Centennial Sponsors - Colorado Humanities

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Centennial Sponsors
Event Sponsors
Benefactor Sponsors
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Littler Youth Fund at
Patron Sponsors
Chautauqua Sponsors
Reva and Dick Bond
Guaranty Bank and Trust Company
Sallie Johnson
Kenny’s Steak House and Catering 1310 KFKA Pirate 104.7 Radio
Point Source Audio
Taqueria Los Comales and Tortilleria Tortilla and Bakery
Texas Roadhouse
Todd Family Foundation
Tointon Family Foundation University of Colorado Health
Advantage Bank
Anderson & Whitney
Cache Bank and Trust
Centennial Rotary Club
Bill and Kay Duff
Ehrlich Toyota
First National Bank
Ghent Chevrolet Cadillac
Greeley Chamber of Commerce/Visit Greeley Greeley Rotary Club
JBS
Richard & Mary Kemme
Lidiak Photography
Pepsi Beverage Company
Sears Real Estate
Weld County Garage, Inc.
Your Place Coffee
Witwer, Oldenburg, Barry & Johnson
Support local businesses that support
High Plains Chautauqua.
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Special Contributors
Ameriprise Financial/Larry Hubbard
Austin’s Homestead
Bittersweet Liquor
Consider It There
The Delta Kappa Gamma Society
Eaton Grove Landscape & Nursery
FASTSIGNS Greeley
Fat Albert’s Restaurant
Greeley Freight Station Museum
Jordan Kemme
King Soopers Kiwanis Club of Greeley
Lincoln Park Emporium
Monroe Organic Farms
Nordy’s Bar-B-Que & Grill
Northern Colorado Retired Educators Association
S&B Porta Bowl Restrooms
Sam’s Club
Shirazi Benefits
TCBY Frozen Yogurt
Thomas & Tyler LLC, The Notestine Family
Total Spectrum/Steve Gordon and Associates
University of Northern Colorado Theatre Department Village Inn Pancake House & Restaurant
Individual Donors
Steering Committees
Thank you to the following individual donors who have generously
contributed to High Plains Chautauqua.
Jane Adams, Director
Alan & Joyce Ackerman
John & Jane Adams
Dr. & Mrs. Douglas W. Armbrust
Phyllis & Hugh Arnold
Bill & Stephanie Arries
Harry & Sara (Sally) Asmus
Judy Baker
Bartels Family
Dede Bischoff
Stanley & Marjorie Black
Jan & John Blake
Mary Borg
Sherrill Bostron
Carol & Glenn Brickley
Bruce & Kay Broderius
Donna & Alex Bufmack
Randy & Carol Bussey
Doug & Pat Campbell
Kathryn A. Christmann
Scott & Karen Clugston
Kitty Cottingham
Maggie Coval
Don & Dorothy Cummins
Margery Curtiss
Bill & Noblet Danks
Marsha L. Davis
Brint & Carolyn Deighton
Corny Dietz
Thomas & Janis Dunn
Ron & Thelma Edgerton
Betty Jo Ehn
Harold & Carol Evans
Rev. Sylvia Falconer
David & Nancy Fehl
Don & Audrey Feldhaus
Karen & Gary Fentiman
Sue Carol Francis
Mike & Helen Geile
Gale & Karen Giebler
Glenda & Dave Goeglein
Karen & Wes Goehring
Laurie & Bob Guthmann
Tony & Susan Herold
Glenn & Lee Hewitt
Dick & Jean Hoffman
Jean Hoshiko
Elsie Hunter
Terry L. Hunter
Bill & Sue Hurt
Marion & Ted Jobe
Gordon Johnson
Korwin & Marlyss Johnson
Dr. LaRue & Mary Johnson
Steven & Sue Kading
Bob & Monica Kahn
Doug & Emily Kemme
Drs. Bernie & Ginny Kinnick
Gene & Peggy Koplitz
Cathy Lasell
Ila Leavy
Don Martin
Ernie Martin
Richard & Barbara Maxfield
Russ & Pat Mayer
John & Elinor McGinn
Robert & Mary Merz
Judith & George Meyers
Diane & Bob Miller
Susanne Miller
Caroline & John Mills
Harriet Monsees
Dean & Lee Moore
Pete & Jean Morrell
Don & JoAnn Mueller
Norm & Marty Noe
Ken Norem & Sandy Magnuson
Bonny McNerney
Joy Nusca
Neva K. Ochs
F.G. & Betty Ottesen
Diane Peake
Sylvia Perchlik
Herschel R. Phelps, Jr./Ruth Kay Francis
Jim & Vicky Philips
Lowel & Annie May Pierce
Ken & Beth Richards
Walt & Judy Richter
Rick’s Appliance Parts, Inc.
Barry & Margaret Rothaus
Gail & Mary Rowe
Lydia & Bob Ruyle
Julie Sauter
Larry & Kris Scovil
Jim & Pam Shaddock
Jeannine & Gerald Shadwick
Lee & Carol Shropshire
Hugh & Aletha Silcox
Howard & Beverly Skinner
Al & Kay Slighter
Pat & Dorothy Sullivan
Verniece Thomas
Doriann Thompson
Linda & Dan Trimberger
LeeAnne & Rod Unrein
Jim & Michele Vetting
Wally Wahlen
Rob & Peggy Waldo
Roy Wardell
Phil & Betty Weber
Bill & Sylvia Webster
Roy & Sally Wehde
Jerry & Nancy Weil
Betty Whitson
Ron Wildeman
Louise Williamson
Ray & Alice Yockey
Dave & Mary Young
Patsy Zick
Anonymous
Thank you to Aims Community College for continuing to be a most gracious host of High
Plains Chautauqua (HPC). Aims participated with the steering committee in the planning of
our inaugural HPC in the year 2000, and they continue to welcome High Plains Chautauqua to
the Greeley campus. As needs for the comfort and safety of participants are brought to their
attention, they respond.
Examples of their assistance in producing
High Plains Chautauqua:
 Graphic design services to produce HPC
brochures and program guides
 Attention to every detail by Facilities &
Operations staff
 A security officer on duty through the
night to protect equipment
 HPC tent site sprayed for mosquitoes
 Enlarged handicapped parking area
 And new this year, golf carts for those
needing assistance from the parking lot
to the Big Tent
As guests of Aims Community College we
show our appreciation by observing some
necessary rules:
 Alcohol is not allowed on any Aims
Community College campus, except for
specific occasions, requiring prior
approval from the college and local
permitting jurisdiction.
 Only service dogs are allowed on
campus.
 Please observe handicapped parking
areas.
 No parking on the street.
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Program Committee
Bill Armstrong,
Greeley Museums
Pat Campbell, Volunteers
Maggie Coval,
Colorado Humanities
Bill Duff, Consultant
Ron Edgerton, Kickoff Reception, Consultant
Thelma Bear Edgerton, Young Chautauqua
Peggy Ford Waldo,
Greeley Museums
Karen Giebler,
Youth Programs
Ann Grotness,
Aims Community College
Josephine Jones,
Colorado Humanities
Jerry Neff, Database
Gail Rowe
Historical Consultant
Bryan VanDriel,
Site & Logistics
Marketing Committee
Jana Caldwell, Coordinator
Allyson Byerly
Eileen Huff Gibson
Mike Hausmann
Betty Hinze
Cathy Lasell
Jenna Oliver
LeeAnn Sterling
Development Team
Emily Kemme, Coordinator
Dick Bond
Pete Morrell
Gwen Neff
Norm Noe
Alexia Peake
Tom Selders
Michelle Silva
Food Vending
Lucie Wisehart, Co-coordinator
Karoline Woodruff,
Co-coordinator
Kris Bruntz
Views, findings, conclusions, or
recommendations expressed in this
program do not necessarily reflect those
of the National Endowment
for the Humanities.
to the 14th annual High Plains
Chautauqua, a living history festival that recreates the
traveling tent Chautauqua tradition of the early 20th
century. The August 6-10, 2013 festival theme is Exploring
Boundaries. Boundaries are not confined to lines on a
map. Limitations of the mind, of beliefs and cultures, of
science and of ethics are part of the human experience.
Individuals featured in this year’s program confronted and
explored obstacles as they related to geography, industry,
Map
Food Tent Menus
Greeley Senior
Activities Center
Greeley History
Museum
7th St
8th St
9th St
Kress Cinema
and Lounge
8th Ave
10th Ave
US 34
Farr Branch
Library
Farr Park
NORTH
US 85
Saturday, August 10
JBS Burgers and Brats
Nordy’s BBQ baked beans, Austin’s Homestead cole slaw
Monroe Organic Farms
selection of organic melons
G
11th Ave
26th St
17th Ave
61st Ave
Friday, August 9
Taqueria Los Comales &
Tortilleria Tortilla & Bakery
chicken fajitas
chips & salsa
rice & beans
churros & Vanilla Ice Cream
Village Inn pies 35th Ave
47th Ave
50th Ave
52nd Ave
59th Ave
10th St
AIMS COLLEGE
The Big Tent
5401 W. 20th St. 20th St
To Greeley
Wednesday, August 7
Texas Roadhouse pulled pork sandwiches and cole slaw
Fat Albert’s carrot cake
Thursday, August 8
Kenny’s Steak House and Catering
meatloaf and mashed potatoes brownies & cookies
A St
6th St
US 34
Your purchase of a $7 dinner
helps support HPC!
US 85
Monfort
Children’s
Clinic
83rd Ave
Tuesday, August 6
Kickoff reception for donors~ Invitation only
Italian spaghetti dinner sponsored by
Cables Pub & Grill
TCBY Frozen Yogurt
Jesus Rodarte
Cultural Cetner
To Fort Collins
Interstate 25
Thank you to our
restaurant sponsors and to
Guaranty Bank and Trust
Company for sponsoring
the food tent.
race, gender and culture.
To Denver
Map is NOT to scale
Addresses
Aims Community College, 5401 West 20th St.
(The Big Tent on Athletic Field, Ed Beaty Hall)
Farr Branch Library, 1939 61st Ave.
Farr Park, 13th Ave. and 26th St. Greeley
Greeley Senior Activities Center, 1010 6th St.
Special thanks to these volunteers who are
serving you at the food tent:
Captains for each evening – Members of
the Greeley After Hours Rotary Club
Tuesday...........The Success Foundation
Serving Greeley-Evans Schools
Board of Directors
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Kress Cinema and Lounge, 817 8th Ave.
Monfort Children’s Clinic, 100 North 11th Ave.
Jesus Rodarte Cultural Center, 920 A St.
For a map of downtown Greeley and parking, go
to www.greeleydowntown.com.
Wednesday....Weld County Sheriff’s
Department
Thursday.........Kiwanis Club of Greeley
Friday...............Greeley Rotary Club and
Rotary Youth Leadership Award (RYLA) students
Saturday..........Ron Wieneke, the “Grill Meister”
UNC Freshman Football Players
Week’s Events at a Glance
Pre-Events
Friday, August 2, 6:30 pm
Film screening:
Touch of Evil
Post-screening discussion
facilitated by Gail Rowe,
Ron Edgerton, and
David Caldwell
Farr Branch Library
Monday, August 5
6:30 – 8:00 pm
Greeley Museums
Walking Tour: Hillside/Farr
Neighborhood
Led by Betsy Kellums
Starting location:
Farr Park Shelter
Tuesday,
August 6
Youth Programs
Jesus Rodarte Cultural
Center
1:30 – 2:30 pm
(Ages 8 and 11)
Once Upon a Time Frankenstein
Susan Marie Frontczak
2:30 - 4:30 pm
(Ages 6 - 11)
Exploring Kids’ Arts &
Crafts Boundaries
Make & Take Activities
Kickoff Reception
By invitation only
Sponsored by Cables Pub
& Grill
Big Tent
5:30 – 7:00 pm
For sponsors, Chautauqua
scholars, Young
Chautauquans, presenters
and volunteers.
Music by
Camp Daddy & Son
Bluegrass
Evening Programs
Big Tent, Aims Community
College
Free and open to
the public
7:00 – 7:45 pm
Young Chautauqua
Cameos:
Hannah Kerkes as
Clara Barton
Ilse Montes as LaMalinche
Dante Quezada as
J.R.R. Tolkien
7:45 – 9:00 pm
Bill Barker as
Thomas Jefferson
Wednesday,
August 7
8:00 – 9:15 am
Coffee & Conversation
with Chautauquans
Ed Beaty Hall
Student Lounge
Adult Programs
Thursday,
August 8
8:00 – 9:15 am
with Chautauquans
Ed Beaty Hall
Student Lounge
Adult Programs
Ed Beaty Hall
Black Box Theatre
Ed Beaty Hall
Black Box Theatre
9:30 – 10:30 am
Crossing the Divide
of Race
Charles Pace
9:30 – 10:30 am
A Nation Founded on
Principle
Bill Barker as
Thomas Jefferson
10:45 – 11:45 am
Jefferson on Religion
and Slavery
Bill Barker as
Thomas Jefferson
1:00 – 2:00 pm
WASPs - Fly Girls of
World War II
Elsa Wolff
2:15 - 3:15 pm
Andrew Carnegie and the
League of Peace
Jeff Smith
All Ages
Big Tent
10:00 am – 4:00 pm
Young Chautauqua
Presentations
Evening Programs
Big Tent
5:30 – 7:00 pm
Food Vending Tent:
Texas Roadhouse
6:00 - 6:50 pm
Performance by
Dance Factory
7:00 – 9:00 pm
Amelia (Newport) Wagner
as Margaret Mead
Hank Fincken as
Francisco Pizarro
10:45 – 11:45 am
America Today: Fighting
to Maintain the Peace
Hank Fincken
1:00 – 2:00 pm
Well-Behaved Women
Rarely Make History
Mary Jane Bradbury
2:15 – 3:15 pm
A Jungian Reading of
Moby-Dick
George Frein
Youth Programs
(Ages 8 - 12)
Monfort Children’s Clinic
Community Room
2:00 - 3:00 pm
If You Were a Millionaire
Jeff Smith
3:00 - 4:00 pm
A Belly Whopper, a Roller
Coaster, and a Yellow
Canary!
