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SUMMARY:Pigskin Peanuts
DESCRIPTION:January 16 – April 17\, 2021\nLucy first pulled the football away from Charlie Brown on November 16\, 1952. Known as “The Fall Classic” it became a rite of autumn in American pop culture. The annual “pulling away of the football” was shown nearly every year through the run of the Peanuts comic strip. Artist Charles M. Schulz created nearly 50 years of unique endings to the famous football gag.\nThe Upcountry History Museum in partnership with the Charles M. Schulz Museum and Research Center will host Pigskin Peanuts\, a retrospective exhibition that examines Schulz’s love of the game. Greenville\, South Carolina will be the final stop on the Pigskin Peanuts international tour.\nThe 3000 square foot exhibit showcases Peanuts football-themed comic strips\, artifacts and ephemera to illustrate how sports\, specifically football\, evolved and played a role in the Peanuts comics.\nCharlie Brown’s missed kick wasn’t the only Peanuts football story. The exhibition\, divided into five sections\, examines the evolution of football in the Peanuts stories including Vintage Pigskin\, The Fall Classic\, Snoopy’s Gridiron Tales\, Woodstock Plays Football\, and Girls Rule (Sally\, Peppermint Patty and Marcie).
URL:https://upcountryhistory.org/event/pigskin-peanuts/
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SUMMARY:White Christmas: The Exhibition
DESCRIPTION:Extended – Now Closing February 13\, 2021\nIn December of 1941\, seventeen days after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor\, Bing Crosby made the first live radio performance of a new song called “White Christmas.” Crosby’s unforgettable voice\, singing what would become one of the most iconic Christmas songs ever written\, went almost unnoticed in the flurry of activity around the United States entry into World War II. \nThe song had been created by songwriter Irving Berlin\, a Jewish Russian immigrant. Its nostalgic view of an ideal snowy northeastern Christmas had to wait until the August 1942 release of the movie Holiday Inn before its popularity would take off. Within a month of the film’s premiere\, sheet music and record sales propelled “White Christmas” to the top of the Hit Parade music chart for 10 weeks beginning in November 1942. From that point on\, “White Christmas” became an instant classic and one of the most patriotic songs of World War II. \nThe song won the Academy Award for Best Original Song in 1942 and was such a hit\, that Berlin decided to write an entire movie around it. \nPrior to the film’s release in the fall of 1954\, Variety wrote that “White Christmas should be a natural at the box office…with a hot ensemble including Bing Crosby\, Danny Kaye\, Rosemary Clooney\, Vera-Ellen\, and an Irving Berlin score.” Variety was right; White Christmas became the highest grossing film of 1954 and the highest grossing musical film of all-time. \nThe Upcountry History Museum in partnership with the Rosemary Clooney House\, Augusta\, Kentucky and a private collector\, will host White Christmas – The Exhibition in the Fall of 2020. Greenville\, South Carolina will be the second U.S. city to host the 2000 square foot exhibit. \nOriginal White Christmas film costumes created by legendary designer Edith Head\, props\, sheet music\, cast member’s personal memorabilia\, archival materials\, replica backdrops and more will invite visitors to experience first-hand the musical genius of Irving Berlin and the making of this beloved holiday film about two WWII veterans who team up with a singing sister duo to save a faltering Vermont lodge owned by the veteran’s former commanding officer.
