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 exhibition runs from January 30 - March 14, 2010.
A Road Scholar Program by Tim Engles
Tim Engles, Professor of Multicultural American Literature and Critical Whiteness Studies, examines racial whiteness in America from his own individual perspective, by examining relevant moments from his own past that subtly taught him how to "be" white. Audience members of all racial backgrounds are encouraged to articulate their own, often buried experiences with racial whiteness.
Mark Twain said "Inventors are the creators of the world-after God." This presentation is a first-person Chautauqua style program by Warren Brown as Mark Twain. You will journey on water, land, and air sharing insights from the "Diaries of Adam and Eve" to friendships with inventors and thoughts about Galileo and Newton. "I have found out there ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them."- Mark Twain.
The Meaning of Service (MoS) is a reading and discussion program for Americorps volunteers featuring discussions that use short philosophical and literary texts on the nature of justice, service, and related themes. Meaning of Service presents participants with the opportunity to examine, refine, and regenerate the beliefs underlying their work.
In November, the U.S. Department of Agriculture reported that 49 million Americans, including nearly 17 million children, are food insecure. Last week, in a look closer to home, the Greater Chicago Food Depository—in conjunction with Feeding America—released “Hunger in America 2010: Chicago Profile.” From 2006 to 2009, the report said, the number of county residents visiting food banks, soup kitchens and shelters jumped 36 percent.
The report also revealed:
The face of hunger
- About 37% of the people the Food Depository serves are under 18
- 6% of clients are homeless
- 34% of households include at least one employed adult
- 44% receive SNAP/Food Stamp benefits
- 22% report their main source of income is from a job
Demographic breakdown
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 exhibition runs from January 30 - March 14, 2010.
A Road Scholar Program by Sharon Alter
First Ladies have fascinated Americans since the founding of the Republic. Yet, they have been anything but a homogenous group. In this examination of contemporary first ladies, Sharon Alter compares and contrasts the roles, trials and tribulations, and accomplishments of Betty Ford, Rosalynn Carter, Nancy Reagan, Barbara Bush, and Hillary Rodham Clinton as First Ladies.
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 exhibition runs from January 30 - March 14, 2010.