Elsa Wolff as
Amelia Earhart
Evening Programs
Big Tent
5:30 – 7:00 pm
Food Vending Tent:
Kenny’s Meatloaf
5:45 - 6:45 pm
The Matt Pack
Classical Standards
7:00 – 9:00 pm
Charles Pace as
Booker T. Washington
Jeff Smith as
Andrew Carnegie
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Friday,
August 9
8:00 – 9:15 am
with Chautauquans
Greeley Senior Activities
Center Dining Room
Saturday,
August 10
8:00 – 9:15 am
with Chautauquans
Kress Cinema Lounge
Adult Programs
Adult Programs
Greeley Senior Activities
Center Dining Room
Morning: Kress Cinema
Lounge
9:30 – 10:30 am
Pushing Boundaries –
Musically Speaking
Elsa Wolff
9:30 – 11:00 am
A Conversation with
Orson Welles
Gil Moon as Orson Welles
Film discussion facilitated
by David Caldwell
10:45 – 11:45 am
The 21st Century
Implications of Booker
T. Washington’s Ideas on
Education
Charles Pace
1:00 – 2:00 pm
General Clark’s
Front Porch
Jeff Smith as
William Clark
2:15 – 3:15 pm
The Pivotal Role of
Colorado Statehood in
the 1876 Presidential
Election
Evening Programs
Big Tent, Aims Community
College
5:30 – 7:00 pm
Food Vending Tent:
Taqueria Los Comales
5:45 - 6:45 pm
Board of Directors
Swing Band Music
7:00 – 9:00 pm
George Frein as
Carl Jung
Susan Marie Frontczak as
Mary Shelley
Afternoon: Greeley Senior
Activities Center
Dining Room
1:00 – 2:00 pm
Grappling with the
Monster
2:15 – 3:15 pm
Jung’s Red Book
George Frein
Evening Programs
Big Tent
5:30 – 7:00 pm
Food Vending Tent:
JBS Burgers & Brats
6:00 - 6:50 pm
The Dana Landry
Quartet
Jazz
7:00 – 9:00 pm
Jeff Smith as
General William Clark
Elsa Wolff as
Amelia Earhart
This unique combination of
HISTORY AND LIVE THEATER
delivers an evening of entertainment
and education like no other!
Politicians, writers, theologians and distinguished speakers
and entertainers such as President Warren G. Harding, the
young Edgar Bergen with his puppet Charlie McCarthy, Carl
Sandburg, historian Ida Tarbell, William Jennings Bryan, and
evangelist Billy Sunday appeared on the Chautauqua circuit.
Music was also an important feature of Chautauqua.
The traveling tent shows became an integral part of small
town Americana. At their peak, they appeared in over 10,000
communities to more than 45 million people. However, in
the 1920s increased mobility, radio and the talking pictures,
and a change in the national attitude brought an end to the
movement. The Roaring Twenties were a time of fun, frolic
and far less concern about self-improvement and inspirational
messages.
In the 1970s, Everett Albers, North Dakota Humanities
Council Executive Director, launched the modern humanities
Chautauqua as a series of scholars offering first-person
interpretations of historical figures. In costume, the
History of the Tent Chautauqua
The tent Chautauqua, of which High Plains Chautauqua is
an example, is often confused with the Colorado Chautauqua
Association in Boulder and the Chautauqua Institution at Lake
Chautauqua, New York. While all were founded with the same
ideals of educational enrichment and self-improvement, their
origins and format are quite different.
Lake Chautauqua, New York
The first Chautauqua, in New York State originated in
1874 as a Methodist Sunday school teacher summer training
camp and evolved into a popular educational summer camp
for families. It is sometimes called the Mother Chautauqua
because many independent “daughter” Chautauquas
developed after the same pattern, in permanent facilities.
At the height of their popularity several hundred existed,
including Palmer Lake, near Colorado Springs, and the
Boulder Chautauqua.
An early tent Chautauqua
Chautauqua scholar delivers monologues using the historical
figure’s words and then answers questions from the audience
as that person would have. Finally, the scholar steps out of
character to answer questions that often explore how lessons
from that character’s life and philosophy relate to us today.
Several other state humanities councils followed suit.
Colorado Humanities launched High Plains Chautauqua in
Greeley in August 2000. It quickly grew to be a full five-day
living history festival attracting attendance numbers of over
7,000 each year. Colorado Humanities later also partnered
with Grand Junction and Pueblo communities for two-day
festivals in each of those locations.
Palmer Lake Chautauqua
Keith Vawter, an owner of the Red Path Lyceum started
the circuit, or tent, Chautauqua in 1904 as a way to provide
rural America with programs similar to those being offered in
Chicago's Redpath Lyceum.
A tent Chautauqua stayed in a community from five to
seven days and offered a variety of cultural events morning,
afternoon and evening. It then moved on to another
community.
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Tuesday, August 6
Youth Programs
Jesus Rodarte Cultural Center
920 A St.
(Ages 6 - 11)
Exploring Kids’ Arts & Crafts
Boundaries Make & Take Activities
1:30 to 2:30 pm
(Ages 8 - 11)
Once upon a Time – Frankenstein
There will be two sessions: 2:30 and 3:30. Each of the
two activities will last one hour and will be repeated in
the next hour. Children may stay for both or come for the
activity of their choice.
Mary Shelley tells the story of Frankenstein in simplified
form, and raises questions of the participants: Should
Victor Frankenstein build a companion for his Creature
or not? Is anyone ever justified in throwing a tantrum?
What happens when someone is judged by his/her
looks? During the last 15 to 20 minutes of the one-hour
workshop the children are invited to draw a picture that
illustrates one of the ideas they want to take home from
the discussion.
Create a Parfleche
Deanna Rohnke
Design and create a parfleche such as was used by
Plains Indians to carry their personal items from place
to place. If you had been with Lewis and Clark on their
journey to explore the Louisiana Purchase, perhaps you
would have had use for a parfleche.
Parfleche were “suitcases” for the nomadic tribes
of the plains. The traditional shape of parfleche was
rectangular with folded sides and ends to keep their
personal items safe and contained. Some of them were
shaped like a tube to accommodate feathers. Others
were box-shaped for carrying clothing and larger items.
The boxes were as big as one to three feet long.
Originally parfleche were made from rawhide – we will
improvise!!
Exploring Negative and
Positive Space
Karen Inglis with the assistance of Judith Meyers
All that is needed to create beautiful artwork using
negative and positive space is a pair of scissors and
colored paper. This process involves carefully cutting
an image out of paper so that it remains in one piece,
allowing the finished product to appear to be floating.
This activity promotes an awareness of shape and
space. It is certainly a way of “exploring the boundaries”
of art using paper and scissors.
2:30 to 4:30 pm
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Tuesday, August 6
Evening Programs
7:00 – 9:00 pm
Under the Big Tent
5401 West 20th Street
Kickoff Reception
5:30 to 7:00 pm
By invitation only for sponsors, Chautauqua scholars,
Young Chautauquans, presenters, and volunteers.
Buffet sponsored by Cables Pub & Grill.
Music by Camp Daddy & Son, an American-made band playing and
preserving American music that was born in old Appalachia, as well
as new music written by members of Camp Daddy & Son to reflect
Welsh, Scottish and Irish roots of Appalachian style.
Become a High Plains Chautauqua donor and you, too, will be invited
to this lively annual kickoff.
7:00 to 7:45 pm
Young Chautauqua Cameos
Sponsored by Advantage Bank
CLARA BARTON
by Hannah Kerkes
LA MALINCHE
by Ilse Montes
Clara Barton was a nurse,
teacher, humanitarian, and clerk in
Washington D.C. She worked outside
the home at a time when few women
did. Clara Barton’s father persuaded
her to care for the soldiers on the
Civil War battlefield. She was shy
and happiest when she had a job to
do. Clara is probably best known for
starting the American Red Cross. She
lived a long life, dying at 90 years of
age.
Hannah Kerkes will be a 6th grade
student at Chappelow Arts Magnet
School. This is her first year in Young
Chautauqua. She loves to play the
clarinet and the piano, enjoys making
up games and songs to play with
her little sister, and has earned an
orange belt at the Colorado Chapter
of Modern Arnis. In her spare time
Hannah likes to draw, sew, sing,
paint, and create exploding science
experiments. Reading is one of her
favorite things to do.
La Malinche was an Aztec woman
in the 1500s. She was the interpreter,
adviser and intermediary for the
Spanish conquistador Hernan Cortes.
She is considered the symbolic
mother of the Mestizo people
because she had a son with Cortes.
Ilse Montes completed 8th grade
at Chappelow Arts Magnet School.
This is her fourth year as a Young
Chautauqua scholar. Some characters
she has portrayed in the past are
Bruce Lee and Mother Teresa. Ilse
says that she is always determined
to do her best and she hopes to
continue to be a Chautauquan when
she goes to high school this fall.
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J.R.R. TOLKIEN
by Dante Quezada
Of the many iconic literary figures
to come out of the 20th century, it
is possible that none may be quite
as well-known as J.R.R. Tolkien.
He faced many trials in his life that
undoubtedly led to his unique writing
style. Tolkien experienced his world
from industrialized cities to the lush
English country side. He experienced
the horrors of World War One and
used them to further his writings.
J.R.R. Tolkien’s writings led to a
rebirth of the fantasy genre, creating
entire languages for the beings that
inhabited his novels. These novels
have survived the test of time and
inspire writers to this day.
Dante Quezada is a student at
University High School with interests
in writing, reading, and slaying
dragons. His hobbies include acting,
poetry, and fantasy card games.
Dante is an inducted thespian and
this is his sixth year as a Young
Chautauqua scholar.
7:45 to 9:00 pm
Tuesday, August 6
Evening Programs
THOMAS JEFFERSON (1742-1826)
by Bill Barker
Sponsored by Noble Energy, Inc.
homas Jefferson was born in
Shadwell, Virginia, a few miles east
of Charlottesville. The eldest son of a
prominent Albemarle County planter,
Jefferson was one of 10 children. His
father died when he was 14, and later
he set out to pursue an education in
Williamsburg, the colonial capital of
Virginia. There he attended William and
Mary College and studied law under
the tutelage of the famed legal scholar,
George Wythe. He was admitted to the
Virginia bar in 1767 and practiced law for
seven years until the Courts of Justice in
Virginia were closed down by the British
Parliament.
In 1769, at the age of 26, Jefferson
entered public service when elected
to the Virginia House of Burgesses. He
represented that colony in the Continental
Congress (1775-1776), where he drafted
the Declaration of Independence. He was
appointed the author of the Declaration in
large measure because of his reputation
as the eloquent author of A Summary
View of the Rights of British America
(1774).
In the House of Burgesses he supported
measures to guarantee “a government
truly republican,” including the abolition
of entails and primogeniture, the
separation between church and state, the
creation of a public school system, and
the restriction of the international slave
trade.
Jefferson served as governor of Virginia
between 1779 and 1781, and after the
Revolution was elected to the U.S.
Congress where he helped to write the
Land Ordinance of 1784 that provided a
format for creating new western territories
and states. Between 1785 and 1789 he
discharged his duties as U.S. Minister to
France. He became George Washington’s
first Secretary of State and acted in that
capacity for three years before resigning.
His political career continued to expand
after 1790: he became one of the leaders
of the Anti-Federalist movement, was
elected Vice-President in John Adams’
administration, and then was himself
elected President in 1801. His presidency
(1801-1809) witnessed an adherence to
economy; a successful war against the
Barbary pirates; purchase of the Louisiana
Territory; promotion of the Lewis and Clark
and Zebulon Pike exploratory western
expeditions; and aggressive protection of
American self-sufficiency, neutral rights,
and a less invasive federal government.
“As God is a just
God he cannot
but abhor the
institution of
slavery.”
Following his presidency Jefferson
founded the University of Virginia
and worked to complete his home at
Monticello. Throughout Jefferson’s long
life, conventional wisdom regarding
religious, political, economic, racial, and
philosophical issues challenged and
stimulated in him a lifetime of intellectual
questioning and alternate proposals. He
died at Monticello on July 4 at the age
of 83.
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BILL BARKER
For nearly 30 years Bill Barker has
portrayed Thomas Jefferson in a
variety of settings including Colonial
Williamsburg since 1993. Born and reared
in Philadelphia, he received a Bachelor
of Arts degree in history from Villanova
University and attended the University of
Pennsylvania briefly before entering the
theatre. He has performed as Jefferson in
the musical 1776; at Monticello; Thomas
Jefferson’s Poplar Forest; The White
House; U.S. Capitol; National Archives;
F.B.I. Headquarters; NASA Headquarters;
the Palace of Versailles; and throughout
the United States, Great Britain, and
France.
He presents for various Chautauqua
programs, including the alliance between
Colonial Williamsburg and the National
Chautauqua at Jamestown, N.Y. Bill has
been featured as Jefferson in several
magazines and has appeared as Jefferson
in programs aired on ABC, NBC, CBS,
PBS, CNN, C-SPAN and Comedy Central’s
Stephen Colbert Report, and this past winter
in the PBS “First Freedom: The Fight for
Religious Liberty.”
He is the Jefferson image in the
Visitors Center videos at the Jefferson
Memorial in Washington, D.C.,
Monticello and the Virginia State Capitol.