URL:https://upcountryhistory.org/event/white-christmas-the-exhibition/
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SUMMARY:Ghost Trail: U.S. Marines and the Battle of Tarawa in the Pacific\, 1943
DESCRIPTION:August 22\, 2020 – January 3\, 2021\nThe November 1943 invasion of the Gilbert Islands was the beginning of the U.S. “island hopping” campaign in the central Pacific during World War II. U.S. commanders determined that amphibious attacks on Japanese-occupied islands was the key to victory. The island of Tarawa was the first target in the Allied campaign. \nAbout 80 nautical miles north of the equator\, Tarawa is the largest atoll of the Gilberts\, a 16-island chain roughly halfway between Hawaii and Papua New Guinea. The Japanese seized the then-British-occupied isle just days after Japan’s December 7\, 1941 attack at Pearl Harbor. Tarawa’s main island Betio\, was the target of the Navy and Marine Corps in November of 1943. \nThe Battle of Tarawa\, November 20-23\, 1943\, was the first major American offensive in the central Pacific. Until then\, Americans hadn’t faced much opposition during amphibious assaults. But Tarawa was different. The initial landings by the 2nd Marine Division met a heavily fortified Japanese force. \nJapanese Rear Admiral Meichi Shibasaki\, said “a million Americans” wouldn’t be able to take Tarawa in “100 years.” Americans took Tarawa in 76 hours. \nFew military battles have matched the concentrated ferocity of the three-day fight between U.S. and Japanese forces in November 1943 for a sandy sliver of land halfway between Pearl Harbor and the Philippines. The U.S. delivery of coordinated land\, sea and air power brought a U.S. force of over 30\,000 men\, a 10-1 advantage over the Japanese. \nTarawa was an essential WWII stepping-stone across the Pacific. In what one combat correspondent called “the toughest battle in Marine Corps history\,” U.S. Marines wrestled it away at a cost of more than 1\,009 men. All but 17 of the 3\,500 dug-in Japanese defenders were killed\, along with 1\,100 Korean slave laborers. The search for the missing bodies of more than 100 U.S. Marines buried on the island continues today. \nThe Upcountry History Museum in partnership with the U.S. Navy History and Heritage Command will commemorate the service and sacrifice of the U.S. Marines at the Battle of Tarawa through a special exhibition featuring original combat art by Kerr Eby who traveled with the Marines in the South Pacific and landed with the invasion force at Tarawa\, photography\, rare film footage and artifacts.
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SUMMARY:Adventures with Clifford the Big Red Dog
DESCRIPTION:The Upcountry History Museum and America’s beloved big red dog with a heart to match will invite visitors to board the Birdwell Island ferry and journey to the world of Clifford The Big Red Dog. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAdventures with Clifford The Big Red Dog\, an interactive\, bi-lingual (English and Spanish)\, exhibition featuring Clifford\, Emily Elizabeth and all the residents of Birdwell Island will delight Upstate fans when it makes a stop at the Upcountry History Museum in the summer of 2020. \nInspired by Scholastic Entertainment’s top-rated TV show Clifford The Big Red Dog on PBS Kids\, the 2000 square foot multi-sensory experience offers numerous “paws-on” adventures that reinforce “Clifford’s 10 Big Ideas.” These simple tangible life lessons are designed to help young children navigate their world: Share\, Play Fair\, Have Respect\, Work Together\, Be Responsible\, Be Truthful\, Be Kind\, Believe in Yourself\, Be a Good Friend\, and Help Others. \nAs visitors explore Adventures with Clifford The Big Red Dog\, they encounter the people and places that make-up Clifford’s world. From boarding the Birdwell Island ferry to greeting the nine-foot tall Clifford The Big Red Dog in his own backyard\, visitors playfully explore the exhibition’s themed areas and discover “Clifford’s Big Ideas”. \nDesigned for children ages 2 to 8 and their caregivers\, the exhibition’s content and themed environments are drawn from the places found on Birdwell Island. Each of the ten exhibit areas emphasize the importance of literacy and social-emotional development. Activities are designed to offer safe and inviting experiences for the youngest visitors while offering challenges for older children. Adult caregivers are addressed specifically through text and graphics\, which highlight the exhibit’s educational messages and “Clifford’s Big Ideas”. \nVisitors will also meet Norman Bridwell\, creator of Clifford The Big Red Dog at the Birdwell Island Library. Bridwell created the first Clifford The Big Red Dog book in 1962\, based on the dog he dreamed of riding and sharing adventures with as a little boy. Today\, the best-selling\nbook series includes more than 160 Clifford titles\, 100 million books in print and an award-winning PBS Kids television show. \nThe exhibit’s timeless lessons\, bolstered by the series’ enduring popularity and multi-generation appeal\, support adult-child engagement and a child’s growth in 21st century skills laying a foundation for success in life\, school and work. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nSponsored by: PRISMA\, Quality Business Solutions\, Publix Super Markets\, C&S Wholesale Grocers\, and WSPA News Channel 7
