The mere mention of "Tuna Noodle Casserole"-the one made with canned tuna, packaged noodles, and canned soup-to an American of a certain age can call up powerful memories. Love it or hate it, Tuna Noodle Casserole has been an icon of American home cooking since the 1950s. The program invites the audience to think about the ways in which the family dinner table and American culture have changed since the days of Leave it to Beaver and to consider the role of the food industry in American food culture.
Journey Stories tells how we and our ancestors came to America. From Native Americans to new American citizens and regardless of our ethnic or racial background, everyone has a story to tell.
This special opening day will feature a ribbon cutting ceremony at 1:00 p.m. Afterwards, Dr. Loren Horton, Emeritus Senior Historian of the State Historical Society of Iowa, will lead a family and oral history workshop, offering advice on the recording and preserving of personal and family journey stories through memoir writing and oral interviews.
Our history is filled with stories of people leaving behind everything - families and possessions - to reach a new life in another state, across the continent, or even across an ocean.
Many chose to move, searching for something better in a new land. Others had no choice, like enslaved Africans captured and relocated to a strange land and bravely asserting their own cultures, or like Native Americans already here, who were often violently removed by newcomers.
This exhibition runs from December 12, 2009 - January 24, 2010. The exhibit hours are:
Dr. Loren Horton, Emeritus Senior Historian, from the State Historical Society of Iowa, has made a study of diaries of extraordinary people doing extraordinary things. As an opening program, he will feature some of these diary excerpts kep by travelers along overland trails to the American West. He will offer a workshop and advice for recording personal and family journey stories through memoir writing and oral history.
A Road Scholar Program by Lee Murdock
Lee Murdock has uncovered a boundless body of music and stories in the Great Lakes region (16 CDs and 2 books so far). There is an amazing timelessness in this music. Great Lakes songs are made of hard work, hard-living, ships that go down, and ships that come in. The music is grounded in the work-song tradition from the rugged days of lumberjacks and wooded sailing schooners. Murdock comes alongside with ballads of contemporary commerce and revelry in the grand folk style. Making folk music for the modern era, Murdock's work is a documentary and an anthem to the people who live, work, learn, and play along the freshwater highways of North America.
A chronicle of Murphysboro and its residents documented by students in Southern Illinois University Carbondale's School of Mass Communications and Media Arts. The event will include a reception, a viewing of gallery photos related to the project, and on-line access to and live screening of the "A Weekend in Murphysboro" website.
Journey Stories tells how we and our ancestors came to America. From Native Americans to new American citizens and regardless of our ethnic or racial background, everyone has a story to tell.
Our history is filled with stories of people leaving behind everything - families and possessions - to reach a new life in another state, across the continent, or even across an ocean.
Many chose to move, searching for something better in a new land. Others had no choice, like enslaved Africans captured and relocated to a strange land and bravely asserting their own cultures, or like Native Americans already here, who were often violently removed by newcomers.
This exhibit runs December 12, 2009 - January 24, 2010. The exhibit hours are:
Monday through Friday: 9:00 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.
Thursday through Thursday: Special extended hours from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.
Saturday and Sunday: 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Literature & Medicine: Humanities at the Heart of Healthcare is a discussion-based program that brings hospital staff together monthly to reflect on the larger mission of medicine through facilitated conversations about literature.
*Please note that the museum has additional hours today from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.Our history is filled with stories of people leaving behind everything - families and possessions - to reach a new life in another state, across the continent, or even across an ocean.
Many chose to move, searching for something better in a new land. Others had no choice, like enslaved Africans captured and relocated to a strange land and bravely asserting their own cultures, or like Native Americans already here, who were often violently removed by newcomers.
This exhibit runs December 12, 2009 - January 24, 2010. The exhibit hours are:
Monday through Friday: 9:00 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.
Thursday through Thursday: Special extended hours from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.
Saturday and Sunday: 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.
*Please note that the museum has additional hours today from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.
Journey Stories tells how we and our ancestors came to America. From Native Americans to new American citizens and regardless of our ethnic or racial background, everyone has a story to tell.
Our history is filled with stories of people leaving behind everything - families and possessions - to reach a new life in another state, across the continent, or even across an ocean.
Many chose to move, searching for something better in a new land. Others had no choice, like enslaved Africans captured and relocated to a strange land and bravely asserting their own cultures, or like Native Americans already here, who were often violently removed by newcomers.
This exhibit runs December 12, 2009 - January 24, 2010. The exhibit hours are:
Monday through Friday: 9:00 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.
Thursday through Thursday: Special extended hours from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.
Saturday and Sunday: 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Reports that golf superstar Tiger Woods had an early morning crash in his Escalade near his Florida mansion on Nov. 27 quickly became the talk of the nation and the world. The fact that the incident occurred while he was out driving at 2:30 a.m. raised a lot of initial questions. The speculation that his wife, Elin, reportedly used a golf club to help extricate him from the SUV brought more mystery and innuendo to the story. Then Woods’ silence on the accident only added more scandal-heightened drama to what has become the most covered celebrity story of the year.
Since then, it has been the daily new revelations about Woods’ numerous affairs that continue to propel the media and gossip machines and shreds the cocoon of privacy that the golfer had so carefully built around himself and his image. Since the accident and Woods’ statement on his web site alluding to his “transgressions,” news outlets and bloggers around the globe, along with thousands on Facebook and Twitter, began a 24/7 focus on every aspect of his personal life and public persona.
*Please note that the museum has additional hours today from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.
Journey Stories tells how we and our ancestors came to America. From Native Americans to new American citizens and regardless of our ethnic or racial background, everyone has a story to tell.
Our history is filled with stories of people leaving behind everything - families and possessions - to reach a new life in another state, across the continent, or even across an ocean.
Many chose to move, searching for something better in a new land. Others had no choice, like enslaved Africans captured and relocated to a strange land and bravely asserting their own cultures, or like Native Americans already here, who were often violently removed by newcomers.
This exhibit runs December 12, 2009 - January 24, 2010. The exhibit hours are:
Monday through Friday: 9:00 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.
Thursday through Thursday: Special extended hours from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.
Saturday and Sunday: 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Journey Stories tells how we and our ancestors came to America. From Native Americans to new American citizens and regardless of our ethnic or racial background, everyone has a story to tell.
Our history is filled with stories of people leaving behind everything - families and possessions - to reach a new life in another state, across the continent, or even across an ocean.
Many chose to move, searching for something better in a new land. Others had no choice, like enslaved Africans captured and relocated to a strange land and bravely asserting their own cultures, or like Native Americans already here, who were often violently removed by newcomers.
This exhibit runs December 12, 2009 - January 24, 2010. The exhibit hours are:
Monday through Friday: 9:00 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.
Thursday through Thursday: Special extended hours from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.
Saturday and Sunday: 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.
Journey Stories tells how we and our ancestors came to America. From Native Americans to new American citizens and regardless of our ethnic or racial background, everyone has a story to tell.
Our history is filled with stories of people leaving behind everything - families and possessions - to reach a new life in another state, across the continent, or even across an ocean.
Many chose to move, searching for something better in a new land. Others had no choice, like enslaved Africans captured and relocated to a strange land and bravely asserting their own cultures, or like Native Americans already here, who were often violently removed by newcomers.
This exhibit runs December 12, 2009 - January 24, 2010. The exhibit hours are:
Monday through Friday: 9:00 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.
Thursday through Thursday: Special extended hours from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.
Saturday and Sunday: 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.