RECOMMENDED READING
Jefferson, Thomas. Thomas Jefferson: Writings:
Autobiography / Notes on the State of Virginia /
Public and Private Papers / Addresses / Letters.
Library of America, 1984.
Malone, Dumas. Thomas Jefferson and His Times.
University of Virginia Press, 2007.
Nock, Albert Jay. Mr. Jefferson. Hallberg Pub
Corp, 1983.
Padover, Saul K. The Complete Jefferson.
Tudor Publishing Company, 1943.
Randall, Willard Sterne. Thomas Jefferson: A Life.
Harper Perennial, 1994.
Wednesday, August 7
Adult Programs
Ed Beaty Hall Black Box Theatre
8:00 to 9:15 am
with Chautauquan
Bill Barker
Ed Beaty Hall Student Lounge,
Aims Community College,
5401 W. 20th Street
9:30 to 10:30 am
Crossing the Divide of Race
1:00 to 2:00 pm
WASPs – Fly Girls of World War II
Charles Pace
Elsa Wolff
The great boundary of race divided Americans during
“the Age of Booker T. Washington” (1895-1915). This
boundary was centered in the ideology of “white
supremacy.” This seminar will explore these questions:
What do we mean by “race”? How has this meaning
changed in biological, psychological, anthropological,
social, religious, and political terms since the age of
Washington? What role did black and white educators
such as Washington, Franz Boas (anthropologist) and W.
E. B. Du Bois (historian/sociologist) play in changing the
meaning of the concept of race in American society?
Amelia Earhart disappeared in 1937, but many women
pilots were still flying and making their mark in the air.
With their country at war, women suddenly found their
roles, opportunities and responsibilities expanded. A
select group of young women pilots led by successful
aviatrix Jackie Cochran pushed back boundaries to
become pioneers, heroes, and role models. They were
the Women Airforce Service Pilots (WASP), the first
women in history trained to fly American military aircraft.
Composite character Edith “Eddy” Moore will
reminisce about training, duty throughout the war and
the battle for recognition after the war ended. Photos
and memorabilia will be a part of this workshop.
10:45 to 11:45 am
Jefferson on Religion and Slavery
2:15 to 3:15 pm
Andrew Carnegie and the
League of Peace
Bill Barker as Thomas Jefferson
Jefferson spent a lifetime pondering the foundations of
morality, perusing inspired religious texts, and extolling
the value of religious institutions. His principal religious
tenets and the emphasis he placed on particular religious
views and organizational structures changed dramatically
over time. Yet whatever stage of personal evolution
he was in at a given time, he continued to believe that
the highest goal of religion was to create and sustain
righteousness and to provide the authority or inspiration
for individuals to live up to essential moral principles
shared by all peoples, whatever their culture.
A fundamental credo of American society, according
to Jefferson, was that it was “self- evident” that “all men
are created equal” and that they were endowed with
“certain inalienable rights, among them life, liberty, and
the pursuit of happiness.” Still, this apostle of liberty
struggled on a daily basis to reconcile his ideals of liberty
with the naked realities of American slavery at Monticello
and beyond. His multiple roles as slave owner, political
leader, and student of religions forged his views on
slavery in complex and at times contradictory ways. Here
Bill Barker as Thomas Jefferson discusses the Virginian’s
religious views and their role in shaping his attitudes
toward African Americans, slavery, the slave trade, and
emancipation.
Jeff Smith
While we think of Andrew Carnegie as an industrialist
who paid to build libraries, we lose sight of his work in
international relations. Using his published speech “A
League of Peace” as a foundation, this program will
explore Carnegie’s thoughts on how nations ought to
work together to achieve a stable world order. It will
encourage audiences to consider his views in light of
early 21st century global affairs.
When Carnegie sold his company to J. P. Morgan to
create U. S. Steel in 1901, it allowed him to devote all
his energies to philanthropy. International peace was
one goal Carnegie held dearly for some time; he led the
American delegation to the Peace Conference at The
Hague in 1887 and was an ardent opponent to American
imperialism, as was his good friend, Samuel Clemens. He
funded several “peace palaces” designed to facilitate
mediation as a way for nations to settle their differences,
including the one still standing in The Hague that
opened in the spring of 1914, just before the outbreak of
a war Carnegie wanted so much to avoid.
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Wednesday, August 7
Young Chautauqua Presentations
Cyrus Smith as NIKOLA TESLA
Cyrus Smith will be in the 7th grade at Chappelow Arts
Magnet School. He is good at technology and says he has
decent grades, plays the trumpet and likes animals.
Nikola Tesla (1856-1943) received good grades in school,
but in his work as an inventor
and electrical engineer he was
overshadowed by Thomas Edison
for most of his life. An ethnic
Serb, he came to the U.S. to work
for Edison, but then set out on
his own. He made an alternating
current motor and lit up the
World’s Fair in Chicago in 1893.
High Plains Chautauqua is proud to present our Young
Chautauqua scholars. These students have spent months
reading, researching, and presenting their characters to
different audiences. Young Chautauqua is a Colorado
Humanities program that has been developed and
supported by Greeley-Evans School District 6. Since the
program began 13 years ago, approximately 10,000 local
students have participated as audience members or by
researching and presenting a character.
This year 2,000 students participated in 20 school
programs. Teachers at each school worked with Young
Chautauqua scholars. In addition, a Colorado Humanitiestrained coach worked with students and teachers to teach
the Young Chautauqua model of learning history and to
refine presentation skills of those who chose to present a
character. Today’s portrayals are a sampling of the talented
students who researched and developed a wide and
interesting array of historic characters.
Hailey Dalton as CLARA SCHUMANN
Hailey has completed 6th grade at Chappelow Arts
Magnet School. She enjoys music and plays piano, violin,
and flute. Hailey also loves to
read, write and sing. She is the
youngest of seven children.
Clara Schumann (1819-1896)
was a child prodigy and the most
famous woman composer. She
wrote beautiful music that is still
played today. She edited and
published all of (her husband)
Robert Schumann’s work that is highly revered by classical
pianists. Also, Clara was the most famous female piano
performer in all of Europe. She had a 70-year performance
career.
Rosa Batrez as SUSAN B. ANTHONY
Rosa Batrez has completed the 6th grade at Brentwood
Middle School. She loves to play
the Wii and tetherball and to
watch TV. She especially enjoys
Young Chautauqua and always
works to do her best in it as well
as in school. She has presented to
several organizations in Greeley.
Susan B. Anthony (1820-1906)
fought for women’s right to vote.
She and Elizabeth Cady Stanton co-founded the National
Woman Suffrage Association. She was a driving force
for passage of what became, after her death, the 19th
amendment to the U.S. Constitution, giving women the
right to vote.
Abinadab Rodriguez as
LOTTIE MOON
Abi, as she likes to be called, is
11 years old and has completed
the 5th grade at Chappelow Arts
Magnet School. She loves acting
and has an eight-year-old sister.
Charlotte Digges “Lottie” Moon
(1840-1912) was one of the first
single women to go to China as a missionary. A member
of the Southern Baptist Church, she spent nearly 40 years
evangelizing in China.
Under the Big Tent
5401 West 20th Street,
10:00 am to 4:00 pm
ALL AGES
Hannah Kiburz as LUCILLE BALL
Hannah Kiburz will be an 8th grader at Chappelow Arts
Magnet School. She has been in Young Chautauqua
for four years and previously
performed as Annie Oakley, Anne
Frank, and Judy Garland. She also
performs in dance classes such as
ballet on pointe.
Lucille Ball (1911-1989) was
a wonderful comedian and an
exceptional business-woman. She
was the first woman to own a
television company, Desilu. She created the company with
her Cuban husband, Desi Arnaz. Lucille Ball is best known
for her role in I Love Lucy.
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Under the Big Tent
10:00 am to 4:00 pm
ALL AGES
Kathryn Broderius as KITTIE WILKINS
Kathryn Broderius loves to sing, hunt, and fish. Being
with friends and family in nature is her favorite thing to do.
She loves to go on walks with her
big yellow lab, Boomer. Kathryn
also likes horses and dogs. She
will be a 6th grader at Chappelow
Arts Magnet School this fall.
Kittie Wilkins (1857-1936) was
the first American woman to make
her living from horse dealing. She
was a blonde-haired, blue-eyed
fashionable lady. The men respected her as the boss of
her company. She sold horses to the cavalry and to shows
that used them for entertainment.
Hayden Hein as
JOSHUA L. CHAMBERLAIN
Hayden Hein will be a 6th
grader at Chappelow Arts Magnet
School, where he took 8th grade
math and 6th grade “Logic and
Reasoning” last school year. His
biggest passion is military history.
He enjoys Boy Scouts, learning
to play the cello, and challenging games of any kind. He
excels at math and reading.
Joshua Chamberlain (1828-1914) fought in many Civil
War battles, but he is best remembered for leading his
Maine infantrymen in defending Little Round Top at the
Battle of Gettysburg. He was a college professor and 32nd
governor of Maine.
Konnor Dilka as EDDIE RICKENBACKER
Konnor Dilka will be a 6th grader at Chappelow Arts
Magnet School. He says he loves to feel the wind in his
face just like Captain Rickenbacker did. Connor enjoys
NASCAR and planes, and that is
why he picked Eddie Rickenbacker
as his character.
Eddie Rickenbacker (1890-1973)
was an American Fighter Ace
in World War I and a Medal of
Honor winner. He was also a race
car driver and a pioneer in air
transportation. He loved to move
fast and feel the wind in his face. He embraced all aspects
of racing and flying.
Indigo Parlin as
FRANK THOMPSON
(SARAH EMMA EDMONDS)
Indigo Parlin has finished the
5th grade at Chappelow Arts
Magnet School. She likes crafts
and scrapbooking as well as tap
dancing. She also has fun playing
the piano and bassoon.
Sarah Emma Edmonds (1841-1898) disguised herself
as Frank Thompson in order to escape her father and
join the Union Army. She first served as a male nurse in
the army. She became the only woman to be admitted
to the Grand Army of the Republic, the Union soldiers’
veterans organization. She was Canadian-born and a very
adventurous person.
Kylie Worsham as ANNE FRANK
Kylie will be a 6th grader at Chappelow Arts Magnet
School. She loves to sing in the school choir. While she
enjoys hanging out and having fun with her friends, school
work and chores come first.
Anne Frank (1929-1945) is best
known for her famous diary. She
kept it from 1942-1944 during
the German occupation of the
Netherlands. She grew up happy,
experiencing what normal girls
her age learned. Her diary was
the basis for many films and plays.
Anne Frank and her sister died in a German concentration
camp in 1945.
Jordan Miller as HANNIBAL
Jordan will be a 6th grader at
Chappelow Arts Magnet School.
He loves to act and talk. He is very
interested in the pre-Middle and
Middle Ages in history. In 2011-12
he was in “To Kill a Mockingbird”
and “Annie Get Your Gun” at
Greeley West High School.
Hannibal (247-182 B.C.E) was a fearless leader who
occupied much of Italy for 15 years. In the 2nd Punic War
he marched his Carthaginian army (with war elephants)
over the Alps to surprise the Romans. He is considered
one of the greatest military commanders in history.
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Under the Big Tent
10:00 am to 4:00 pm
ALL AGES
Jermaine Gordo as NEIL ARMSTRONG
Jermaine has completed the 5th grade at East Memorial
Elementary School. He likes to play soccer and video
games. This is his third year as a
Young Chautauquan. His other
characters have been Jim Thorpe
and Skeets Calvin. Jermaine likes
to make people laugh.
Neil Armstrong (1930-2012)
was the first person to set foot on
the moon on July 20, 1969. His
famous quote is “One small step
for man; one giant leap for mankind.” Mr. Armstrong was
a U.S Naval officer who served in the Korean War. He was
also an aerospace engineer and a university professor.
Martin Lahman as
JOHN CHAPMAN
Martin will be in the 2nd grade
at Chappelow Arts Magnet School.
He likes Young Chautauqua and
has previously acted in plays such
as “The Little Princess.” Along
with acting, he enjoys learning
about history and geography. He
also enjoys running and raising
chickens.
John Chapman (Johnny Appleseed, 1774 – 1845)
planted nurseries of apple trees in Pennsylvania, Ohio,
Indiana, and Illinois. He did not believe in killing any living
thing, not even mosquitos. He lived a simple life, traveling
widely, preaching the gospel, and singing the song: “Oh,
the Lord is Good to Me. . . .”
Saul Naranjo as ULYSSES S. GRANT
Saul has completed the 3rd grade at East Memorial
Elementary School. He is a nine-year-old boy who hopes
to be a famous soccer player. His
favorite war to learn about is the
Civil War.
A fun fact about Ulysses S.
Grant (1822-1885) is that he liked
to swing on the tail of his dad’s
horse. That must have helped him
to feel comfortable on a horse,
because when he went to the
Military Academy at West Point he was regarded as one of
the best horsemen in academy history. Grant became the
top general of the Union Army during the Civil War and
was the 18th president of the United States.
Alejandro Hernandez as NAPOLEON
Alejandro will be in the 5th
grade at East Memorial Elementary
School and enjoys playing the
accordion. He also likes to play in
the water and the snow and hopes
to be a scientist to help the earth.
Alejandro says that he wants to
help people who have problems.
Napoleon Bonaparte (1769-1821) was a great military
leader who was emperor of France. His armies conquered
much of Europe before his defeat at Waterloo. He is
known as one of the greatest military leaders of all time,
and his strategies are studied at
military academies worldwide.
Kaitlyn Frank as ANNE FRANK
Kaitlyn Frank will be a
5th grader at Ann Heiman
Elementary School. This is her
first year of participating in Young
Chautauqua. Her favorite things
to do are to play basketball,
softball, and volleyball. Kaitlyn
likes to hang out with her friends
and go to the pool. Her favorite
food is anything sweet.