URL:https://upcountryhistory.org/event/adventures-with-clifford-the-big-red-dog/
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SUMMARY:UHM Virtual Tour - Dueling Pistols
DESCRIPTION:While school is out and outside interaction is limited\, virtual field trips can provide a great adventure! Follow the link below to take a virtual tour through the Museum’s permanent galleries.\n  \n\n  \nEach week we will focus on one particular artifact\, event in history\, gallery or exhibit. So\, check back regularly to continue learning about Upcountry history. \n  \n\n  \nWEEK THREE: DUELING PISTOLS \nPistols like this would have been used in the duel between Benjamin Perry and Turner Bynum. According to The Code of Honor\, the rule book for dueling Southerners\, “the arms used should be smooth-bore pistols\, not exceeding nine inches in length.” Directly beside the dueling pistols (generously donated by Charles Blakely)\, you will find a copy of The Code of Honor. This book set the standards for southern dueling. It was published in 1858 by former South Carolina Governor\, John L. Wilson. The state outlawed the practice of dueling in 1880. \n\n  \nTo find our dueling pistols\, click on the image above. Once directed to the Virtual Tour\, press the play button\, making sure to give the app a few seconds to load fully before it brings you back to the main lobby area\, in front of the courthouse steps. Once at the courthouse steps\,  simply click to the left side of the screen. Travel behind the drover and his pigs. Pass through the Upcountry Frontier gallery and take a right past the elevator doors. Here you will find the display of the dueling pistols and The Code of Honor. \nWant to learn more on dueling? Click HERE! \n  \n\n  \nWEEK TWO: MAC ARNOLD’S GAS CAN GUITAR \nArnold’s first gas can guitar was something he and his older brother Leroy created out of necessity. Leroy wanted a guitar\, but his father wouldn’t allow it\, so they made their own. The two collected scrap materials around the family’s Pelzer farm\, such as strips of screen from a screen door for the strings. Arnold learned how to play the gas can guitar by age 10. Eventually\, he got a six string guitar and later switched to the electric bass. By the time he was 24\, he was in the center of the electric blues movement in Chicago. While in LA\, he worked with some of the country’s most talented and well-known recording artists. \nWhen he returned to South Carolina\, he remembered the gas can guitar he made with his brother and set out to make a new one. It took him 18 months to track down the proper materials and six to re-learn playing the homemade guitar. He has since returned to his Upcountry roots\, playing with his band\, “Mac Arnold and Plate Full O’ Blues.” \n  \n\n  \nTo find Mac Arnold’s gas can guitar\, affectionately named “Maggie Mae\,” click on the image above. Once directed to the Virtual Tour\, press the play button\, making sure to give the app a few seconds to load fully before it brings you back to the main lobby area\, in front of the courthouse steps. Once at the courthouse steps\,  simply click in the middle of the screen 4x until you are at the Vardry McBee statue (pictured below). Then scan to the right until you are facing the white chapel. Walk in the chapel and “Maggie Mae” will be immediately to your right. \n  \n\n  \nWEEK ONE: THE GREENVILLE & COLUMBIA RAILROAD \nIn 1832\, Vardry McBee and his contemporaries supported the construction of a railroad from Charleston to Cincinnati. They hoped it would help the economy and symbolize a political union of North and South understanding. There was a lot of debate locally over the construction of the railroad\, but McBee’s vision ultimately prevailed. At the time of his investment of $50\,000 in the Upcountry portion of rail (the Greenville and Columbia Railroad)\, it was the largest investment in a U.S. railroad. The segment was completed in 1853 and increased the value of good in Greenville by 45 percent. \n  \n\n  \nTo find this particular display\, click on the image above. Once directed to the Virtual Tour\, press the play button\, making sure to give the app a few seconds to load fully before it brings you back to the main lobby area\, in front of the courthouse steps. Once at the courthouse steps\,  simply click in the middle of the screen 4x and you will find yourself in front of the Vardry McBee and Railroad display. \n  \n  \n  \nThank you to South Carolina ETV for creating and sharing this virtual museum tour. \n 
URL:https://upcountryhistory.org/event/uhm-virtual-tour/
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SUMMARY:Read of the Week - Nathanael Greene
