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The exhibit also examines attitudes to- Extracurriculars ward Degas in the United States and Har- vard’s role in his career (see page 40). Take a stroll around NATURE AND SCIENCE • Opening August 27 this summer and you’ll find a multitude of The Harvard-Smithsonian Center Silver and Shawls: India, Europe, and activities for all ages, ranging from the for Astrophysics the Colonial Art Market highlights the Summer Pops concert in and www.cfa.harvard. edu/events.html evolution of textiles and luxury wares. the new Degas exhibit at the Sackler to 617-495-7461 Fogg Art Museum skywatching at the observatory and tours Star-gaze during free observatory nights, • Opening August 6 of Walden Pond hosted by the Harvard on the third Thursday of every month. A New Kind of Historical Evidence. Se- Museum of Natural History. lected works from the Carpenter Center’s MUSIC 28,000 prints and negatives question the T H E A T E R • August 3 at 4 p.m. The Harvard Summer true nature of photography. The American Repertory Theatre Pops Band gives a free performance in Carpenter Center for www.amrep.org; 617-547-8300 Harvard Yard, and can be heard again on Visual Studies • Through July 10 August 7 at 3 p.m. at the Hatch Shell on the www.ves.fas.harvard.edu; 617-495-3251 Frogz, by Carol Ti±er and Jerry Mouawad, Charles River Esplanade in Boston. • Opening July 16 is an artistic vaudeville circus performed • August 5 at 8 p.m. Girls on Film looks at about 60 images by dancers dressed as penguins, sloths, The Chorus per- of female studio workers who posed for alligators, cubed heads, giant balls, and forms Mozart’s C Minor Mass at Sanders films in production or “test strip images.” other whimsical creations. For kids and Theatre. www.fas.harvard.edu/~tickets; They are “stars” who were never meant to adults. 617-496-2222 be seen by the movie-going public. • Through July 10 Harvard Museum of Amerika or The Disappearance, by Gideon EXHIBITIONS Natural History Lester, is based on the Franz Kafka novel. Sackler Museum www.hmnh.harvard.edu; 617-495-3045 Directed by Dominique Serrand. www.artmuseums.harvard.edu Continuing: Thoreau’s Walden: A Jour- • July 15 - August 7 617-495-9400/9422 ney in Photographs by Scot Miller. The Syringa Tree, written and performed by • Opening August 1 Taken over a five-year period, the 30 im- Pamela Glen, is a memoir of a childhood Degas at Harvard o≠ers 62 works by the ages chronicle the pond as an inspiration spent under apartheid. artist, shown together for the first time. for artists, naturalists, and citizens. On

Left to right: A Solitary Fisherman on Walden Pond, smooth as glass, by Scot Miller, from Thoreau’s Walden at the Harvard Museum of Natural His-

tory; Untitled (Boy in cowboy outfit, Lockhart,Texas), 1949, by Harry Annas (1897-1980), is part of an exhibit that opens on August 6 at the Fogg. FROM LEFT TO RIGHT: SCOT MILLER; ART MUSEUMS, ©PRESIDENT AND FELLOWS OF

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NEW ENGLAND REGIONAL SECTION NOW Accepting July 9 and August 2 (from 10 a.m. to 3 ReservationsSpring ‘06!for p.m.), the museum hosts a family day-trip and tours of Walden Pond. On August 6, at 2 p.m. and 4 p.m., children’s author D.B. Johnson (Henry Hikes to Fitchburg) reads from his latest book, Henry Works, at the museum. Peabody Museum of NEW Apartments Featuring Archaeology and Ethnology www.peabody.harvard.edu; 617-495-1027 2 Bedroom/2 Bath Style! Continuing: Gifts of the Great River. The If you’ve been looking for new construction in a fully exhibit features artifacts dating from 1200 accredited continuing care retirement community— to 1600 C.E. that were unearthed along the St. Francis River in Arkansas by Edwin look no further! Curtiss in the late 1800s. Call today for a brochure with information on our existing and new apartments. FILM The A Full-Service Lifecare Retirement Community www.harvardfilmarchive.org 617-495-4700 (781) 863-9660 • (800) 283-1114 • July 1 through www.aboutbrookhaven.org August 21 The archive o≠ers BROOKHAVEN an eclectic summer AT LEXINGTON season of hard- to-find art-house double features, including James Whale’s Franken- stein and films by Nicholas Ray, King Vidor, Sam Shep- ard, and William Wyler.

LIBRARIES www.hcl.harvard.edu/libraries HARVARD FILM ARCHIVE • Through September 2 Miniature books from the collection of Julian I. Edison ’51, M.B.A. ’53, range from Babylonian tablets created circa 2300 b.c.e. to a 5-millimeter gold plaque incised with the words of the New Tes- tament. 617-495-2440.

Events listings also appear in the Univer- sity Gazette, accessible via this magazine’s website, www.harvardmagazine.com. HARVARD COLLEGE LIBRARY

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