Anne Frank (1929-1945) is best known for the diary that
she wrote while hiding from the Nazis. Anne was born
in Germany but lost her citizenship in 1941. Her family
moved to Amsterdam, where they were trapped by the
Nazi occupation. After the family was betrayed, they were
captured and sent to a concentration camp.
Kenia Gallardo as
FRIDA KAHLO
Kenia has completed the
5th grade at East Memorial
Elementary School. She likes to
draw, listen to music and sing
songs, especially by Adele. She
says that she spends lots of time in the library.
Frida Kahlo (1907-1954) was a famous Mexican artist
who depicted the feminist experience and also the pain
that she suffered thanks to a trolley accident in which she
was badly injured as a teen. She married Diego Rivera,
another great Mexican artist.
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Under the Big Tent
10:00 am to 4:00 pm
ALL AGES
Angel Lechuga as
NATHAN MEEKER
Angel has finished the 5th grade
at Maplewood Elementary School.
He has a great interest in math
and also enjoys technology and
running marathons.
Nathan Meeker (1817-1879) was
the founder of the Union Colony
(Greeley) in 1870. Before coming
to Greeley, he was a journalist. Later he became an Indian
Agent for the federal government. He was killed by the
Utes in 1879 in western Colorado.
Micah Norton as
LEONARDO DA VINCI
Micah Norton has completed the
5th grade at Meeker Elementary
School.
Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519)
was a Renaissance man. He was
an artist, inventor, mathematician,
engineer, and architect. He is said
to have had a superhuman mind.
One of his best known paintings is the Mona Lisa.
Faith Strong as POCAHONTAS
Faith Strong has completed the
5th grade at Monfort Elementary
School. She has been in three
Stampede Troupe plays: The Little
Princess, The Christmas Carol, and
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory.
Faith says that the casts and
directors were amazing.
Pocahontas (1595(?)-1617) was
the daughter of Powhatan, principal chief of an alliance
of Algonquian-speaking Indians in Virginia. According to
legend, she is said to have saved the life of John Smith of
the Jamestown Colony. She was captured by the English
and converted to Christianity, taking the name Rebecca.
Her marriage to John Rolfe was the first recorded
interracial marriage in the American colonies.
Jory Hundley as
CHARLES GOODNIGHT
Jory will be a 7th grader at
Heath Middle School this fall. He
enjoys playing football, and he
is never happier than when he is
working on an independent study
project. In school his favorite
subject is math, and his favorite
elective is wood shop.
Charles Goodnight (1836-1929)
was a Texas Ranger, cowboy and rancher who is credited
with having invented the chuckwagon. Known as the
“father of the Texas Panhandle,” he led many cattle drives
and gave his name to the famous Goodnight-Loving cattle
trail.
Alexis Hernandez as JOSEPHINE MEEKER
Alexis is an 11-year-old Heath Middle School student.
She loves just about everything in school, from acting to
singing and sports of all kinds.
She also enjoys learning about her
ancestors and people in history.
When she starts something,
she never quits. Just give her a
chance, and you can depend on
her. She has high hopes for her
future.
Josephine Meeker (1857-82)
was the daughter of Greeley’s
early leader Nathan Meeker. The family moved to the
Union Colony when she was 13 years old. She went to
Oberlin College and then joined her father and mother
as a teacher and physician at the White River Indian
Agency in western Colorado. When her father was killed
in the Meeker Massacre in 1879, she and her mother were
among those taken captive by the Ute Indians. They were
released after 23 days, and she left shortly thereafter for
work in Washington, D.C.
Haley Caudill as BEATRIX POTTER
Haley will be an 8th grader at Heath Middle School this
fall. Her favorite subjects in school are math and reading,
and her favorite hobby is sewing.
Beatrix Potter (1866-1943) was
the author and illustrator of
The Tale of Peter Rabbit and other
celebrated children’s books in
England.
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Under the Big Tent
10:00 am to 4:00 pm
ALL AGES
Brian Davis as ABRAHAM LINCOLN
Entering the 6th grade, Brian is already a veteran Young
Chautauquan. Last year he delighted our Chautauqua
audience with his portrayal
of Mark Twain. When he is
not learning about historical
characters, he enjoys playing
piano and trombone and singing,
soccer and baseball, and comedy.
Abe Lincoln, the 16th President
of the United States, lived from
1809 until his assassination just
at the end of the Civil War in 1865. Considered to have
been perhaps our finest president, he was a great story
teller as well as orator who authored the Emancipation
Proclamation and who led the effort to abolish slavery with
the 13th Amendment to the Constitution.
Simone Campbell as
NICOLAUS COPERNICUS
Simone loves “the three Cs”:
cats, chemistry and cinnamon
rolls. Why choose Copernicus
as your Young Chautauqua
character? Because “we both
share the same passion −
science,” not to mention that his
name starts with C. Simone will be a 6th grader in the fall.
Copernicus (1473-1543) lent his name to the Copernican
Revolution. As a Renaissance mathematician and
astronomer, he formulated a new model of the solar
system, placing the sun, rather than earth, at the center.
Madisyn Gentry as
LUCILLE BALL
Madisyn is the oldest of five
children in her family. She
loves to act and was emcee
for the McAuliffe Talent Show,
demonstrating that she is not
afraid to get up in front of an
audience. She will be in the 6th
grade next year.
Lucille Ball (1911-1989) was one of America’s greatest
comedians, starring in the beloved television show, I Love
Lucy, among other sitcoms. In 1962 she became the first
woman to run a major television studio.
Michael Holien as
AUDIE MURPHY
Michael has a cat and snake as well as two sisters and
his parents to help console him for the loss of his dog and
best friend Houston, who died
last year. He will be in the 6th
grade this coming year.
Audie Murphy (1925-1971)
was one of the most decorated
American soldiers in World War
II. From northern Africa to Sicily
to Italy and France, he fought in
one battle after another, winning
the Congressional Medal of Honor among other awards.
Despite suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder after
the war, he became a famous movie and television star.
Tajanae Murphy as
CLEOPATRA VII
Tajanae loves to write, create,
sing, and perform in front of
others. She will enter the 6th
grade this fall.
Cleopatra (69-30 BCE) was
the last pharaoh of Egypt. She
has fascinated writers from
Shakespeare to the present,
thanks to her romantic relationship with Marc Antony
with whom she bore three children. It is perhaps more
important to remember that she was a powerful female
ruler at a time when few women enjoyed much power.
Nathan Bobbitt as
LEONARDO DA VINCI
This is Nathan’s second year
as a Young Chautauquan. In
addition to history, he enjoys
creative writing and math. He will
begin the 6th grade this fall. His
many interests include sports and
playing piano.
Leonardo de Vinci (1452-1519)
was a great painter, sculptor,
engineer and inventor in the
Italian Renaissance. Thanks to his genius and the breadth
of his interests, he came to epitomize the ideal of the
Renaissance Man.
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Joel Martinez as BOB MARLEY
Joel loves music, football and
boxing. He has always been
interested in Bob Marley. Joel will
be a 6th grader this fall.
Bob Marley (1945-1981) was a
great Jamaican singer-songwriter
whose name is synonymous with
reggae music. Before his death
from cancer at the young age of 36, he became one of the
super stars of the international music scene.
Under the Big Tent
10:00 am to 4:00 pm
ALL AGES
Lucio Avalos as
HENRY HUDSON
Lucio has completed the 6th
grade at Bella Romero Elementary
School. Among his interests are
sports and art. He says of himself,
“I like to get my work done.”
Henry Hudson (1565(?)-1611)
was a great English explorer and
navigator who led two efforts to find the fabled Northwest
Passage to China through what is Canada today. He
explored what have become known as the Hudson River
and Hudson Bay, among other places.
Ashley Garcia-Escobedo as
PRINCESS SHAWSHEEN
Ashley describes herself as a
kind person who never wants to
hurt people’s feelings. She likes
everything about school and will
be in the 5th grade at Shawsheen
Elementary School this fall.
Shawsheen, for whom Ashley’s
school is named, was a Ute Indian
princess whose name means
“Shining Water.” She played an important role, along with
her brother Chief Ouray, in the release of Arvilla Meeker
and her daughter Josephine after the Meeker massacre in
1879.
Jasmyne DuBois as
JULIETTE GORDON LOW
Jasmyne has completed the 5th
grade at University Schools. She
has acted in a number of plays,
and she also enjoys playing soccer
and roller derby.
Juliette Gordon Low (1860–
1927) is best remembered as
founder of the Girl Scouts of the
USA. Known to family and friends as Daisy, she loved the
arts, including poetry, playwriting, painting and sculpting.
Taylor Henderson as
EMILY BRONTE
Taylor will enter the 7th grade
at Winograd K-8 School this fall.
When she isn’t participating in
Young Chautauqua, she loves
performing on stage in other
ways, especially singing. In sports
she likes to run and play soccer
and basketball. Most of all, she
loves to read.
Emily Bronte (1818–1848) authored the classic English
novel Wuthering Heights. Shy and reclusive, she is not as wellknown as her sister Charlotte, author of Jane Eyre.
Alexsys Ortiz as
HARRIET TUBMAN
Alexsys will be in the 7th grade
this coming year. She describes
herself as a leader who hopes to
become an actress some day. She
also enjoys music and spending
time with her friends and family.
Harriet Tubman (1820-1913) was
an African American who escaped slavery to become a
strong Abolitionist. She repeatedly entered the South
to help free as many as 300 slaves, bringing them north
(often to Canada) along the Underground Railroad. During
the Civil War she served as a Union Army spy, and after the
war she became an active suffragist.
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Under the Big Tent
10:00 am to 4:00 pm
ALL AGES
Ariana Holien as NELLIE BLY
Ariana will be a 7th grader at
Winograd K-8 School this fall. She
loves retro things, and she might
become an archeologist someday,
specializing in grave sites. She’s
also thinking of becoming a
detective. Then again, given her
love for water and marine life, she
might do something more aquatic in her life journey.
Nellie Bly (1864–1922), born Elizabeth Jane Cochrane,
was the first American female journalist to become famous.
She initially gained fame by feigning insanity in order to
gain entry into, and write an exposé about, conditions in
a women’s insane asylum. Later, she became even more
famous by traveling around the world in only 72 days, eight
days less than Jules Verne’s character Phileas Fogg.
Delaney Dingerson as
LILLI JAHN
Delaney will enter the 7th grade
at Winograd K-8 School this year.
She was born in Illinois and moved
to Greeley when she was six years
old. She is athletic, fun-loving and
hard-working. She loves to read,
play soccer, and hang out with her
friends and family.
Lilli Jahn (1900–1944) was a German-Jewish doctor who
was imprisoned in the Breitenau labor camp and then
killed at Auschwitz. She gained fame internationally when
her letters to her children, written from Breitenau, were
later published.
Carsyn Waldfogel as
NATALIE WOOD
Carsyn has completed the
6th grade at Winograd K-8
School. She is the eldest of three
daughters in her family. She loves
performing and wants to be an
actor or singer some day.
Natalie Wood (1938–1981) was
a film and television actress best
remembered for her roles in Miracle on 34th Street (as a
child), Rebel Without a Cause, and West Side Story.
“As a homeschooler, Young
Chautauqua helped me make
friends from many different
schools. I learned a lot about
myself and history, and I grew in
self-confidence. I use my Young
Chautauqua skills in memorizing,
having personable conversations,
and attempting to transport
people in my Centennial Village
tour groups to a different period
in time.”
Amber Leigh Bennett, 2007 HPC
cameo as Mary Jemison and 2008
cameo as Jessie Benton Fremont
Amy Haining as
DR. ELLA MEAD
Amy has completed the 6th
grade at Winograd K-8 School.
She chose her character because
she, too, hopes to become a
doctor. Among her many interests,
she loves playing sports, acting,
and participating in Young
Chautauqua.
Dr. Ella Mead came to Greeley when she was four years
old. She graduated from Greeley High School and then
went to Denver where, in 1903, she earned her medical
degree. Returning to Greeley, she became the city’s first
female doctor. In addition to running her own practice, she
served as Greeley’s City Health Officer, and she opened
one of the first local clinics for women in the 1930s.
“I learned about people,
cause and effect, culture and
perspectives. It was an incredible
experience.”
Kaitlyn Jerome, 2006 HPC cameo
as Mary Boykin Chesnut and 2008
cameo as Margaret Fuller
“Young Chautauqua is an
amazing program that helped
build my self-confidence. The
skills I learned are ones I can
use throughout life, especially
when speaking in front of
groups.”
Jason Gonzales, 2005 HPC
cameo performance as César
Chávez
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Wednesday, August 7
Evening Programs
here’s no one like Margaret.”
These words were first uttered by
Margaret Mead’s parents, Edward and
Emily Mead. Though the Mead household
held five children, there was no doubt
something special about the family’s firstborn. Outgoing, vivacious, and stubborn,
the young Margaret Mead saw life as an
adventure and she was determined to
experience it all. Perhaps the greatest
gift the Meads gave their daughter was
the ability to delight in the world and the
people around her. Of her childhood,
Mead later remarked, “I learned to
observe the world around me and to note
what I saw.”
This valuable skill would serve Mead
well in her career as an anthropologist.
In 1924, she earned her Master’s degree
from Columbia University. A year later,
she began the job that would later
bring her global attention – field work
among the young women of Samoa. The
resulting book, Coming of Age in Samoa, took
the United States by storm. The book’s
groundbreaking anthropological work
challenged the longstanding notion of
a culturally universal maturation process
among adolescents.
Mead’s work later resonated with a
generation seeking to come to terms
with life after two world wars. The United
States could not be an island unto itself.