DESCRIPTION:Eulogy on Nathanael Greene\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNew York\, July 4\, 1789 \n\n\nEulogium on the late Major General Greene by Alexander Hamilton \nThere is no duty that could have been assigned to me by this Society\, which I should execute with greater alacrity than the one I am now called upon to perform. All the motives capable of interesting an ingenuous and feeling mind conspire to prompt me to its execution. To commemorate the talents virtues and exploits of great and good men is at all times a pleasing task to those\, who know how to esteem them. But when such men to the title of superior merit join that of having been the defenders and guardians of our country—when they have been connected with us as companions in the same dangers\, sufferings\, misfortunes and triumphs—when they have been allied to us in the still more endearing character of friends—we recal the ideas of their worth with sensations\, that affect us yet more nearly\, and feel an involuntary propensity to consider their fame as our own. We seem to appropriate to ourselves the good they have acquired\, and to share in the very praise we bestow. \nIn entering upon a subject in which Your feelings as well as my own are so deeply concerned—however it might become me to follow examples of humility—I shall refrain from a practice perhaps not less laudable\, than it is common—I cannot prevail upon myself to check the current of your sensibility by the cold formalities of an apology for the defects of the Speaker. These can neither be concealed nor extenuated by the affectation of diffidence: Nor even by the genuine concessions of conscious inability. Tis your command\, and the reverence we all bear to the memory of him of whom I am to speak\, that must constitute my excuse and my claim to your indulgence. Did I even possess the powers of Oratory\, I should with reluctance attempt to employ them upon the present occasion. The native brilliancy of the diamond needs not the polish of art: The conspicuous features of preeminent merit need not the coloring pencil of imagination nor the florid decorations of Rhetoric. \nFrom you who knew and loved him\, I fear not the imputation of flattery or enthusiasm when I indulge an expectation that the name of Greene will at once awaken in your minds the images of whatever is noble and estimable in human nature. The fidelity of the portrait I shall draw will therefore have nothing to apprehend from your sentence. But I dare not hope that it will meet with equal justice from all others or that it will intirely escape the cavils of ignorance and the shafts of envy. For high as this great man stood in the estimation of his Country\, the whole extent of his worth was little known. The situations in which he has appeared though such as would have measured the faculties and exhausted the resources of men who might justly challenge the epithet of great\, were yet incompetent to the full display of those various rare and exalted endowments\, with which nature only now and then decorates a favorite as if with intention to astonish mankind. \nAs a man the virtues of Greene are admitted; as a patriot he holds a place in the foremost rank; as a statesman he is praised; as a soldier he is admired. But in the two last characters especially in the last but one his reputation falls far below his desert. It required a longer life and still greater opportunities to have enabled him to exhibit in full day the vast\, I had almost said the enormous powers of his mind. The termination of the American war not too soon for his wishes nor for the welfare of his country\, but too soon for his glory\, put an end to his military carreer. The sudden termination of his life cut him off from those scenes\, which the progress of a new immense and unsettled empire could not fail to open to the complete exertion of that universal and pervading genius\, which qualified him not less for the senate\, than for the field. \nIn forming our estimate\, nevertheless of his character\, we are not left to supposition and conjecture. We are not left to vague indications or uncertain appearances which partiality might varnish or prejudice discolour. We have a succession of deeds as glorious as they are unequivocal to attest his greatness and perpetuate the honors of his name. \nIt is an observation as just as it is common that in those great revolutions which occasionally convulse society human nature never fails to be brought forward in its brighest as well as in its blackest colors: And it has very properly been ranked not among the least of the advantages which compensate for the evils they produce\, that they serve to bring to light talents and virtues which might otherwise have languished in obscurity or only shot forth a few scattered and wandering rays. Nathaniel Greene descended from reputable parents\, but not placed by birth in that elevated rank\, which under a monarchy is the only sure road to those employments\, that give activity and scope to abilities\, must in all probability have contented himself with the humble lot of a private citizen\, or at most with the contracted sphere of an elective office\, in a colonial and dependent government\, scarcely conscious of the resources of his own mind\, had not the violated rights of his country called him to act a part on a more splendid and a more ample theatre. Happily for America he hesitated not to obey