTER, Kent, OH CHESTERFIELD COUNTY PUBLIC Lincoln: The Constitution and Making Meaning of May 4th: LIBRARY, Chesterfield, VA the Civil War The Kent State Shootings in Pride and Passion: The African Traveling. American History American Baseball Experience Long-term. Organized by Kent State Traveling. October 10 to November 30 University. www.kent.edu UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA, November 14 to January 11, 2013 October 21 to January 13, 2013 Asheville, NC MONTROSE REGIONAL LIBRARY Lincoln: The Constitution and MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, HOUSTON, Houston, TX DISTRICT, Montrose, CO the Civil War Manifold Greatness: The Traveling. Henry Ossawa Tanner: Creation and Afterlife of the Modern Spirit October 13 to October 14 Traveling. Organized by the Pennsylvania King James Bible APPOMATTOX COURTHOUSE, Academy of Fine Arts. www.pafa.org Traveling. Apomattox, VA October 27 to October 27 November 14 to January 11, 2013 An American Turning Point: COURT SQUARE, Boydton, VA TRANSYLVANIA COUNTY LIBRARY, Civil War 150 HistoryMobile Brevard, NC Traveling. Organized by the Virginia An American Turning Point: Sesquicentennial of the American Civil War Civil War 150 HistoryMobile Manifold Greatness: The Commission. www.virginiacivilwar.org Traveling. Creation and Afterlife of the King James Bible October 14 to January 21, 2013 October 28 to January 6, 2013 Traveling. WALTERS ART MUSEUM, CLEVELAND MUSEUM OF ART, Baltimore, MD Cleveland, OH November 14 to January 11, 2013 Revealing the African Presence Wari: Lords of the VERONA PUBLIC LIBRARY, in Renaissance Europe Ancient Andes Verona, MI Traveling. thewalters.org Traveling. www.clevelandart.org Manifold Greatness: The Creation and Afterlife of the October 15 to December 15 October 29 to November 19 King James Bible HERITAGE CENTER OF CABELL COUNTY PUBLIC LIBRARY, Traveling. MURFREESBORO AND RUTHERFORD GUYANDOTTE BRANCH, COUNTY, Murfreesboro, TN Huntington, WV November 15 to March 10, 2013 Lincoln and New York Civil War 150: Exploring the War CENTER FOR ART, DESIGN AND Traveling. Organized by the New-York and its Meaning Through the VISUAL CULTURE, UNIVERSITY OF Historical Society. MARYLAND, BALTIMORE COUNTY, www.lincolnandnewyork.org Words of Those Who Lived It Traveling. Organized by Literary Classics of Baltimore, MD October 19 to April 28, 2013 the United States, Inc. For All The World To See: Visual www.gilderlehrman.org/programs- NATIONAL CONSTITUTION exhibitions/civil-war-150 Culture and the Struggle for CENTER, Philadelphia, PA Civil Rights American Spirits: The Rise and October 29 to November 19 Traveling.www.umbc.edu/cadvc/exhibitions CENTRAL WASHINGTON /foralltheworld.php Fall of Prohibition constitutioncenter.org UNIVERSITY BROOKS LIBRARY, Traveling. November 26 to December 17 Ellensburg, WA October 19 to October 20 CENTRAL RAPPAHANNOCK Civil War 150: Exploring the War COURT HOUSE SQUARE, REGIONAL LIBRARY, and its Meaning Through the Lunenburg, VA Fredericksburg, VA Words of Those Who Lived It Civil War 150: Exploring the War An American Turning Point: Traveling. Civil War 150 HistoryMobile and its Meaning Through the Traveling. October 31 to December 14 Words of Those Who Lived It NORWALK COMMUNITY COLLEGE, Traveling. BAKER LIBRARY, Norwalk, CT Lincoln: The Constitution and the Civil War Traveling. November 26 to December 17 December 12 to February 8, 2013 December 29 to April 28, 2013 DICKINSON STATE UNIVERSITY, LAWRENCE UNIVERSITY, SEELEY G. HAMPTON