Globalization had engulfed the country,
bringing a myriad of religious, political,
and social ideas. Tension between the
old and the new manifested in various
forms of social unrest, such as women’s
liberation, the Civil Rights movement, and
anti-war protests. Yet unlike many of her
generation, Mead embraced the coming
changes.
6:00 – 9:00 pm
Under the Big Tent
6:00 to 6:50 pm
Performance by Dance Factory
Bringing tap, jazz, ballet and hip hop to you
for your enjoyment! Dancers from 6-17 years
of age take the stage with high energy and
excitement. Interested in joining the fun?
Contact the Dance Factory at 970-506-9040 or
check out our website at www.dancefactorylb.
com. Fall classes begin August 19.
7:00 pm
MARGARET MEAD (1901-1978) by Amelia (Newport) Wagner
Sponsored by the Kenneth G. and Myra Monfort Charitable Foundation
Mead’s unwavering advocacy for social
change, and her unabashed discussion
of sensitive and taboo topics, did not
always earn her fans. Coming of Age in
Samoa was labeled a “sexbook” by some
of Mead’s peers and the Governor of
Florida called Mead “a dirty old lady”
for her support of the decriminalization
of marijuana. If anything, her critics only
spurred her on. Whether facing a hostile
tribe member in New Guinea or a hostile
peer in the United States, Mead thrived
on challenges.
“We are now at a point
where we must educate
our children in what no one
knew yesterday, and prepare
our schools for what no one
knows yet.”
Even to the end, Mead was
indefatigable. “Sooner or later I’m going
to die,” she was known to have admitted.
“But I’m not going to retire.” At the age
of 74, Mead took a trip to visit the Manus
people of Papua, New Guinea. Mead
had begun her work with the Manus in
1929 and her many trips to visit them had
provided one of the first anthropological
studies that spanned generations of the
same people. The trip was to be one
of her last. Shortly after her return to
the States, Mead was diagnosed with
pancreatic cancer. The disease moved
quickly and in 1978, she passed away.
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The nation mourned the death of this
woman, who had almost single-handedly
changed the field of anthropology. A year
after her death, President Jimmy Carter
awarded Mead the Presidential Medal
of Freedom for her work. Driven and
compassionate, stubborn and unyielding,
beloved and hated – there was indeed no
one like Margaret.
AMELIA (NEWPORT) WAGNER
Amelia (Newport) Wagner began her
career as a Chautauquan at the age of 12
when she joined the Colorado Humanities
Young Chautauqua program in Greeley,
Colorado. Amelia was one of the first
Young Chautauquans to perform on the
High Plains Chautauqua main stage in
2005. She later returned to the main stage
in 2008, portraying Anna Howard Shaw.
She graduated from the University of
Denver in 2012 with a Bachelor’s Degree
in English and History. The historical
research Amelia conducted at school
caught the attention of the Council for
Undergraduate Research and in the spring
of 2012, she was invited to present her
thesis at a conference before members of
Congress. Amelia was a first-person living
history interpreter for the Denver Museum
of Nature and Science’s Pompeii exhibit,
which concluded in January. She is very
happy to be at High Plains Chautauqua
once more.
RECOMMENDED READING
Cassidy, Robert. Margaret Mead: A Voice for the
Century. New York: Universe Books, 1982.
Foerstel, Leonara, and Angela Gilliam,
eds. Margaret Mead’s Contradictory Legacy.
Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1992.
Howard, Jane. Margaret Mead. New York: Simon
and Schuster, 1984.
Mead, Margaret. Coming of Age in Samoa. New
York: William Morrow, 1961.
Mead, Margaret. Blackberry Winter. New York:
William Morrow, 1972; Pocket Books, 1975.
Wednesday, August 7
Evening Programs
8:00 pm
FRANCISCO PIZARRO (1475-1541) by Hank Fincken
Sponsored by The Tribune
s a general, he was brilliant. Peace
did not become him. Francisco Pizarro
was born out of wedlock and denied all
gentlemanly advantages. Yet he managed
to conquer much of South America and
destroy the Inca Empire. His bravery
and commitment are undeniable; his
ruthlessness and cruelty affect a continent
today. For 400 years, his courage was
celebrated in history books. Today he is
remembered as one of the world’s great
villains. But then again, maybe those in
the 21st century are as naively singleminded in their search for virtue as the
16th century Spaniard was in his search
for gold. This performance will not try to
remake Pizarro into a hero, but it will try
to put flesh and blood on someone who
is remembered mostly for his shedding of
flesh and blood.
The meeting and eventual battle
between the Inca Atahualpa and the
Spanish conquistador in November 1532
in Cajamarca Peru is not just about the
boundary between hero and villain. The
time and the battle invite exploration of
the boundaries between civilized and
uncivilized, Christian and pagan, and the
question of who decides on the physical
boundaries between nations.
Looking across the centuries, one can
see that these boundaries are constantly
in flux. It is only in the “now” that they
seem solid and permanent. In 1535, to
Europeans, Pizarro was considered a
hero and Atahualpa the Devil’s partner. It
seemed a religious mandate to change
the physical boundaries of both nations
in order to save souls. Today, people
appreciate the achievement of the Incas
and despise the greed of the Spaniards.
Many prefer to believe the Inca Atahualpa
was a great martyr and Pizarro the great
exploiter.
Of course there is some truth in
this interpretation. But these current
boundaries between good and bad, hero
and villain, civilized and uncivilized
are as limiting and short-sighted as the
old. These new boundaries encourage
simplifying the past rather than trying to
understand why the two cultures had such
a violent encounter.
“We have been
displeased by the
death of Atahualpa
since he too was a
monarch."
~ King Carlos I of Spain
Society seems as trapped in this
moment of time as Atahualpa and Pizarro
were trapped in theirs. However, today’s
observer has the advantage of realizing
that each century’s interpretation of the
conflict is based as much on wishful
thinking and values of the moment as it
is on events. Atahualpa was also a great
exploiter of his neighbors; Pizarro’s final
act in life was to draw a cross with his own
blood on the floor.
The two men had more in common
than either would care to believe.
Atahualpa saw himself a deity; Pizarro a
deity’s representative. Both men used
good manners to disguise ambition,
believed it was their destiny to rule the
world, and trusted military might as the
means to this end. Boundaries enabled
both to see the other as an enemy.
Boundaries define who and where one
is. Yet they also limit appreciation of the
other and what could be. The Spanish
ideal of chivalry included hospitality.
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The Inca used a work tax to overcome
national disasters and to sponsor lavish
religious ceremonies. Despite what
conventional boundaries implied, war
was not inevitable. It remains a 500-year
history lesson that peace and compassion
may be worth dying for, just not worth
killing for.
HANK FINCKEN
For over 25 years, Hank Fincken has
toured the U.S. performing his eight
original first-person portrayals for
Chautauqua festivals and other public
venues. His characters include Thomas
Edison, Johnny Appleseed, Francisco
Pizarro, Christopher Columbus, Henry
Ford, W.C. Fields, and an 1849 Argonaut
named J. G. Bruff. He was awarded the
title “Master Artist” by the Indiana Arts
Commission, “Outstanding Performer”
by the Indiana Theatre Association, and
has received three national “Pinnacle
Awards” for his teaching of history
through video conferencing.
Hank was recently in a Hollywood film
which featured Thomas Edison, wrote an
original play for the city of Defiance about
a teen abducted by the Shawnee in 1793,
and performed as Prosecutor Richard
Crowley in Susan B. Anthony’s trial in
Adams, Massachusetts (her birth city). In
the summer of 2013, Hank will perform as
Johnny Appleseed for Ohio Chautauqua
and as Thomas Edison in Nevada. This
is his second time to be part of the High
Plains Chautauqua.
RECOMMENDED READING
Hemming, John. The Conquest of the Incas.
Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, 1970.
Kendell, Ann. Everyday Life of the Incas. Dorset
Press, 1989.
Mann, Charles C. 1491. Knopf, 2005.
Restall, Matthew. Seven Myths of the Spanish
Conquest. Oxford University Press, 2004.
Thursday, August 8
Adult Programs
8:00 to 9:15 am
Coffee & Conversation with Chautauquans
Amelia (Newport) Wagner and Hank Fincken
Ed Beaty Hall Student Lounge
5401 W. 20th St.
Ed Beaty Hall Black Box Theater,
9:30 to 10:30 am
A Nation Founded on Principle
1:00 to 2:00 pm
Well-Behaved Women Rarely
Make History
Bill Barker as Thomas Jefferson
Appearing in a presidential news conference, the
nation’s third president will field questions from the
audience. Active audience participation is encouraged
as Bill Barker, portraying Thomas Jefferson, answers
enquiries relating to incidents, individuals, and issues
from Jefferson’s lifetime, and comments on general
topics likely to have been known to Jefferson that are
also relevant to Americans today. Jefferson thought
deeply and wrote compellingly about political forms
and ideas, religious beliefs and structures, ancient
and modern philosophies, intellectual currents, and
the forms and rhythms of the natural world. He also
grappled throughout his life with the variety and sources
of individual rights, and the role of government in
establishing and protecting those rights. He struggled
with the utility, value, and morality of slavery and the
attractions of personal liberty. Jefferson has much to
share with today’s citizens.
Mary Jane Bradbury
What did it mean to be a well-behaved woman in the
19th century during those early days of social reform?
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich, the author of this now famous
statement about women, wrote, “Well-behaved women
make history when they do the unexpected . . . they
didn’t ask to be remembered.” This engaging program
remembers and honors them, introducing audiences to
a few of the mavericks and trailblazers who dared to do
the unexpected and lead the way to new opportunities
for women. Adventurers, reformers, politicians, women
of science and medicine. Did I say you’d meet just a
few? Alas, so many women, so little time!
“Don’t let the politicians convince you that asserting
yourself would not be ladylike. Maybe it wouldn’t, but
who wants to be ladylike anyhow when women are
what’s so badly needed and they have a great mission
to fulfill. You don’t need the vote to raise hell!”
– Mary Harris “Mother” Jones
10:45 to 11:45 am
America Today: Fighting to
Maintain the Peace
2:15 to 3:15 pm
A Jungian Reading of Moby-Dick
Hank Fincken
George Frein
The United States professes to despise war, but we
tend to be always in one. Participants will discuss the
values that make war acceptable both in the past and
the present. The Spanish conquistadores, the Inca and
his armies, and the U.S. military have all found war a
necessary part of life. But is it really? If history does
indeed teach, the workshop participants may leave
thinking our valiant, violent charge for peace is an echo
of past times.
Jungian psychologists have not been content just
to analyze the dreams of their clients. They have also
applied Jung’s psychology to the analysis of works of
literature. One of the most interesting Jungian analyses
of a great American book is Edward Edinger’s reading
of Herman Melville’s Moby-Dick. This daytime program
will use a slide show to see what a Jungian can make
of the white whale and those who hunt such a monster.
Participants in this program will learn that the
greatest of all fish tales is a nightmare they
might have themselves tonight.
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Thursday, August 8
Youth Programs
Monfort Children’s Clinic
Community Room
100 North 11th Ave.
2:00 to 3:00 pm
If You Were a Millionaire
Jeff Smith
3:00 to 4:00 pm
A Belly Whopper, a Roller Coaster,
and a Yellow Canary!
(Ages 8 to 12)
This interactive program explores Andrew Carnegie’s
ideas about “scientific philanthropy.” It breaks
participants into groups, each with a set of “good cause”
cards (milk for children in a daycare, a new playground,
DVDs for the local library, and so on). Each card has a
“value” in Carnegie Bucks. They must figure out how
to spend a limited number of Carnegie Bucks on these
causes based on what they think Greeley, Colorado
needs. Then, they present their decisions to the whole
group.
This program is designed to have children think
in terms of philanthropy as linked to the needs of a
specific place and the one they know best – their own
home towns. Carnegie said he wanted to do “real and
permanent good.” This program allows children to
start to figure out what that means and how to reach
consensus on that “real and permanent good.”
Elsa Wolff as Amelia Earhart
(Ages 8 to 12)
A brush with disaster on the back of a belly whopper
sled. A roller coaster built off the shed roof in the
back yard. A bright yellow airplane named the “Yellow
Canary.” Amelia Earhart's childhood experiences, family
interactions, challenges, and attitudes are stories worth
telling, and serve as an inspiration to youth and adult
alike. Stories from Amelia’s early years not only entertain
but also help to paint the true life picture of this woman
so many think of only as a world-famous aviatrix. This
session will begin with a presentation by Amelia followed
by a slide show of Amelia’s childhood and start into
aviation. Children will then have a chance to make a
paper airplane and learn some basic principles of flight.
No, Thank You, Mr. Carnegie!
On Jan. 8, 1900, with Greeley’s 3,500 volume library
to Know (W.T.K.) Club had adopted the building of a new
crowded into a semi-circular room on the north side of
library as the club’s project in 1906. Committee member
the 1895 high school, Henry T. West wrote to Andrew
James Max Clark, a respected pioneer and former editor
Carnegie, requesting $50,000 for a new library. In 1902,
of The Greeley Tribune, reached out to Greeley’s youth in his
Mr. Carnegie wrote that he would fund a new library for
“buy a brick” campaign. One young boy donated 10 dollars
Greeley. His gift, however, had “strings attached,” as
he had earned during the summer painting a barn. In all,
the City would be obligated financially for a specified
more than $17,000 was donated by 425 citizens.
percentage
The library opened its
for an annual
doors on Jan. 13, 1909. The
operating budget.
inscription on the cornerstone
Greeley’s vocal and
read, “Greeley Public
independent citizens
Library – Erected by Popular
debated the issue,
Subscription, A.D. 1907.”
and newspaper
Mr. Clark, in an article
headlines of Jan.
written for The Weld County
3, 1903 announced
Republican, Oct. 1, 1908,
their verdict: “NOT
extolling the amenities of
WANTED – Carnegie
“one of the handsomest
library buildings in the state,”
Library Is Given Cold
said, “. . . I believed the
Shoulder – Miss
people who founded this
Greeley Not Ready to
colony, constructed these
Accept Present From
City of Greeley Museums Permanent Collection #1995.21.0001.B
canals, conquered this desert,
Strangers. Meeting
in Court House
settled this beautiful city and
Unanimous.”
its immediately surrounding country, established this
Corina Lee Jex, an English teacher, became chairman
society, these churches and these schools, could manage
of the Library Building Committee. She recruited 25
in some way to put up this library without asking Andrew
representatives from Greeley clubs and organizations to
Carnegie to assist us in the undertaking. We have
help raise money. For example, women in Greeley’s Want succeeded.”
