What's Happening Around the Country?
Events in Your State with an Immigration Theme?
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Alabama 5/23/08
Please Pass the Folklore: Family Traditions in the Kitchen and Around
the Dinner Table, a presentation by Joyce Cauthen
Alabama Humanities Foundation
Green Briar at Altamont (Birmingham)
3:00 pm
Contact: Diana Ausbun, 205-174-3149
Arizona
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California
Radio Documentary: “Growing Old in East L.A.: Conversations with Elderly
Mexican Americans”
California Council for the Humanities
In spring 2005, project director David Greenberger visited senior centers
and other sites in East Los Angeles, recording conversations with a number
of elderly Mexican American residents. This hour-long radio documentary
explores the challenges this population faces in creating a life in California.
Listen to the broadcast at: www.calhum.org/programs/doc_growing_old_special.htm
Look for recently funded California Story Fund projects by the California
Council for the Humanities for an abundance of immigration-related projects
in California. The best resource for information on these projects is
the website, www.calhum.orgwww.calhum.org,
Early 2008
A “Coming to California” website
California Council for the Humanities
A new website will provide an in-depth look at California immigration.
The site will feature the personal stories of immigrants and refugees,
from California’s earliest days to the present time. The site will
include personal stories, historical information, primary sources such
as letters, photos and newspaper articles. An 11th grated curriculum will
accompany the site.
Questions about the site should be addressed to Ralph Lewin, Associate
Executive Director of the California Council for the Humanities; rlewin@calhum.org.
2/08 – 8/30/08
“The Chinese of California: A Struggle for Community”
Joint Project of the Bancroft Library, California Historical Society and
Chinese Historical Society
The California Historical Society
678 Mission Street
San Francisco, CA 94105
Contact: 415-357-1848 or email info@calhist.orginfo@calhist.org
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Colorado
7/4/08
“Correcting the Past: The Memory of Historical Injury and the Hope
for Remedy,” a presentation by Patricia Limerick
Colorado Historical Society
Offered as part of the Japanese American National Museum’s Enduring
Communities National Conference at the Hyatt Regency, Denver
11:00 am
Contact: www.janm.org/projects/ec/conference/
Illinois
5/8-10/08
“Reconstructing Italians in Chicago: Twenty Authors in Search of
Roots and Branches”
Sponsored by The Italian Cultural Center at Casa Italia, the National
Italian American Foundation, the Illinois Humanities Council, The Italian
American Executives of Transportation, Leonard Amari and Freddy’s
Pizza
Casa Italia Stone Park
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Indiana
5/23/08
5/30/08
The Marketing of Ethnicity
Indiana Historical Society and OASIS Institute
Eugene and Marilyn Glick Indiana History Center
10:00 am-12:00 noon
Contact: 317-233-5659; cost $5; reading materials available
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Kentucky
5/14/08
5/21/08
5/28/08
Museum Theatre: In the Veins—Conversations from a Coal Town
The Kentucky Historical Society
Thomas D. Clark Center for Kentucky History, Frankfort
Contact: Greg Hardison, greg.hardison@ky.gov
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Maryland
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Massachusetts
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Missouri
Exhibit: From Kettle to Keg: Brewing in St. Louis, 1809-1909
Missouri History Museum
Now Through January 2009
5/13/08
Island of Roses: The Jews of Rhodes in Los Angeles
Lunch and Learn Series, Missouri History Museum, AT&T Multipurpose
Room
12 noon to 1:00 pm
5/24/08
“Come One, Come All: Immigration in St. Louis”
Gallery Talks at the Missouri History Museum – Meet in Seeking St.