the call. The vigor of his genius corresponding with the importance of the prize to be contended for\, overcame the natural moderation of his temper; and though not hurried on by enthusiasm\, but animated by an enlightened sense of the value of free government\, he chearfully resolved to stake his fortune his hopes his life and his honor upon an enterprise of the danger of which he knew the whole magnitude in a cause which was worthy of the toils and of the blood of heroes. \nThe sword having been appealed to at Lexington as the Arbiter of the controversy between Great Britain & America\, Greene shortly after marched at the head of a Regiment to join the American forces at Cambrige; determined to abide the awful decision. \nHe was not long there before the discerning eye of the American Fabius marked him out as the object of his confidence. His abilities intitled him to a preeminent share in the Councils of his Chief. He gained it and he preserved it amidst all the chequered varieties of military vicissitude\, and in defiance of all the intrigues of jealous and aspiring rivals. \nAs long as the measures which conducted us safely through the first most critical stages of the war shall be remembered with approbation— As long as the enterprises of Trenton and Princeton shall be regarded as the dawnings of that bright day\, which afterwards broke forth with such resplendent lustre—As long as the almost magic operations of the remainder of that memorable Winter distinguished not more by these events than by the extraordinary spectacle of a powerful army straitened within narrow limits by the phantom of a military force\, and never permitted to transgress those limits with impunity\, in which skill supplied the plan & means and disposition was the substitute for an army—As long I say as these operations shall continue to be the objects of curiosity and wonder—So long ought the name of Greene to be revered by a Grateful Country. To attribute to him a portion of the praise which is due as well to the formation as to the execution of the plans that affected these important ends\, can be no derogation from that wisdom and magnanimity which knew how to select and embrace councils worthy of being pursued. The Counsels of a Henry were never tarnished by the obligations he acknowleged to a Sully. \nIt would be an unpleasing task and therefore I forbear to lift the veil from off those impotent Councils\, which by a formal vote had decreed an undisturbed passage to an enemy retiring from the fairest fruits of his victories to seek an asylum from impending danger\, disheartened by retreat\, dispirited by desertion\, broken by fatigue\, retiring through woods defiles and morasses in which his discipline was useless\, in the face of an army superior in numbers\, elated by pursuit and ardent to signalise their courage. Tis enough for the honor of Greene to say that he left nothing unessayed to avert and to frustrate so degrading a resolution. And it was happy for America that the man\, whose reputation could not be wounded without wounding the cause of his Country\, had the noble fortitude to rescue himself and the army he commanded from the disgrace with which they were both menaced by the characteristic imbecility of a Council of War. \nUnwilling to do more than merely to glance at a scene in which the meritorious might be involved with the guilty in promiscuous censure here let me drop the Curtain and invite You to accompany me to the Heights of Monmouth. There let me recall to your indignant view the flower of the American infantry flying before an enemy that scarcely dared to pursue—vanquished without a blow—vanquished by their obedience to the command of a leader who meditated their disgrace. Let me contrast with this the conduct of your Greene—the calm intrepidity and unshaken presence of mind with which he seconded the dispositions of his General to arrest the progress of the disorder and retrieve the fortune of the day. Let me recall to your recollection that well timed and happy movement on the left of the enemy by which he so materially contributed to deciding the dubious event of the conflict and turning the hesitating scale of victory. \nFrom the heights of Monmouth I might lead you to the plains of Springfield there to behold the Veteran Knyphaussen at the head of a veteran army baffled and almost beaten by a general without an army—aided or rather embarrassed by small fugitive bodies of volunteer militia\, the mimicry of soldiership! \nBut it would ill become me to detain you in the contemplation of objects diminutive in comparison with those that are to succeed. Hitherto we have seen the illustrious Greene acting in a subordinate capacity the faint glimmerings of his fame absorbed and lost in the superior rays of a Washington. Happy was it for him to have been called to a more explicit station. Had this never been the case\, the future historian perplexed between the panygeric of friends and the satire of enemies might have doubted in what colors to draw his true character. Accident alone saved a Greene from so equivocal a fate; a reflection which might damp the noble ardor of emulation and check the