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Thursday, August 8
Evening Programs
n founding and developing
Tuskegee Agricultural Industrial and
Normal Institute, his most enduring legacy,
Booker T. Washington explored boundaries
between education and entrepreneurship.
In the process, he amassed a power base
that no other black and very few whites
could match.
It is particularly instructive to note how
he turned obstacles into opportunities
at the intersections of race and region,
the personal and the political, and the
national and the international. As a result,
Washington emerges not only as the most
powerful black leader then in existence, but
perhaps, as the most powerful black leader
that ever will exist in America.
Washington, a keen observer of his
environment, informs us: “During the whole
of the Reconstruction period our people
throughout the South looked to the Federal
Government for everything, very much as
a child looks to its mother.” Washington
worked at developing a producer class
of black people, equating independence
with the production of “something that the
world wants.”
He first observed this economic
determinism model as a student at the
Hampton Institute, and developed it into
the guiding principle of Tuskegee Institute.
Through the production of agricultural,
small scale industrial, trained personnel
(his primary “products”), as well as ideas
perceived as non-threatening to the
southern racial status-quo, Washington
expanded his influence.
Washington also gained valuable insight
at Hampton into the cultural nature of
inter-racial contact. First as a student,
between whites and blacks, and later
as a teacher, between reds, whites and
blacks, Washington began developing
his theory about how relations between
5:45 - 9:00 pm
Under the Big Tent
7:00 pm
Booker T. Washington
(1856-1915) by Charles Pace
Sponsored by Aims Community College
the races might be improved. Hampton’s
founding principal, General Samuel C.
Armstrong, father-figure and mentor,
placed Washington in charge of the “Indian
School” at Hampton.
Through these experiences,
Washington’s genius for the management
of the political domain of human affairs
quickly emerged. He made it clear
that he harbored no desire for political
position, and would refuse any political
appointments, if offered. Instead,
Washington became a master political
operative. Understanding that all politics
is local, he increasingly brought public
prestige to his local and regional area,
arranging a Tuskegee Institute visit by
President William McKinley and a visit by
his friend President Theodore Roosevelt,
whom he called “the Governor.”
History is to know two Washingtons,
one white, the other black, both Fathers
of their People.” – Andrew Carnegie
At Tuskegee’s 25th anniversary in 1906,
Charles W. Eliot, President of Harvard
University; Andrew Carnegie, his dear
friend and major benefactor; and William
Howard Taft, Secretary of War and future
U. S. President, shared the stage with him
as principal speakers. Black journalist J.
Max Barber summed up the significance of
their presence as representing “the three
classes which run this country (culture,
economics and politics); and they all joined
in the praise of Booker Washington and
pledged him their support.”
The address that Washington delivered
in 1895 at the International Cotton States
Exhibition in Atlanta began his international
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5:45 to 6:45 pm
Classic Standards by
The Matt Pack
The classic standards listened to and performed
by so many people are the heart and soul of The
Matt Pack. Lead vocalist Matthew Arguello has
surrounded himself with great musicians like Dr.
Kyle Malone on bass, Bill Bohnenblust on piano,
Mike Sherpa on drums and Doug Carmichael on
saxophone. Matthew Arguello and his band The
Matt Pack (www.themattpackband.com) perform
songs like “Moondance,” “Mack the Knife,”
“What a Wonderful World” and many other
great tunes that are unfortunately not performed
live very often. Take a step back into time, sit
back, relax and enjoy The Matt Pack.
influence. It grew over the years through
three high-profile trips to Europe, where he
met with writers, educators, noblemen and
noble women. He was “wined and dined”
by American ambassadors and ruling
monarchs. All sought and he gladly gave of
his time, advice and valued presence.
Study of Booker T. Washington
brings insight into creativity, leadership,
and innovation, and how academic
culture can serve as an entrepreneurial
engine to power the transition from
the entrepreneurial imagination to its
realization.
CHARLES PACE
Charles Pace graduated from The
University of Texas at Austin (B.A. Biology)
and Purdue University (M.A. American
Studies-History/Anthropology). A 17-year
veteran of the Great Plains Chautauqua,
Pace and George Frein gave the keynote
address at the final Presidential debate
between Senators John McCain and
Barack Obama. Pace has also conducted
U.S. Government Public Diplomacy Missions in 25 cities and nine countries across
Africa. He does Chautauqua presentations
as Frederick Douglass, Booker T. Washington, W.E.B. Du Bois, Langston Hughes and
Malcolm X. Charles Everett Pace is a full
time Chautauquan, a Silver Life Member
of the NAACP, travels nationally and lives
in Texarkana, Texas.
RECOMMENDED READING
Harland, Louis R. Booker T. Washington: Volume 1:
The Making of a Black Leader, 1856-1901.
New York: Oxford University Press, USA, 1975.
Harland, Louis R. Booker T. Washington: Volume 2:
The Wizard of Tuskegee, 1901-1915.
New York: Oxford University Press, 1983.
Washington, Booker T. Up from Slavery: An
Autobiography. Dover Publications, 1995.
Thursday, August 8
Evening Programs
8:00 pm
ANDREW CARNEGIE (1835-1919) by Jeff Smith
Sponsored by Roche Constructors, Inc.
erhaps no historical figure is better
suited to discuss the relationship between
libraries and democracy than Andrew
Carnegie. Carnegie was an ardent
believer in democratic government and
principles. With a true rags-to-riches
immigrant story, Carnegie was convinced
that he could have risen from humble
beginnings to become (as J. P. Morgan
put it) “the richest man in the world” in
a democracy unbridled by dominance
by those of a privileged position based
on inherited wealth. Free public libraries
were a centerpiece of his thinking; he
often referred to them as “temples of
democracy,” feeling that they were
the most democratic of all institutions
since they only help those who help
themselves.
Born in Scotland in 1835, Carnegie
and his family emigrated to the United
States in 1848 to live with relatives near
Pittsburgh. Young Andy’s experiences
were not unlike those of many immigrants
who arrived with little, working in assorted
factory jobs before joining a telegraph
company where he learned telegraphy.
This new skill gained him a position with
the Pennsylvania Railroad as a secretary
and telegrapher, where he worked his
way up the ranks until “retiring”at age 30
to focus his energies on bridge-building,
which led to steel manufacturing.
Carnegie Steel became the largest
manufacturer of steel rails on earth. It
was here, in Pittsburgh, that Carnegie
had access to the personal library of
Col. James Anderson, who opened it as
a lending library for “working boys” in
the area. Later in life, Carnegie became
convinced that Anderson’s generosity
gave him a love of books and reading that
were central to both his business success
and personal happiness.
The best means of benefiting
the community is to place
within its reach the ladders
upon which the aspiring can
rise. . . .”
Andrew Carnegie, "Wealth," 1889
As a philanthropist, Carnegie focused
much of his early effort on free public
libraries. Since he had gained such
wealth from the rapid industrial growth
of the United States in the Gilded Age,
he felt it was his duty to help expand
opportunities for others to rise as
well. Thus, he developed his idea of
“scientific philanthropy,” which has a
strong familiarity today. He would seek to
expand democracy and peace through
his giving, leaving other causes to fellow
philanthropists (referring requests for
medical funding, for example, to John
Rockefeller, saying, “He’ll pay for it”). This
general philosophy was first published
in his 1889 article, “Wealth,” later given
its more popular title, “The Gospel of
Wealth.”
For Andrew Carnegie, the rich should
strive to give away all their riches to
advance the general society. As his other
writings suggest, Carnegie felt that only
in a democracy (unlike his native Great
Britain) could one rise as far as his
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abilities and aspirations would carry him,
unencumbered by a privileged class. For
Carnegie, free public libraries – of which
he funded some 1,700 in the United
States alone – were among the greatest
expressions and protectors of democracy.
JEFFREY SMITH
Jeffrey Smith is the Chair of the
History and Geography Department
at Lindenwood University in St. Louis.
He has portrayed Andrew Carnegie
for more than 15 years and William
Clark since 2003 in various Chautauqua
festivals, including the Great Plains
Chautauqua, Missouri Chautauqua, and
the Greenville Chautauqua. Currently,
Smith is writing a social history of
Bellefontaine Cemetery in St. Louis.
RECOMMENDED READING
Carnegie, Andrew. The Autobiography of
Andrew Carnegie. Boston: Northeastern
University Press, 1986.
Morris, Charles R. The Tycoons: How
Andrew Carnegie, John D. Rockefeller, Jay
Gould, and J. P. Morgan Invented the
American Supereconomy. New York: Times
Books, 2006.
Nasaw, David. Andrew Carnegie. New York:
Penguin Press, 2005.
Wall, Joseph. Andrew Carnegie. Pittsburgh:
University of Pittsburgh Press. 1970.
Friday, August 9
Adult Programs
Greeley Senior Activities Center Dining Room
1010 6th Street
8:00 to 9:15 am
Coffee & Conversation with Chautauquans
Charles Pace and Jeff Smith
Greeley Senior Activities Center Dining Room, 1010 6th St.
Parking restrictions in the Senior Activities Center lot will be
waived during HPC programs on Friday, August 9. Entry to
the lot is on 6th Street, between 10th and 11th Avenues.
1:00 to 2:00 pm
General Clark’s Front Porch
9:30 to 10:30 am
Pushing Boundaries –
Musically Speaking
Jeff Smith as William Clark
Despite efforts to remain largely uncontroversial, Clark’s
professional life after returning from the Pacific was
marked by controversy. In many ways, Clark was dealing
with the largest issues of his day in the West, attempting
to reconcile his personal feelings with the evolving
policies of the federal government he represented in St.
Louis.
In this program Jeff Smith portrays an older Clark,
sitting on a rocking chair on his front porch, reminiscing
with friends. It is conversational in tone, allowing Clark
to discuss his own life and work from a more personal
perspective.
Explored are issues at the end of Clark’s life that
his work in the West brought about. The period from
1806-38 was one of profound change – the arrival and
prominence of steamboats, new trade with the West,
Indian removal, and an altered political landscape.
Elsa Wolff
Music has always been an important part of the
cultural scene in America, from resisting a war to basic
expressions of love and passion, conflict and loss. The
spirit of a decade or a social movement is often captured
by the music that is produced as boundaries are pushed
in the social arena, bringing an entire generation
together with a song.
Join in a stroll down memory lane – a musical walk
through the 50s, 60s and 70s. Artists like Elvis Presley, The
Beatles, Aretha Franklin, Bob Dylan, and even a few “one
hit wonders.” This is a retro-sing-along that will leave
you with a smile on your face and a few old tunes in your
head.
10:45 to 11:45 am
The 21st Century Implications
of Booker T. Washington’s Ideas
on Education
2:15 to 3:15 pm
The Pivotal Role of Colorado
Statehood in the 1876
Presidential Election
Charles Pace
Booker T. Washington’s ideas of leveraging the leadership potential of the boundary between liberal arts education and industrial education of the late 19th and early
20th century (what he called “dovetailing”), resonates
with today’s discussion about the practical advantage and
relative merits between liberal arts and workforce education. In this workshop Pace will illustrate the value of
Washington’s idea to link liberal arts and workforce education by exploring success and happiness in the creative
economy through the entrepreneurial imagination.
The Presidential election of 1876 was one of the most
controversial in American history. The nation was in
the throes of Reconstruction, with North vying against
South, East against West, and Republicans against
Democrats. Within this swirl of activity the presidential
election of 1876 loomed as an opportunity. There was
not a political faction that did not have its eyes on the
election, each hoping to capture the White House. In the
end, political upheaval and grueling campaign work led
to an almost perfect split in the electoral votes between
the Republican candidate, Rutherford B. Hayes, and
the Democratic candidate, Samuel J. Tilden. The final
decision came down to three electoral votes cast by the
General Assembly in the newly formed state of Colorado.
Never before had the margin of error mattered so
much. Never before had a federal commission been
necessary to determine the legitimacy of a president’s
administration. Perhaps most importantly, never before
had the nation had such clear evidence that one vote
truly could make a difference. Join in the discussion of
intrigue, drama, and the pivotal role of Colorado in the
presidential election of 1876.
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Greeley Philharmonic Orchestra
Timothy Fleming, Executive Director
Glen Cortese, Conductor
Wines of Note
SEPTEmbER 6, 2013 • 6:30-9 pm
UCCC monfort Concert Hall
You’re invited to join the GPO as we kick off our
103rd Season with our annual fundraiser, “Wines
of Note.” Delight all your senses with an evening
of wine-tasting, feasting, and socializing.
Continue the celebration when you try your hand
at our “Wall of Wine.” Take your chances and
you could bring home a top-notch bottle of wine!