HISTORY MUSEUM, STOXEN LIBRARY, Dickinson, ND MUDD LIBRARY, Appleton, WI Hampton, VA Civil War 150: Exploring the War Lincoln: The Constitution and An American Turning Point: and its Meaning Through the the Civil War The Civil War in Virginia: Traveling. Words of Those Who Lived It Surviving War Traveling. Traveling. December 12 to February 8, 2013 November 28 to January 25, 2013 PENN CENTER NATIONAL WATERLOO PUBLIC LIBRARY, HISTORIC LANDMARK, Waterloo, IA St. Helena Island, SC NEH ON THE ROAD Lincoln: The Constitution and Lincoln: The Constitution and the Civil War the Civil War Traveling. Traveling. ExhibitsUSA, a national touring exhibitions program of Mid-America Arts Alliance, has December 12 to February 8, 2013 DECEMBER partnered with nationally recognized QUICK CENTER FOR THE ARTS, museums to adapt NEH-supported December 4 to March 31, 2013 FAIRFIELD UNIVERSITY, exhibitions for smaller institutions through MUSEUM OF THE CITY OF NEW the NEH on the Road initiative. Please contact YORK, New York, NY Fairfield, CT the Mid-America Arts Alliance if you would Designing Tomorrow: America’s Lincoln: The Constitution and like to host any of these exhibitions. Additional NEH on the Road exhibits are listed the Civil War World’s Fairs of the 1930s under the Ongoing Exhibitions Section. Traveling. Traveling. Organized by the National Building www.nehontheroad.org. Museum. www.nbm.org December 12 to February 8, 2013 November 10 to January 7, 2013 SAN BERNARDINO PUBLIC LIBRARY, December 10 to February 2, 2013 SONOMA COUNTY MUSEUM, EST ATON OUGE USEUM San Bernardino, CA W B R M , Santa Rosa, CA Lincoln: The Constitution and Baton Rouge, LA Wild Land: Thomas Cole the Civil War From Morning to Night: and the Birth of American Domestic Service in the Gilded Traveling. Landscape Painting Age South December 12 to February 8, 2013 Traveling. Based on a site interpretation by the Traveling. Organized by the Maymont WALNUT CREEK LIBRARY, Greene County Historical Society. Foundation. www.maymont.org Walnut Creek, CA November 10 to January 7, 2013 December 12 to February 8, 2013 Lincoln: The Constitution and WEST BATON ROUGE MUSEUM, AVON FREE PUBLIC LIBRARY, the Civil War Port Allen, LA Avon, CT Traveling. Our Lives, Our Stories: Lincoln: The Constitution and December 19 to February 28, 2013 America’s Greatest Generation the Civil War POUGHKEEPSIE PUBLIC LIBRARY, Traveling. Based on an exhibition organized Traveling. by the Minnesota Historical Society. Poughkeepsie, NY December 12 to February 8, 2013 Pride and Passion: The African November 10 to January 7, 2013 CLINTON-MACOMB PUBLIC American Baseball Experience KANSAS AFRICAN AMERICAN LIBRARY, Clinton Township, MI Traveling. MUSEUM, Wichita, KS Lincoln: The Constitution and December 24 to January 21, 2013 For All The World To See: Visual the Civil War JESSAMINE COUNTY PUBLIC Culture and the Struggle for Traveling. Civil Rights LIBRARY, Nicholasville, KY Traveling. Based on an exhibition organized December 12 to February 8, 2013 Civil War 150: Exploring the War by the University of Maryland, Baltimore GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF and its Meaning Through the County. TECHNOLOGY, Atlanta, GA Words of Those Who Lived It November 10 to January 7, 2013 Lincoln: The Constitution and Traveling. UNIVERSITY MUSEUM AT THE the Civil War December 24 to January 21, 2013 Traveling. UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI, OELWEIN PUBLIC
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