towering flight of conscious merit. \nThe defeat of Campden and the misfortune of Gates opened the carreer of victory and of Glory to Greene. Congress having resolved upon a successor to the former the choice was left to the Commander in Chief and fell upon the latter. In this destination\, honorable in proportion as it was critical\, he acquiesced with the mingled emotions of a great mind—impelled by a sense of duty—allured by the hope or fame—apprised of the danger and precariousness of the situation\, yet confident of its own strength and animated by the magnitude of the object for which it was to be exerted. \nHence forth we are to view him on a more exalted eminence. He is no longer to figure in an ambiguous or secondary light—He is to shine forth the artificer of his own glory—the leader of armies and the deliverer of states! \nTo estimate properly the value of his services it is necessary to recur to the situation of the Southern extremity of the Union at the time he entered upon the command in that Quarter—Georgia and South Carolina subdued and overrun\, the spirit of their people dejected and intimidated\, the flame of resistance scarcely kept alive by the transient gleams of a few expiring embers: North Caroliana distracted by the still recent effects of internal commotion\, dreading the hostility of a considerable part of its own citizens\, the depending for its exertions on the tried valour and patriotism of the rest more than on the energy of a feeble and ill organised government: Virginia debilitated by the excessive efforts of its early zeal and by the dissipation of its revenues and forces in domestic projects incumbered by a numerous body of slaves bound by all the laws of injured humanity to hate their Masters—deficient in order and vigour in its administration—and relying wholly for immediate defence against threatened invasion on the resources of a Country extensive populous and fertile to be put in motion by the same ardent and magnanimous spirit which first lighted up the opposition to Great Britain and set the glorious example of resistance to America. \nIn such a situation what was to be hoped? What was to be hoped from a General without troops without magazines\, without money? A man of less depth of penetration or force of soul than Greene would have recoiled at the prospect; but he far from desponding undertook the arduous task with firmness—with a firmness which was the result of a well informed estimate of a situation perilous but not desperate. He knew how much was to be expected from the efforts of men contending for the rights of man. He knew how much was to be performed by capacity courage and perseverance. \nNot to be disconcerted by the most complicated embarrassments nor the most discouraging prospects\, he began before he entered upon the duties of the field by adjusting the outlines of the plan which was to regulate his future conduct; a plan conceived with so much wisdom and so perfect a judgment of circumstances\, that he never had occasion to depart from it in the progress of his subsequent operations. This alone might suffice to form the eulogium of his genius and to demonstrate that he was an accomplished master in the science of military command! \nHis next care was to endeavour to impress the neighbouring states with a proper sense of their situation in order to induce them with system and effect to furnish the succors of which he stood in need. To urge the collection and accelerate the arrival of these as well as to repel any invasion to which the state might be exposed\, he stationed in Virginia the Baron De Steuben an officer who merited and possessed7 his confidence; and having made these preliminary arrangements he hastened to put himself at the head of the inconsiderable remains of the Southern army\, which he joined at Charlotte on the borders of North Carolina destitute of every thing but courage and an unconquerable attachment to the cause they had espoused. \nTo enter into a particular detail of the operations by which the Southern states were rescued from conquest and desolation\, and the last project of Britain for the subjugation of America frustrated would be to assume the Province of the historian. This neither the occasion\, nor any reasonable claim to your indulgence would justify. A general sketch is all that can with propriety be attempted & shall lim⟨it⟩ my endeavours. \nTo supply a necessitous army by coertion and yet maintain the confidence and good will of the coerced\, this was among the first and not the least of the difficulties to be surmounted. But delicate and difficult as was the task it was neverthess accomplished. Conducted with system moderation and Equity\, even military exactions lost their rigor and Freemen venerated the hand that reluctantly stripped them of their property for their preservation. \nHaving concerted the arrangements requisite to this end\, Greene\, without further delay\, entered upon that busy complicated and extraordinary scene\, which may truly be said to form a phœnomenon in war—a sience which almost continually presents us on the one hand with victories ruinous to the Victors\, on the other with