A Visit to
Mother Russia
SEPTEmbER 20, 2013 • 7:30 pm
Union Colony Civic Center
Anne Marie McDermott, Piano
A Tour of Eastern
Europe
OctOber 19, 2013 • 7:30 pm
Desiree Elsevier, Viola
Viva Italia
Born in the USA
Robert Sullivan, Trumpet
John Musto, Piano
Amy Burton, Narrator/Singer
NOVEmbER 16, 2013 • 7:30 pm
Poinsettia Pops
December 7, 2013 • 7:30 pm
Marla Kavanaugh, Soprano
A Brass Christmas
December 13, 2013 • 7:30 pm
trinity episcopal church,
3800 W. 20th St., Greeley
Ken Singleton, Conductor
French Roast
JANUARy 25, 2014 • 7:30 pm
Viennese Voyage
FEbRUARy 14-15, 2014 • 7:30 pm
UNC Opera Department
Brian Luedloff, Director
march 8 • 7:30 pm
Children’s and
Family Concert
APRil 6, 2014 • 4 pm
US Astronaut
German Jaunt
mAy 3, 2014 • 7:30 pm
Glen Cortese, Piano/Conductor
Chris Jusell, Violin
Marcelo Sanches, Cello
UNC Combined Choirs
Kentucky
Derby Gala
may 3, 2014 • 2–5 pm
Presented by the GPO Guild
SEASON SPONSOR
All GPO concerts held at the Union Colony Civic Center
Call (970) 356-5000 for tickets.
Visit GreeleyPhilharmonic.com for more information
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Friday, August 9
Evening Programs
5:45– 9:00 pm
Under the Big Tent
7:00 pm
CARL JUNG (1875-1961) by George Frien
5:45 to 6:45 pm
Swing Band Music by The
Board of Directors
The Board of Directors was a brain
child of the late Bob Johnson shortly
after acquiring an eight-piece book of
arrangements from Paul Cox, a friend
of John Williamson who was playing
with Kream of the Krop at the time. Bob
wanted to pick the best players out of
the big band and call them “The Board
of Directors.” The group plays all the
traditional songs of the big band era,
plus tunes for dancing.
Sponsored by North Colorado Medical Center/Banner Health
sing high-powered telescopes,
astronomers explore the boundaries
of the universe. Using the instruments
of medical and social science, most
psychologists explore the boundaries of
the mind. Psychologist Carl Gustav Jung,
however, used the humanities disciplines
of philosophy, literature, history, religion,
mythology, and folklore to explore the
universe he called the “psyche.”
Jung was a colleague of Sigmund Freud
who explored with him the boundary
between the conscious mind and the
world of the unconscious. With Freud,
Jung saw dreams as a gateway between
conscious and unconscious life. Jung’s
early experiments with word association
tests offered empirical evidence of
unconscious contents in the psyche. The
word association tests he conducted
demonstrated that unconscious elements
sometimes interfere with conscious
responses to some of the words
suggested. This empirical evidence
supported both Freud’s and Jung’s own
dream analysis.
When the two psychiatrists traveled
to America in 1909 to lecture at Clark
University in Wooster, Massachusetts,
they talked endlessly about dreams and
even submitted their own dreams to
each other for analysis. What they found
in the unconscious were things that had
been forgotten and also things that had
been repressed. They found that the
unconscious contained residue from the
day’s activity. They recognized that dreams
often brought to light things that people
did not want to think about consciously.
To Freud, repressed sexual urges were
at the root of all psychological problems.
He used dreams to help patients face up
to facts that would let them live life free
from unconscious compulsions. Jung
agreed with Freud, but only in part.
Repressed sexuality, he thought, was
often the cause of mental problems, yet
not always. Nor was sexual libido the only
drive that operated in the psyche.
“Every civilized human being,
whatever his conscious
development, is still an archaic
man at the deeper levels of his
psyche.”
– Modern Man in Search of a Soul, 1933.
Even more significant for Jung was
another boundary between consciousness
and the unconscious. Jung distinguished
the personal unconscious from the
collective unconscious. The personal
unconscious contained material forgotten
or repressed from one’s own life. Deeper
in the psyche, in what Plato called
the “world soul,” was the collective
unconscious. Here was material inherited
from the ancestors; and understanding
dreams that came from this source –
across this boundary – called for a larger
than personal view of the psyche. The
human soul for Jung is ages old. And
even though we are largely unconscious
of it, the soul is filled with images and
feelings once expressed by our remote
ancestors.
Jung argued that when collective
contents erupt into consciousness in
dreams, we are confronted, not with a
uniquely personal issue, but with an
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age-old human question. To interpret
these dreams on the boundary of the
collective unconscious, Jung turned to the
humanities. He read ancient myths and
studied religious rituals that expressed
similar ideas. He looked for similar
imagery in the history of religion, folklore,
and philosophy. He explored an ancient
universe filled with psychic energy. With
the assistance of the humanities, Jung
and present-day “Jungians” help patients
bring ancestral wisdom to the task of
living more fully human lives than would
be possible if the psyche were only a
personal and not a world soul.
GEORGE FREIN
George Frein has been a Chautauqua
scholar and performer since 1986. He
has portrayed one missionary – Father
De Smet, one historian – Henry Adams,
two authors – Herman Melville and Mark
Twain, two presidents – John Adams and
Abraham Lincoln, one governor – John
Winthrop, two artists – John James
Audubon and Charles Wilson Peale, and
one murderer – Dr. Seuss, the man who
killed Dick and Jane. Keeping all of these
dead people alive and on friendly terms in
his mind makes George a little crazy. And
so for his mental health, he has added
one psychiatrist – Carl Jung.
RECOMMENDED READING
Carl Jung. Memories, Dreams, Reflections. Vintage.
1961. Autobiography.
Sonu Shamdasani. C. G. Jung: A Biography in Books.
Norton. 2012.
Deirdre Bair. Jung, a Biography. Little, Brown. 2003.
Thomas Kirsch. The Jungians. Routledge. 2000.
Friday, August 9
Evening Programs
8:00 pm
MARY SHELLEY (1797-1851) by Susan Marie Frontczak
Sponsored by High Plains Library District
hat bounds or circumscribes
being human? Consider: intellectual
prowess, physical strength and stamina,
attaining remote geographic destinations,
differentiation from animals, and
distinction from God. Mary Shelley
explores each of these boundaries in her
novel, Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus.
Whether or not you have read
Frankenstein, you are likely familiar with the
image of a massive humanoid and the
scientist who assembles him from corpses
in his laboratory. The scientist’s name is
Victor Frankenstein; his hideous creation
has no name (contrary to popular usage,
which often refers to the creature as
Frankenstein). The creature, it emerges,
has full human potential for caring, loyalty,
gratitude, even love; yet abandonment by
Victor and rejection and abuse by others
eventually drive him to monstrous revenge
on the man who created him. In light of
the creature’s tortured circumstances,
the reader is torn between horror at the
creature’s murders and pity for his plight.
Frankenstein raises provocative issues on
several levels:
Intellectual and Physical: Victor Frankenstein is
obsessed with extending the boundaries
of human knowledge by learning how
to create life. He builds a creature that is
larger than average because this makes
the smallest bits easier to work on.
Extraordinary strength and exceptional
intellectual aptitude accompany the
creature’s amplified size – traits that
surface later in the story. This raises the
potentially blasphemous question of
whether a creator can create something
more powerful than itself.
Biological: In Frankenstein’s creature we
meet a being struggling with his identity.
The creature masters language. He also
feels awe, wonder, loneliness, anger,
revenge, and remorse. Is the man-made
creature human or merely animal? Shelley
and her husband rescued mistreated
animals on the grounds that they, too,
had feelings. Thus in her own life, the
boundary between animal and human
blurred.
Divine: Frankenstein’s subtitle is The Modern
Prometheus. In Greek mythology, Prometheus
stole fire from the gods and gave it
to man. This angered the deities: fire
was too dangerous a power to give to
humans. “Fire” represents any human
knowledge to create inventions that
outstrip our moral ability to manage them.
Shelley dubs Frankenstein a “Modern
Prometheus” because he is motivated
more by personal glory than altruism and
therefore overlooks potential liabilities of
his inventions.
“Supremely frightful would
be the effect of any human
endeavor to mock the
stupendous mechanism of
the Creator of the world.”
Shelley dares to portray a human
venturing into God’s territory of Creation,
tacitly asking what responsibility a creator/
parent has toward his progeny. In this
regard, Frankenstein is less about the risks of
scientific advancement – Shelley did not
envision the actual creation of a human
remotely possible – but more about how
we treat abandoned members of society.
She depicts a wronged individual who
might have offered much if only humans
and circumstance had not conspired
against him.
Geographic: Frankenstein opens with a sea
captain seeking the elusive Northwest
Passage. Like Frankenstein, this captain is
obsessed with his potential achievement,
risking both ship and crew. Why this
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seeming detour in the plot? Readers,
with the captain, observe Frankenstein’s
journey. They are offered the chance
to reconsider the consequences of
boundary-bursting ambition. They
ask, “Do we really want to emulate
Frankenstein?”
SUSAN MARIE FRONTCZAK
Susan Marie Frontczak was first invited
to present as Mary Shelley in connection
with a traveling exhibit on Frankenstein
created jointly by the American Library
Association and the National Library of
Medicine. She is in her 19th year as a
full-time storyteller and 12th as a living
history presenter, having given over
500 presentations as Marie Curie, Mary
Shelley, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Irene
Castle across 33 of the United States,
Canada, and Europe.
Susan Marie is also dedicated to
helping others bring history to life. She
has been coaching storytellers for 22
years, Young Chautauquans for 10 years,
and adult Chautauquans for five. She
authored two handbooks published by
Colorado Humanities in 2008, one for
teachers and one for coaches, to help
Young Chautauquans discover how fun
and engaging history can be. When
bringing history to life, Susan Marie lives
up to her motto, “Give me a place to
stand, and I will take you somewhere
else.”
RECOMMENDED READING
Shelley, Mary. Frankenstein. (There are numerous
in-print editions. Most likely these will be the
1831 version rather than the 1818 version.
Shelley, Mary, adapted by Larry Weiinberg.
Frankenstein. Random House, 1982.
Suitable to grades 3 to 4.
Shelley, Mary, adapted by Malvina G. Vogel.
Frankenstein. Playmore, Inc., Publishers and
Waldman Publishing Corp. Illustrated Classics
Editions 2002. Suitable to grade 5.
Shelley, Mary, adapted by Margrete Lamond.
Frankenstein. Harper Collins, 2005.
Suitable to grades 6 to 8.
8:00 to 9:15 am
Saturday, August 10
Adult Programs
with Chautauquan
George Frein and Susan Marie Frontczak
Kress Cinema Lounge
817 8th Ave.
Morning:
Afternoon:
Kress Cinema Lounge
817 8th Avenue
Greeley Senior Activities Center Dining Room
1010 6th Street
Parking restrictions in the Senior Activities Center lot will
be waived during HPC programs on Saturday afternoon,
August 10. Entry to the lot is on 6th Street, between 10th
and 11th Avenues.
9:30 to 11:00 am
A Conversation with Orson Welles
Gil Moon as Orson Welles
Film discussion facilitated by David Caldwell
1:00 to 2:00 pm
Grappling with the Monster
Orson Welles was a life-long explorer. Remembered for his
imposing figure, commanding voice, blunt opinions and razor
wit, Welles fearlessly sought and surpassed new boundaries
for his artistic genius. As an actor, filmmaker and writer, he
left an indelible mark on American theater, cinema and radio,
always pushing the edges of what had been done before and
conjuring something new as a result. Join us as the great man
himself appears against a silver-screen backdrop of Welles’
most memorable two-dimensional movie images.
Local film expert David Caldwell will lead the conversation
while showing the audience examples of Welles’ acting and
direction and inviting questions to the impresario himself.
You’ll want to pull your pith helmets on tight for this fascinating
personal glimpse into a creative mind whose passion for
exploration gave us experiences as diverse as Shakespearean
intrigues, an invasion from Mars, and the delicate mystery of
“Rosebud.”
Gil Moon is a host for two regular broadcasts on radio station
1310 KFKA. He has been a long-time admirer and student of
Orson Welles, observing his life and work for over 10 years.
His performance piece “Impresario” has been presented in a
number of community venues in Northern Colorado.
David Caldwell is a professor at the University of Northern
Colorado, where he teaches in both the Film Studies and
Modern Languages programs and specializes in international
cinema. As is true of many who teach film studies, Orson
Welles’ Citizen Kane is a haunting presence in Dr. Caldwell’s
classroom.
What Mary Shelley wrote as science fiction is nearly reality
today. Consider: cloning, genetic engineering, and extension
of life or capability through artificial means. Explore the
boundaries of what is possible today, and the responsibility
that comes with discovery. First, as context, Frontczak gives
a brief overview of the plot and gist of the book Frankenstein, in
which it is not the scientific discovery, but the abandonment
of the discovery to irresponsible use that turns a creation
into a monster. Come ready to discuss questions and venture
opinions on a variety of ethical questions raised as a result of
being able to do things today that Mary Shelly presented in the
context of fiction. Frontczak will moderate a discussion of these
and other knotty questions.
2:15 to 3:15 pm
Jung’s Red Book
George Frein
This daytime program will examine the large, red leatherbound book in which C. G. Jung recorded and illustrated his
dreams and fantasies. The book was unfinished at his death
in 1961 and was not published until 2009. It gives readers
interested in Jung’s ideas a wonderful visual tour of his
psychology. Slides will show the medieval-style calligraphy
Jung used to write out his dreams and the full-color paintings
he created to record their visual impact. Participants in this
program will, no doubt, dream more vividly tonight.
Touch of Evil
directed by Orson Welles
a Mexican narcotics officer played by Charlton Heston. He is
newly married to Susan, an American played by Janet Leigh.