Louis: Currents
2:00 pm
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New Mexico
6/07/08
Our Gift From Spain: How Mediterranean Plants and Foods Came to New Mexico,
a presentation by William Dunmire
New Mexico Humanities Council
El Camino Real Heritage Center, Socorro
2:00 pm
Contact: Claudia J. Gallardo, 505-854-3600
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New York
5/15/08
Immigration and the Idea of America
New York Council for the Humanities
New City Library
Contact: 845-634-4997
5/17/08
Traveling the New York City African American Experience 1623-1830, a lecture
by Sherrill D. Wilson
New York Council for the Humanities
Wyckoff House and Association, 5816 Claredon Road, Brooklyn
1:15 pm
Contact: 718-629-5400, www.wyckoffassociation.org
5/21/08
History in Every Bite: Plotting New York City’s Place in the Food
Chain
New York Council for the Humanities
Pittsford Community Library, 24 State Street, Pittsford
7:00 pm
Contact: www.townofpittsford.org/home-library
5/22/08
Faces of Jewish Humor: The Saga of the Shlemiel and the Shlimazel, a lecture
by Ruth Adler
New York Council for the Humanities
JCC Y of Rockland, 900 Route 35, New City
Contact: 845-362-4400
5/22/08
Tracing Italian American Immigrant History to the Italian American Present,
a lecture by Salvatore Primeggia
New York Council for the Humanities
William K. Sanford Town Library, 629 Albany Shaker Road, Loudonville
7:00 pm
Contact: 518-458-9274, www.colonie.org/library
5/28/08
From Wiseguys to Wise Men: Masculinities and the Italian American Gangster,
a lecture by Fred Gardaphe
New York Council for the Humanities
Temple Hillel, 1000 Rosedale Road, North Woodmere
11:45 am
Contact: 516-569-6733
5/29/08
Tracing Italian American Immigrant History to the Italian American Present,
a lecture by Salvatore Primeggia
New York Council for the Humanities
Division Avenue High School, 120 Division Avenue, Levittown
1:00 pm
Contact: Call the school.
5/29/08
“Where Have You Gone Joe DiMaggio,” Jackie Robinson, and Hank
Greenberg: Ethnic Heroes in Baseball’s Melting Pot, a lecture by
William M. Simons
New York Council for the Humanities
Mount Saint Mary College, Center for Community and Educational Services,
Desmond Campus, 6 Albany Post Road, Newburgh
6:00 pm
Contact: 845-565-2076, www.msmc.edu
5/30/08
“In America” Film Screening and Discussion
New York Council for the Humanities
The Parrish Art Museum, 25 Job’s Lane, Southampton
7:00 pm
Contact: 631-283-2118
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Ohio
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Oregon
5/22/2008
Jewish Pioneers in Eastern Oregon: The Case of Samuel Rothchild, a presentation
by Jack Sanders (Oregon Chautauqua)
Oregon Council for the Humanities
Echo Public Library, City Hall Auditorium, 20 S. Bonanza, Echo
7:00 pm
Contact: Diane Berry, 541-376-8411
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Pennsylvania
5/15/08
The Music, Dance and Instruments of the PA Dutch, a presentation by Keith
Britzenhoff
Pennsylvania Humanities Council
Upper Lehigh Lioness Club
7:00 pm
Contact: Barbara Stangle, 610-261-0416
5/27/08
American Life Stories: Firoozah Dumas’s, Funny in Farsi
Pennsylvania Humanities Council
Mary S. Biesecker Public Library, Somerset County
7:00 pm
Contact: Denise Weaver, 814-445-4011
5/28/08
American Life Stories: Firoozah Dumas’s, Funny in Farsi
Pennsylvania Humanities Council
Free Library of Philadelphia, Wynnefield Branch, Philadelphia County
6:00 pm
Contact: Mae Laster, 215-685-0298
6/1/08
To Speak Her Heart: A History of Jewish Women’s Devotional Literature,
a presentation by Wendy I. Zierler
Pennsylvania Humanities Council
Rodef Shalom Congregation, Allegheny County
10:30 am
Contact: Barbara Rogal, 412-681-1537
6/3/08
Ukrainian Immigration to the Coal Region of NE PA, by Paula Duda Holviak
Pennsylvania Humanities Council
Greater Shenandoah Area Historical Society, Schuylkill County
7:00 pm
Contact: Edith Sinkiewicz, 570-462-0339
6/24/08
American Life Stories: Frank McCourt’s, ‘Tis
Pennsylvania Humanities Council
Mary S. Biesecker Public Library, Somerset County
7:00 pm
Contact: Denise Weaver, 814-445-4011
6/25/08
American Life Stories: Frank McCourt’s, ‘Tis
Pennsylvania Humanities Council
Free Library of Philadelphia, Wynnefield Branch, Philadelphia County
6:00 pm
Contact: Mae Laster, 215-685-0298
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Photo Credit: Chinese man crossing street with two children holding hands.
F. L. Washburn. Courtesy of Library of Congress.
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