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2017-2018 Catalog Breckinridge.Indd Humanities Catalog 2017-2018 How Kentucky’s Nancy Green became America’s Pancake Queen — page 8 Our Sponsors Keep Our Sun Shining Cralle Foundation *As of June 30, 2017 KENTUCKY HUMANITIES Kentucky Humanities is an independent, nonprofit corporation affiliated with the National Endowment for the Humanities. Kentucky Humanities is supported by the National Endowment and private contributions. In addition to Kentucky Chautauqua and our Speakers Bureau Kentucky Humanities sponsors PRIME TIME Family Reading Time, hosts Smithsonian Traveling Exhibits throughout the state, publishes Kentucky Humanities magazine, awards grants for humanities programs, and hosts the Kentucky Book Fair. Cover photo by Larry Neuzel 2017-2018 Humanities Catalog Kentucky Speakers Bureau Chautauqua® Introduction ...............................................19 Becky Kelley ...............................................31 Introduction .................................................4 Booking Form ............................................45 Kentucky Culture Daniel Boone ...............................................5 Constance Alexander ...............................20 James C. Klotter ........................................32 Jemima Boone ..............................................5 History & Writing Kentucky History Madeline McDowell Breckinridge...............5 Morgan Atkinson ......................................20 Stephanie Knipper ....................................32 Mary Carson Breckinridge ........................5 Kentucky History & Culture Writing & Humanities William Wells Brown .................................6 Michael Austin ..........................................21 Jacqueline Kohl-Hamilton ......................33 Henry Clay ...................................................6 Culture History Lilley Cornett ..............................................6 Geoff Baggett .............................................21 Patrick A. Lewis ........................................33 Jefferson Davis .............................................6 History Kentucky History Charlotte Dupuy .........................................7 Wes Berry ....................................................22 Nora Moosnick..........................................34 John G. Fee ...................................................7 Cuisine & Culture Culture, Religion & Identity Roscoe Tarleton Goose ..............................7 David J. Bettez ...........................................22 William Mulligan .....................................34 Private William Greathouse .....................7 History History Johnny Green ...............................................8 Bobbie Smith Bryant ................................23 Duane Murner ...........................................35 Nancy Green ................................................8 Kentucky History & Culture Kentucky History Justice John Marshall Harlan ....................8 Megan Burnett ..........................................23 Carol Peachee ............................................35 Price Hollowell ............................................8 History Kentucky Culture Aunt Molly Jackson ....................................9 Diane Calhoun-French ............................24 Christopher Phillips .................................36 Grandpa Jones .............................................9 Kentucky History & Culture Kentucky History Rose Leigh ....................................................9 Gary Cieradkowski ...................................24 Tammy Horn Potter .................................36 Abraham Lincoln ........................................9 Sports & Culture Environment & History Mary Todd Lincoln ..................................10 James C. Claypool .....................................25 Robert A. Powell .......................................37 Alice Lloyd .................................................10 Kentucky History & Culture Kentucky History Dr. Ephraim McDowell ...........................10 Berry Craig .................................................25 Eddie Price ..................................................37 Pee Wee Reese ............................................10 History Kentucky History Jean Ritchie ................................................11 Jennifer Cramer .........................................26 Nancy Richey .............................................38 Adolph Rupp .............................................11 Language Kentucky Music Harland “Colonel” Sanders ....................11 Jerry Deaton ...............................................26 Anne Shelby ...............................................38 Booking Information ...............................12 Kentucky History History & Storytelling Booking Form ............................................13 Terry Foody ................................................27 Frederick Smock ........................................39 Kentucky History Poetry Mary Hamilton .........................................27 Ronald Spriggs ...........................................39 Storytelling History Daryl L. Harris ..........................................28 Sandy Staebell ............................................40 Chautauqua in the African American History Culture Schools Doug Henry ...............................................28 Georgia Green Stamper ...........................40 For Teachers & Kentucky History Writing & Culture School Administrators .........................14 George Herring .........................................29 Ernest M. Tucker .......................................41 Booking Information ...............................14 History History & Culture Booking Form ............................................15 Steven A. Hoffman ...................................29 Margaret Verble .........................................41 Grade-Level Suggestions .........................16 Culture & Communities Writing & Literature Curriculum Ideas ......................................17 Gaye D. Holman .......................................30 Eric Thomas Weber ..................................42 Culture Philosophy James Larry Hood .....................................30 Juanita L. White ........................................42 Kentucky & Politics African American History Dr. Pearlie M. Johnson .............................31 Jeff Worley ..................................................43 African American Culture Poetry Kentucky Chautauqua® entucky Chautauqua® has brought to life more than 70 people from Kentucky’s past, both famous and unknown. Our Chautauqua performers travel to schoolsK and community organizations throughout the state delivering historically accurate dramatizations of Kentuckians who made valuable contributions. The current Kentucky Chautauqua cast includes 26 figures from Kentucky’s rich and colorful history. From William Wells Brown’s struggle for freedom and John Marshall Harlan’s role as a U.S. Supreme Court Justice, to Alice Lloyd’s struggle to bring education to Appalachia and Jean Ritchie’s musical legacy, Kentucky Chautauqua offers something for every classroom and community group. Booking Fees $200 $450 non-profit for-profit Our Kentucky Chautauquans, including Kevin Hardesty as Daniel Boone, organizations organizations deliver programs to community groups throughout the Commonwealth. Guidelines: • Thanks to our generous underwriters and sponsors, Kentucky • For-profit organizations wishing to book Kentucky Chautauqua Humanities will again offer reduced-cost Chautauqua performances performances may purchase them at full cost — $450 per program. in 2017-2018. Admission may be charged to performances purchased at full price. • A non-profit community sponsor may host reduced-cost Kentucky • Kentucky Chautauqua performances are scheduled through the Chautauqua programs for $200 each. booking process using the form on page 13 of this catalog or • Chautauqua is intended for audiences of 40 or more. Please do not online here. schedule smaller groups. • Please remember to contact the performer and confirm arrangements for programs before submitting your request to us. If you don’t, your program will not take place as planned. For More Information: [email protected] or 859.257.5932 4 kyhumanities.org Kentucky Chautauqua® Daniel Boone Jemima Boone The First Kentuckian Life on the Frontier 1734-1820 1762-1834 Portrayed by Kevin Hardesty, script by Bo List Portrayed by Betsy 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 the quintessential Kentuckian, having blazed the trails Jemima Boone, the fourth child of Daniel and Rebecca Bryan Boone, was that would become the map of Kentucky through courage, love of the new- born on October 4, 1762. Destined to live a life beyond the borders of civili- found region, and his cunning facility with the land 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 of pioneers in the era, Boone endured heartbreak and suffering the outdoors and established himself as an accomplished hunter and ex- almost unimaginable to modern Americans. One of the 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 it was dangerous, as it was hotly contested by native
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