They have no sooner crossed the border from Mexico into the
United States than they meet Hank Quinlan (Orson Welles) who
breaks all stereotypes about incorruptible American justice. Be
prepared for more crossings, too, as we explore real and false
boundaries in discussing this riveting and suspenseful film.
Is there a touch of evil in the very way that we conceptualize
borders as absolute and immutable? Was that Marlene Dietrich
in that sleazy nightclub? And what about that opening scene?
Can you think of another movie that is worth watching for the
opening scene alone?
Touch of Evil, the 1958 Orson
Welles masterpiece, is the
perfect film for “exploring
boundaries.” Set in a nameless
town bisected by the U.S./
Mexican border, it takes us
back and forth across one
border after another – physical,
racial and ethical. First we
meet Ramon Miguel Vargas,
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Saturday, August 10
Evening Programs
6:00 - 9:00 pm
Under the Big Tent
7:00 pm
GENERAL WILLIAM CLARK (1770-1838) by Jeff Smith
Sponsored by High Sierra Water Services, LLC
or most people, William Clark’s
first name is “Lewis and.” The 29 months
he and Meriwether Lewis spent on their
odyssey to the Pacific and back made
them national celebrities, not unlike
astronauts in the 1960s. William Clark and
Meriwether Lewis were, in a way, the John
Glenn and Neil Armstrong of their day.
They were perhaps the most famous
explorers since Columbus, heading
westward from their homes with many
of the same motives. Thomas Jefferson
wanted them to find “the most direct
and practicable water communication
across this continent for the purposes of
commerce.”
The trek to the West beyond the
boundaries of known terrain transformed
Clark in ways neither he nor any of the
others could have imagined. He returned
as a man with a new respect for Native
American peoples, which helped shape
his vision of western development. He
became one of the great boosters for
the West and ranked among the most
respected authorities on United StatesAmerican Indian relations – by both sides.
To William Clark, the West was a source
of commercial activity and national
prosperity, where government took an
active role in protecting and facilitating
expansion of trade, transportation, and
culture. It was a place where Native
Americans could evolve into “civilized”
(i.e., agricultural, westernized) peoples
under the protective eye of the United
States. It was a source of scientific
knowledge, commerce, and even a route
to the lucrative Asian trade. And he
planned to be part of it.
Part of his reward was an appointment
as chief Indian agent for the region, which
necessitated moving to the frontier town
of St. Louis. He spent the rest of
his life there, seeing the former French
and Spanish settlement grow into a
thriving western city and staging point
for western development. He became
quite the booster for the area, too, telling
his brother that it “presents flattering
advantages at this time and I think it will
increase as the population increases,
which is beginning to be considerable.”
He became a leading voice in the great
national debate about the West: How
should it develop? What role should
government play? What about all the
people who already lived there when the
United States acquired it?
“This is an undertaking
fraited [freighted] with
many difficulties. But my
friend I do assure you that
no man lives with whom I
would prefer to undertake
such a trip as yourself.”
William Clark to Meriwether Lewis,
18 July 1803
Clark’s views on Native Americans didn’t
endear him to many expansionists, either.
He saw different races as part of a large
body of humanity that can presumably
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6:00 to 6:50 pm
Jazz by
The Dana Landry Quartet
Jazz pianist Dana Landry, who directs the
internationally recognized jazz studies program
at UNC, has given concerts throughout the
world and performs often with the Colorado
Symphony Orchestra. In the summer of 2012
the quartet toured Provence, France. Dana’s
CD Journey Home, featuring vibraphonist and
jazz legend Gary Burton, was nominated for a
Grammy award for its title track. For this special
Chautauqua concert, Dana and his bandmates
will feature interpretations of pieces from the
Great American Songbook. Joining him are Erik
Applegate on bass, Jim White on drums, and
vocalist Kelsey Shiba. Visit www.danalandry.com
for more information.
rise to the level of “civilization” of the
Euro-Americans with help through trade,
training, schools, land, and even annuities.
And he told them so. Clark’s home
became the site of numerous negotiations
between tribal leaders and himself. He
often offered the same message he had in
1805, a paternalistic view that the “Great
White Father” wished to help.
Today, William Clark remains stuck
on the Corps of Discovery. After all, it
did shape the rest of his life, leading
him to a life connecting East and West,
European and Native cultures with
commercial realms. His gravestone in
St. Louis’ Bellefountaine Cemetery,
constructed as part of the journey’s
centennial celebration, sports the heads
of buffalo and bear. But it recognizes him
as “statesman.”
JEFFREY SMITH
Jeffrey Smith is the Chair of the
History and Geography Department at
Lindenwood University in St. Louis. He
has portrayed Andrew Carnegie for more
than 15 years and William Clark since
2003 in various Chautauqua festivals,
including the Great Plains Chautauqua,
Missouri Chautauqua, and the Greenville
Chautauqua. Currently, Smith is writing a
social history of Bellefontaine Cemetery in
St. Louis.
RECOMMENDED READING
Foley, William E. Wilderness Journey: The Life of
William Clark. Columbia: University of Missouri
Press, 2004.
Jones, Landon P. William Clark and the Shaping of
the West. New York: Hill and Wang, 2004.
Ronda, James P. Lewis and Clark Among the Indians.
Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1984.
Smith, Jeffrey E., ed. Seeking a Newer World: The
Fort Osage Journals of George C. Sibley, 1808-1811.
St. Charles, Missouri: Lindenwood University
Press, 2003.
Saturday, August 10
Evening Programs
8:00 pm
AMELIA EARHART (1897-1937) by Elsa Wolff
Sponsored by Co’s BMV Center / MINI of Loveland
ore than 70 years have passed
since Amelia Earhart disappeared, yet she
has never vanished from the heart and
mind of our country. The name Amelia
represents the courage and determination
to dream beyond limitations. Amelia
lives on, not just because her death
is a mystery, but because her life is an
inspiration.
New frontiers were opening in America
with the machine age and aviation, as
with women getting the vote. A pioneer
on this social frontier, Amelia pushed
through expectations and restrictions of
the time, pursuing interests and activities
not considered proper for a young lady
and despite there being no easy path laid
before her.
Amelia came onto the scene during a
time of national obsession with record
setting. As a result, her success became
a source of national pride. With Amelia’s
accomplishments, the world suddenly
started looking at Americans as trendsetters. Amelia was an American and she
was a woman – a role model for women
wanting to redefine themselves as well as
a heroine for the country.
Amelia’s accomplishments and
popularity are best understood in the
context of her husband and promoter,
G.P. Putman, a driving force behind her
popularity. Starting out as his business
partner and then reluctantly accepting his
proposal, Amelia referred to their nontraditional marriage as a “reasonable and
contented partnership… a style of dual
control.”
Amelia was deeply committed to
the development and expansion of
the aviation industry. Industry leaders
recognized her ability to influence society
and wanted to capitalize on her iconic
status. Amelia had what she called a
“missionary zeal for the cause of aviation”
and took her ability to influence the
American public seriously.
Amelia was a founder and first
president of the “Ninety-Nines,” an
organization of women pilots. Feeling
strongly about women’s rights, she spoke
of her desire for women to be free to
pursue opportunity based on aptitude
and interest. She also spoke of concerns
about how the educational system keeps
boys and girls in pre-conceived societal
roles.
“My ambition is to have
this wonderful gift produce
practical results for the
future of commercial flying
and for the women who may
want to fly tomorrow.”
While serving as a career counselor
at Purdue University, Amelia was given
a dual-motored Lockeed Electra – her
“Flying Laboratory.” Her first project was
to be an “around the world” flight – a
daring and bold attempt for any pilot.
Unfortunately, this was to be Amelia’s last
adventure.
Amelia said, “It is true that there are
no more geographical frontiers to push
back, no new lands flowing with milk and
honey this side of the moon. But there are
economic, political, scientific and artistic
frontiers of the most exciting sort awaiting
faith and the spirit of adventure to
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discover them.” Those new frontiers exist
today. For those who push against
limitations, have the courage to dream,
and are willing to embark on new
adventures, may the life of Amelia Earhart
serve as an inspiration. A new frontier
awaits!
ELSA WOLFF
Elsa Wolff has been entertaining
audiences with singing and storytelling
for over 16 years. Known as “The Guitar
Lady,” her motto has always been,
“Music lifts the heart – Stories spark
the imagination.” After experiencing
the power of living history, Elsa trained
under Susan Marie Frontczak in 2007.
Inspired by Amelia Earhart’s courage,
determination, and spirit of adventure,
Elsa began the extensive research
necessary to bring her to life. She has
portrayed aviation’s “Queen of the
Air” throughout Colorado as well as at
Ashland Chautauqua in Ohio. Ranging
from courageous to comedic, Elsa also
enjoys appearing as “Minnie Pearl.” In
addition to performing, Elsa coaches
through the Colorado Humanities Young
Chautauqua Program.
RECOMMENDED READING
Amelia Earhart, The Fun of It. Chicago, Ill.:
Academy Chicago Publishers, 1932.
Amelia Earhart, Last Flight. Compiled by GP
Putnam. New York: Harcourt, Brace, 1937.
Mary S. Lovell, The Sound of Wings. New York: St.
Martin’s Press, 1989.
Muriel Earhart Morrissey and Carol L. Osborne,
Amelia, My Courageous Sister: Biography of
Amelia Earhart. Osborne Publisher, Inc. 1987.
George Putnam, Soaring Wings. New York:
Harcourt, Brace & Co., 1939.
for
joining us at 2013 High
Plains Chautauqua (HPC)
to experience one facet of
Greeley Unexpected. If you are
attending HPC for the first
time, I hope that you find it
to be an unexpectedly rich
experience.
Unexpected: In it's
inaugural year Chautauqua
consultant Clay Jenkinson,
a veteran of Chautauquas nationwide,
pronounced HPC the most successful
and well-attended opening week of any
Chautauqua he had known.
Unexpected: HPC contracts with the best
of the Chautauqua scholars, who portray
their characters throughout the nation.
They’ve often commented that, while
many Chautauqua festivals start strong, it’s
unusual for a festival to sustain itself and
even grow the way HPC has.
Unexpected: the warmth of the Greeley
welcome for Chautauqua scholars. Our
scholars are met as they enter the DIA
terminal and personally escorted to Greeley
by HPC volunteers. When they check in to
the hotel, they are handed keys to a car on
loan from Ehrlich Toyota, Ghent Chevrolet,
or Weld County Garage.
Unexpected: the hospitality
of Country Inn & Suites, the
Chautauqua-sponsor hotel.
Unexpected: the impressive
attentiveness and intelligent
questions by our audiences.
Unexpected: The poise and
scholarship of the Young
Chautauqua scholars, all
students of Greeley-Evans
School District 6.
Unexpected: The way the
Greeley community networks
to produce this event. Just
look at the long lists of sponsors, individual
donors and steering committee members,
representing so many segments of the
community. And assisting the steering
committee are many, many more volunteers
working for love of the community and the
event.
But then, maybe it’s not so unexpected
after all, if you’ve taken time to know
Greeley and its incredible cultural richness:
•The Greeley Philharmonic Orchestra
is one of the oldest symphony orchestras
in the nation and the oldest in continuous
existence west of the Mississippi. It recently
celebrated its 100th season.
•University of Northern Colorado’s Little
Theatre of the Rockies, now in its 79th
season, is the oldest continually operating
professional theater company in Colorado
Join us August 5 to 9, 2014
for High Plains Chautauqua!
Americans think of ourselves as hopelessly divided and
politically stalemated today. Our frustration, however,
cannot begin to compare with the bitter divisions
confronting Americans of the Civil War and Reconstruction
eras. From the deaths of more than 600,000 to the birth
of Jim Crow, Americans knew the perils of conflict and
disunion as we have never known them since. Still, amid
the scourge of war and anguish of reconstruction there
emerged a new, stronger nation tempered in the crucible
of conflict and yearning for rededication to the proposition
that all men and women are created equal. In 2014, High
Plains Chautauqua will look anew at this extraordinary time
in our nation’s history, and at how the great American West
played a pivotal role in the rebirth of our nation.
and one of the oldest in the nation.
•DownBeat, the country's leading jazz
magazine, has once again recognized the
University Symphony Orchestra and UNC
Jazz Lab Band 1 as among the world's
best. Dana Landry (Saturday night’s
musical performer) directs the UNC Jazz
Department.
•The Greeley Chorale, Greeley Chamber
Orchestra, and the Stampede Troupe
feature talented local performers.
•Diverse cultural events that include the
UNC Jazz Festival, Cinco de Mayo, Blues
Jam, Greeley Fiesta, Greeley Stampede,
Arts Picnic, Oktoberfest, Friday Fest/GoCup summer concerts, and an incredible
line-up of national touring shows at our
beautiful Union Colony Civic Center.
•Greeley’s Creative District with
numerous venues, artists and galleries.
So don’t just go home. Stick around to
experience more of Greeley Unexpected.
Sincerely,
Jane Adams
Director, High Plains Chautauqua
Donations to keep High Plains
Chautauqua coming back each year
can be made payable to “Colorado
Humanities” and addressed to
Colorado Humanities, 7935 E.
Prentice Avenue, Suite 450,
Greenwood Village, CO 80111.
Be sure to write “HPC” on the
memo line.
If you would like to get involved
in producing next year’s event,
please call the Greeley Chamber
of Commerce/”Visit Greeley” at
(970) 352-3567, or call Colorado
Humanities at (303) 894-7951.
Individual volunteer opportunities
are available in many areas
throughout the year – fundraising,
program, marketing, and volunteer
coordinating. You can also assist in
numerous ways during the festival.
Follow our website,
www.highplainschautauqua.org,
in the coming months for a photo
gallery of this year’s Chautauqua
and to see plans for 2014 HPC as
they are being developed.

Centennial Sponsors - Colorado Humanities

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