retreats beneficial to the vanquished—which exhibits to our admiration a commander almost constantly obliged to relinquish the field to his adversary\, yet as constantly making acquisitions upon him\, beaten today tomorrow without a blow compelling the conqueror to renounce the very object for which he had conquered and in a manner to fly from the very foe he had subdued. \nToo weak with his collected strength to dispute the field with an enemy superior both in numbers and discipline and urged by the necessity of giving activity to the natural force of the Country by rousing the inhabitants from the state of despondency into which they had sunk with the prospect of succour and protection: Greene divided his little army into two parts one of which he sent under Morgan into the Western extremities of North Carolina & with the other marched to Hicks Creek in. \nThis movement had the desired effect. The appearance of aid magnified by advantages opportunely gained (though unimportant in themselves) rekindled the ardor of patriotic hope in the breasts of many\, who had begun to despair\, and emboldened them to resume their arms and again to repair to the standard of liberty. \nSensible of the importance of counteracting this policy of the American General\, The British Commander hesitated not about the part he should act. Directing his first attention towards the detachment under Morgan and meditating a decisive blow against that corps he committed the execution of the enterprise to Lieutenant Colonel Tarleton at the head of a thousand veterans. Tarleton hitherto not less the favourite of fortune\, than of his chief\, hastened to perform the welcome duty—anticipating an easy triumph over foes inferior both in numbers and discipline—and dreaming not of the reverse which was destined to confound his hopes and even to sully the lustre of his former fame. In the very grasp of victory\, when not to combat but to slaughter\, seemed all that remained to be done\, the forward intrepidity of a Washington seconded by the cool determined bravery of a Howard snatched the trophy from his too eager and too exulting hand—He was discomfited and routed. The greater part of his followers were either killed or taken\, and the remaining few with himself were glad to find safety in flight. Here first the bright dawn of prosperity began to dispel that gloomy cloud which had for some time lowered over the Southern Horison! \nThunderstruck at so unexpected a disaster and ill able to spare so considerable a part of his force\, Cornwallis resolved at every sacrifice to attempt the recovery of his captive troops. The trial of skilful exertion between the generals and of patient fortitude between the troops to which that attempt gave occasion was such as to render it difficult to pronounce to whom the palm of merit ought to be decreed. Abandoning whatever might impede the celerity of his motions Cornwallis began and urged the pursuit of the detachment under Morgan with a rapidity seldom equalled never surpassed. While on the other hand the provident and active Greene spared no exertion to disappoint his enterprising adversary. Anxious for the security of that detachment with their prisoners and desirous of effecting a reunion of his forces\, now rendered necessary by a change of circumstances\, he gave instant orders for the march of the body under his immediate command to Guilford Court House and hastened in person through the country a hundred and fifty miles to join General Morgan whom he came up with on the banks of the Catawba. Thus placed in front of the enemy he was the better able to counteract their immediate design and to direct the cooperation necessary to the intended junction. So well were his measures taken that he succeeded in both objects. The prisoners were carried off in safety and Guilford Court House the destined place of rendezvous received and reunited the two divisions of the American army. \nStill however too weak to keep the field in the face of his enemy; a further retreat became inevitable. A resolution was accordingly taken to retire beyond the Dan. Here a new and not less arduous trial of skill ensued. To get between the American army and Virginia—intercept their supplies and reinforcements—and oblige them to fight on disadvantageous terms: This now became the object of Cornwallis. With this view he directed his march into the upper Country\, where the Rivers were fordable with facility\, flattering himself that the depth of the waters below and the want of boats would oppose insuperable obstacles to the expeditious passage of the American troops. To retard the progress of the British army was of course an indispensable policy on the part of Greene. For this purpose he practiced every expedient\, which a mind full of resource could devise. And so efficacious were the expedients he adopted that surmounting all the impediments in his way he completed his retreat across the Dan without loss of men baggage or stores. \nSuch nevertheless was the energy of the pursuit that in crossing the three principal Rivers the Catawba the Yadken and the Dan the British troops in a manner trod upon the Heels of the