Following each evening's presentation, the audience
will have an opportunity to ask questions of the famous historical
figures as well as the scholar who created the portrayal.
Monday,
June 7, 2010
1:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. - Youth Camp
- Republic County JR/SR High School - 2405 P
Street - Belleville, Kansas. The Youth Camp will be
presented by Ride Into History (Ann Birney and Joyce Thierer).
This camp will allow twenty-five Republic County children from the
4th - 8th grades to become Chautauquans. They will find local
stories of people who lived in Republic County in the 1930's and
present themselves as though they were actually the people they
researched. The children will also be given the means to
costume themselves as those people.
Tuesday, June 8,
2010
1:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. - Youth Camp -
Republic County JR/SR High School - 2405 P Street -
Belleville, Kansas.
Wednesday, June 9,
2010
1:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. - Youth Camp -
Republic County JR/SR High School - 2405 P Street -
Belleville, Kansas.
6:00 p.m. - Media Night - Meet the Chautauquans -
Blair Theatre - 1310 19th Street - Belleville, Kansas.
Thursday, June 10,
2010
9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. - Dust Bowl Exhibit - Republic
County Historical Society Museum - 615 28th Street (HWY 36) -
Belleville, Kansas.
10:30 a.m. - Making Murals with Folk tales: How
Butterflies Were Made - Belleville Public Library - 1327 19th Street
- Belleville, Kansas. Children will listen to a folktale about
butterflies, then discuss the tale and compare it to the world they
live in today. They will then create a mural based on the
images in the folktale and related images from their own
experiences. The mural will be photographed and displayed
on the Chautauqua website.
1:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. - Youth Camp -
Republic County JR/SR High School - 2405 P Street -
Belleville, Kansas.
1:00 p.m. - Will Rogers: Film and American Society -
by Doug Watson -
3:00 p.m. - Radio in the Thirties - by Tonia Compton
-
7:00 p.m. - Portrayal of Will Rogers - opening of
the tent - Corner of 19th and N Street - Belleville,
Kansas.
7:30 p.m. - Portrayal of Franklin D. Roosevelt -
tent.
Friday, June 11,
2010
9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. - Dust Bowl Exhibit - Republic
County Historical Society Museum - 615 28th Street (HWY 36) -
Belleville, Kansas.
10:00 a.m. - 11:30 a.m. - Dear Eleanor, Dear
Michelle - Central Christian Church - 24th
& O Street - Belleville, Kansas. the workshop
will introduce children to Eleanor Roosevelt and how she received
300,000 letters in her first year as the First
Lady. It will show examples of what it was like to be a
child in the 1930's. At the workshop's end,
participants will be invited to write a letter to First Lady
Michelle Obama.
10:30 a.m. - Crisis and the Role of the Demagogue -
by Fred Krebs -
1:00 p.m. - 7:00 p.m. - Youth Camp -
1:00 p.m. - What Do Historians Say? - by Patrick
McGinnis -
3:00 p.m. - Huey Long and State Innovation - by Fred
Krebs -
6:00 p.m. - Youth Performances - Tent.
7:30 p.m. - Portrayal of Aimee Semple McPherson -
Tent.
Saturday, June 12,
2010
7:00 a.m. - Breakfast - Boy Scouts -
9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. - Dust Bowl Exhibit - Republic
County Historical Society Museum - 615 28th Street (HWY 36) -
Belleville, Kansas.
10:30 a.m. - Go Gator and Muddy the Water - by Wanda
Schell -
1:00 p.m. - Agriculture Then and Now - by Patrick
McGinnis -
Local History Programs
7:00 p.m. Entertainment - Tent.
7:30 p.m. - Portrayal of Zora Neale Hurston - Tent.
Sunday, June 13,
2010
1:00 p.m. - 5:00 p.m. - Dust Bowl Exhibit - Republic
County Historical Society Museum - 615 28th Street (HWY 36) -
Belleville, Kansas.
3:00 p.m. - FEMA, and the Faithful - by Tonia
Compton -
7;00 p.m. - Portrayal of Will Rogers
-Tent.
7:30 p.m. - Portrayal of Huey Long -
Tent.
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