++++ history puts on a show ++++ PresentedP re s By RossfordRo + June 28-Julyy 2 ROSSFORDROSS VETERAN’S MEMORIAL PARK AND MARINANA MARIE CURIE JUNE 28 CHIEF CORNSTALK JUNE 29 MARY SHELLEY JUNE 30 DIAN FOSSEY JULY 1 THEODORE ROOSEVELT JULY 2 Performances begin at 7:30 p.m. Live music at 6:30 p.m. ++++++++++ ++++++++++ Brimfield Hamilton Gallipolis + + June 7-11 June 14-18 June 21-25 Photography: Janet Adams Photo Learn more at ohiohumanities.org Presented By Rossford 2016 Schedule of Events EVENING PERFORMANCES PROGRAMS & MUSIC +++++++ Daytime Programs for Youth — programs begin at 10:00 a.m. Live ON STAGE! Rossford Public Library, 720 Dixie Highway, Rossford Tuesday, June 28: Dan Cutler: Prehistoric People—How Primitive Were They? ROSSFORD VETERAN’S MEMORIAL PARK Wednesday, June 29: Susan Marie Frontczak: Once Upon a Time— AND MARINA Frankenstein 300 Hannum Avenue, Rossford Thursday, June 30: Dianne Moran: Animal Researchers Friday, July 1: Chuck Chalberg: Roosevelt as a Hunter & Explorer Performances begin at 7:30 p.m. Live local music at 6:30 p.m. Saturday, July 2: Susan Marie Frontczak: Storytelling: Science and Engineering through Stories Tuesday, June 28 Daytime Programs for Adults — programs begin at 2:00 p.m. Susan Marie Frontczak Rossford Public Library, 720 Dixie Highway, Rossford as Marie Curie Tuesday, June 28: Dan Cutler: How the “Skin Trade” Changed Traditional Native Values Wednesday, June 29: Susan Marie Frontczak: Does a Clone Have a Soul – Wednesday, June 29 or – Grappling with the Monster Dan Cutler Thursday, June 30: Dianne Moran: Dian Fossey, Passionate Mountain as Chief Cornstalk Gorilla Researcher and Defender Friday, July 1: Chuck Chalberg: Roosevelt’s Character and Roosevelt as an American Character Thursday, June 30 Saturday, July 2: Susan Marie Frontczak: Marie Curie—What Almost Susan Marie Frontczak Stopped Her as Mary Shelley Evening Music Schedule — Live local music begins at 6:30 p.m. Rossford Veteran’s Memorial Park and Marina Friday, July 1 300 Hannum Avenue, Rossford D ianne Moran Tuesday, June 28: Acoustic Penguin - Old time fiddle tunes along with as D ian Fossey some jazz and swing. .. Wednesday, June 29: The Grande Royale Ukulelists of the Black Swamp - A vocal/ukulele quartet that plays all kinds of music. Saturday, July 2 Thursday, June 30: The Root Cellar String Band - Music of pre-1940s Chuck Chalberg rural America and the southern Appalachian mountains. as Theodore Roosevelt Friday, July 1: Tim Tegge - A lyrical journey of funny, sad, poignant, and thought-provoking songs. ++++++++++ Saturday, July 2: Kerry Clark – A musical Norman Rockwell. SHARING THE HUMAN STORY 471 EAST BROAD STREET SUITE 1620 COLUMBUS, OHIO 43215-3857 WWW.OHIOHUMANITIES.ORG OFFICE: 614.461.7802 TOLL FREE: 800.293.9774 FAX: 614.461.4651 [email protected] 2 Photo: Sheryl Lazenby OHIO HUMANITIESS NOTE:NOTE DIRECTOR’S MESSAGE BOARD MEMBERS TheThhe sand shifted During Ohio Chautauqua 2016, we’ll confront Kay Shames, JD, underunu my boots; these contradictions in the stories of the five Board Chair asa I struggled for historic personas you will meet on stage. Pepper Pike balance,b the wind Throughout our evenings under the tent, and MJ Albacete tottore at my head during daytime workshops, we’ll explore the North Canton sscarf. Yards off the lives of Shawnee Chief Cornstalk, Frankenstein Brodi Conover, JD bbeach, Lesser Scaups creator Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, scientist Wilmington (A(AythyaA affinis) Madam Marie Curie, US President Theodore Theresa Delgadillo, PhD bobobbedo in the surf Roosevelt, and primatologist Dian Fossey. Columbus lilikeikek so many corks, Their stories—some centuries old—inform our Robert Fogarty, PhD oboobliviousblil vivio to wind chill contemporary conversations about the natural Yellow Springs anandnd three-footththree waves. One world, the environment, and what we leave for Jay Giles huhhundrednddreed yearsyey arr ago, I might have future generations. Geauga County been stalking these birds with a rifle, sending a These performances will challenge us to retriever into the waves to gather the carcasses Robert Gordon consider our responsibility as stewards of Gallipolis for study in a warm laboratory, just as the earth, air, and water. Andrew Hershberger, PhD founder of our national wildlife refuge system Bowling Green did when he was a boy. I suffered no philosophical contradictions as I watched the Scaups ride the waves at the George Kalbouss, PhD Our relationship with nature is compounded Ottawa National Wildlife Refuge—other than Columbus by contradictions. Theodore Roosevelt set the birds seemed unfazed by the cold while Kenneth Ledford, PhD aside thousands of acres as wildlife preserves, I was getting frostbite. Despite the freezing Shaker Heights beginning with Pelican Island, to protect wind, the sight of the birds was mesmerizing. Rick Livingston, PhD nesting sites; he also was an avid hunter. Instead of a rifle, I carried a camera. After firing Columbus Harnessing barely visible elements that the shutter to capture