"The Highwaymen were a group of self-taught African American artists from Fort Pierce who painted their way out of poverty in the 1950s. While they have burst into Floridians' consciousness in recent years, Harold Newton-leader of the Highwaymen and major Florida landscape painter-will help bring them to national acclaim. Photographer/author Gary Monroe tells the story of Newton and the Highwaymen by providing an overview of quintessential paintings, featuring some of Newton's finest creations."
"Historians Susan Fernandez and Robert Ingalls highlight the central plots, environmental settings, and characters in movies with Florida themes using film clips, stills, and publicity posters. They show how depictions of Florida have changed in more than 300 films over the last century."
This workshop "will bring together a distinguished team of humanities scholars who will provide an interdisciplinary exploration of Hurston’s life and work. They include a literary scholar who has written extensively on Hurston; a folklorist who wrote the application that placed Eatonville on the Historic Register; a Hurston biographer; the director of the American Folk Life Center at the Library of Congress, where most of Hurston’s folklife collection resides; and a colleague of Hurston’s in the WPA. Participants will examine Hurston’s accomplishments within the context of the historical and cultural development of the Eatonville community. They will grapple with compelling questions about how this unique black enclave fueled Hurston’s appreciation of folk culture, inspired her literary works, created her racial identity, and formed her sometimes controversial views on race." It will include readings, lectures, discussions, visits to historic sites, and curriculum development projects. Specific topics will include "Hurston’s Eatonville Roots," "Inspiration for Hurston’s Racial and Gender Identity, Folkloric Research, and Literary Work," "The Harlem Renaissance and the WPA," "Humor and Religion," and "Fort Pierce: From Halcyon Days to Obscurity."
This workshop "will bring together a distinguished team of humanities scholars who will provide an interdisciplinary exploration of Hurston’s life and work. They include a literary scholar who has written extensively on Hurston; a folklorist who wrote the application that placed Eatonville on the Historic Register; a Hurston biographer; the director of the American Folk Life Center at the Library of Congress, where most of Hurston’s folklife collection resides; and a colleague of Hurston’s in the WPA. Participants will examine Hurston’s accomplishments within the context of the historical and cultural development of the Eatonville community. They will grapple with compelling questions about how this unique black enclave fueled Hurston’s appreciation of folk culture, inspired her literary works, created her racial identity, and formed her sometimes controversial views on race." It will include readings, lectures, discussions, visits to historic sites, and curriculum development projects. Specific topics will include "Hurston’s Eatonville Roots," "Inspiration for Hurston’s Racial and Gender Identity, Folkloric Research, and Literary Work," "The Harlem Renaissance and the WPA," "Humor and Religion," and "Fort Pierce: From Halcyon Days to Obscurity."
This workshop "will bring together a distinguished team of humanities scholars who will provide an interdisciplinary exploration of Hurston’s life and work. They include a literary scholar who has written extensively on Hurston; a folklorist who wrote the application that placed Eatonville on the Historic Register; a Hurston biographer; the director of the American Folk Life Center at the Library of Congress, where most of Hurston’s folklife collection resides; and a colleague of Hurston’s in the WPA. Participants will examine Hurston’s accomplishments within the context of the historical and cultural development of the Eatonville community. They will grapple with compelling questions about how this unique black enclave fueled Hurston’s appreciation of folk culture, inspired her literary works, created her racial identity, and formed her sometimes controversial views on race." It will include readings, lectures, discussions, visits to historic sites, and curriculum development projects. Specific topics will include "Hurston’s Eatonville Roots," "Inspiration for Hurston’s Racial and Gender Identity, Folkloric Research, and Literary Work," "The Harlem Renaissance and the WPA," "Humor and Religion," and "Fort Pierce: From Halcyon Days to Obscurity."
The Berkeley Architectural Heritage Association is an educational and preservation advocacy organization. The association strives to further public interest in Berkeley, California's architectural history.
The association offers tours and lectures. These events do not occur on a regular schedule, and the tours appear to be annual.
Inscription Rock, on the south shore of Kelleys Island, is marked with prehistoric Indian pictographs. The flat-topped limestone slab displays carvings of animals and human figures. Discovered partly buried in the shoreline in 1833, the 32-foot-by-21-foot rock is now entirely exposed. Much eroded by the elements, it is now protected by a roof and viewing platform. Archaeologists believe the inscriptions date from sometime between AD 1200 and 1600.
The site is open to the public.
Website does not specify any interpretive services available at the site.
The Center promotes the arts at Tiverton Four Corners and the surrounding Coastal Village communities. The Center is located in the historic Soule-Seabury House, built circa 1800. The site includes over an acre of landscaped grounds which are used for exhibits, concerts, outdoor dance, sculpture, theater, and a variety of other special events.
Appears to be dedicated to arts education, not history education.
The New York Folklore Society is focused on being the leading resource for showcasing and disseminating research and information regarding folk art and folklore throughout the state.
The society offers exhibits of folk art, guided tours of sites of interest throughout the state, and a variety of special events. The website offers an events calendar, a "what is folklore" section, and information about programs and services offered by the society.
Seems more a professional and umbrella organization than oriented towards K12-applicable education.
Lafayette Square is St. Louis's oldest historic district and was declared a National Historic District in 1979. The neighborhood surrounds a 30-acre Victorian park that is the oldest park west of the Mississippi River. The park serves as the hub for 375 Victorian homes of French Second Empire, Romanesque, Italianate, Queen Anne, and Federal designs. The Lafayette Square Restoration Committee has worked to restore over 90 percent of these homes to their original states.
The Committee sponsors several activities and programs throughout the year, including house and garden tours as well as a free concert series. The website offers historical information regarding the neighborhood, an events calendar, library access, and several photo galleries of the neighborhood.
Neighborhood preservation organization, not oriented to education.