a succession of images, continue to aid modern medicine, Marie William Loudermilk, PhD I turned my focus to staying upright for the Dayton Curie’s discoveries contributed to her death. walk back to a warm car, grateful that someone Mary Shelley was widowed by violent weather Ali Minai, PhD once thought to preserve habitat for the dainty Cincinnati beyond her control even as she was crafting black and white ducks. For the future. For us. Angela O’Neal a literary classic about mankind’s power to Hilliard harness the forces of nature. The natural world JamieJamie OxendineOxendine is alluring and sensual, a pleasant contrast to ToledoToledo the man-made environments where most of us spend our days. It can be unpredictable and Kevin RoRosese Patricia N. Williamsen SpringfieldSpringfield dangerous, not unlike the cities where some of us live. BillBill SchiffmanSchiffman WorthingtonWorthington PeggyPeggy Shaffer, PhPhDD STAFF CincinnatiCincinnati Patricia N. Williamsen Jim Calder Melissa Ricksecker DeborahDeborah Witte,Witte, PhDPhD Executive Director Program Coordinator Program Coordinator CentervilleCenterville David Merkowitz, PhD Robert Colby, PhD Marc Smith Assistant Director Program Officer Business Manager Roger Burns, PhD Erin Jansen Michael Straughter Development Director Administrative Assistant Outreach Coordinator SHARING THE HUMAN STORY 471 EAST BROAD STREET SUITE 1620 COLUMBUS, OHIO 43215-3857 WWW.OHIOHUMANITIES.ORG OFFICE: 614.461.7802 TOLL FREE: 800.293.9774 FAX: 614.461.4651 [email protected] 3 Ohio Humanities Presents: Theodore TheThe NaturalNatural WorldWorld Roosevelt Ohio Chautauqua has looked far beyond the comfortable borders of D ian Fosse Ohio to bring a series of fascinating individuals before you. We hope they will help you learn about Mary Shelley some of the larger stories of the Chief Cornstalk Marie Curie last 300 years. Photo: Janet Adams Chief Cornstalk (Hokoleskwa) moved nineteenth-century, the sickly son of the levels. No longer the mastery of the through eighteenth-century Ohio when American gentry set off on a journey to forests and the wilderness, now the lab the region stood on the precipice of its restore a lost masculinity that industrial opened up a nature even more complex most thorough-going transformation revolution and its crowded cities and scary than any that Shelly conjured a since the glaciers receded at the endangered. Theodore Roosevelt looked century before. end of the Ice Age more than 10,000 first to the ‘frontier’ of the American West After humanity gathered to itself the years ago. We, as twenty-first century and later to the battlefields of Spanish ability to destroy all life, some found Ohioans, ought to be more aware that Cuba for opportunities to renew the respite in the study and passion for the this region was not an untouched manliness that found its meaning in animals which we share the planet with. wilderness and had not been for over man’s dominance over nature and that, As the wave of European dominance 3,000 years. Various Native American nevertheless, contained a paternalistic receded from Africa, Westerners still communities sought to master the desire to protect the natural world. The longed to learn the secrets of the places landscape themselves over many United States needed to protect its last where the animal life filled them with generations. Nevertheless, the period wild spaces to defend the nation against the sublime. The very market forces that of Euro-American dominance would the sort desiccated manhood that had remade the Ohio country in the time bring a degree of transformation that the long ago conquered the Old World. of Chief Cornstalk pushed ever deeper previous residents of the Ohio country Against Roosevelt’s rugged individualism into the forests of Africa during the could have never imagined. stood the scientific eye of Marie Curie. life of Dian Fossey. Some found in the In early nineteenth-century Europe, If Theodore Roosevelt looked to the great gorillas insight into the human Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley brought one wide-open spaces of the American West condition and others found a source of of the singular figures of literature into to situate a nature that would keep the ready income. being, Dr. Frankenstein’s monster. Nearly nation strong, Curie looked into the Ohio is never more alive than on a fifty years after Cornstalk resisted the smallest building blocks of nature to hot summer evening when the air is spread of Anglo-American domination, expand our awareness of the forces that filled with a rhythmic hum that fills all Shelley would conjure a creature that operate unseen across the universe. the silence. In the long days of early reflected the onrushing destruction, Curie represented the expansion of summer, nature is on the march. In the not of colonial domination, but rather opportunity for scientific discovery lives of these figures, one finds many modernity in all its terrible destructive to women. Her work was part of the ways to engage with the natural world.