American. In the passage of the last of the three\, the van of the enemy’s army reached one shore almost at the very moment that the rear of ours landed on the opposite. Cornwallis upon this occasion\, imitating Charles the 12th of Sweden\, when the celebrated Schulenburgh made good his retreat across the Oder in spite of the utmost efforts of that vigorous and enterprising monarch\, might with propriety have exclaimed—This day at least Greene has conquered me! The art of retreating is perhaps the most difficult in the art of war. To have effected a retreat in the face of so ardent a pursuit\, through so great an extent of country\, through a country offering every obstacle\, affording scarcely any resource\, with troops destitute of every thing who a great part of the way left the vestiges of their march in their own blood\, to have done all this (I say) without loss of any kind may without exaggeration be denominated a master piece of military skill and exertion. \nDisappointed in his first aim Cornwallis now retired from the Dan to Guilford Court House. Having driven the American army out of North Carolina\, he flattered himself that his efforts would at least be productive of the advantage of an accession of force by encouraging the numerous royalists of that state to repair to his standard. Greene not without apprehensions that the hopes of his Competitor in this respect might be realized lost not a moment\, after receiving a small reinforcement from Virginia\, in recrossing the Dan to take post in the vicinity of the British army and interrupt their communication with the Country. Three weeks passed in a constant scene of military manoevre: Cornwallis eagrally striving to bring his antagonist to a action; and Greene adroitly endeavouring to elude it\, yet without renouncing such a position as would enable him to prevent both supplies and reinforcements. On this occasion he played the part of a Turenne and he played it with complete success. The relative position which he took and maintained and the tragical fate of a body of royalists intercepted in their way to the British army distroyed every prospect of that aid which they not without reason had promised themselves from their adherents in North Carolina. \nVirginia in the mean time awakened by the presence of danger exerted herself to reinforce the American army. Greene speedily finding himself in a condition to outnumber his adversary resolved to offer that battle which he had hitherto declined. He considered that in the existing circumstances a defeat must be to the enemy absolute ruin; while to him from his superiority in Cavalry united with other advantages it could be nothing more than a partial misfortune and must be compensated at a price which the enemy could not afford to pay for it. \nThe two armies now equally willing to try the fortune of a battle met and engaged near Guilford Court house. All that could be expected from able disposition towards ensuring success promised a favourable issue to the American arms. But superior discipline carried it against superior numbers and superior skill. Victory decreed the glory of the combat to the Britains; but Heaven confirming the hopes of Greene decreed the advantage of it to the Americans. Greene retired: Cornwallis kept the field. But Greene retired only three miles and Cornwallis in three days abandonning the place where the laurels he had gained were a slender compensation for the loss he had suffered\, withdrew to Wilmington on the sea Coast. This Victory cost him a large proportion of the flower of his army; and it cost him a Webster. \nHere occured the problem on the right solution of which depended the fame of Greene and the fate of the Southern states. There was every probability that the next movement of Cornwallis would be toward a junction with Arnold for the invasion of Virginia. Was the American General to keep pac[e] with his adversary in his Northern Carrier in order to resist his future enterprises? Or was he to return into the field he had lately left to endeavour to regain what had been there lost? The first as the most obvious and in a personal light the least perilous course would have been thought most eligible by an ordinary mind. But the last as the wisest though to his own reputation the most hazard appeared preferable to the comprehensive eye and enterprising spirit of a Greene. \nOn the one hand he concluded justly that Virginia might safely be trusted to her own strength and resources\, and to the aid which if necessary she might derive from the North against all the force which the enemy were then able to employ in that quarter. On the other hand he foresaw that if South Carolina & Georgia should be abandonn[e]d to the situation in which they then were they would quickly have abandonned themselves to dispair would have lost even the spirit of opposition and might have been rendered in several respects subservient to the future progress of their Conqueror. Under these impressions he determined to return into South Carolina to attempt the recovery of that and its neighbouring state. \nThis was one of those strokes that denote superior Genius and constitute the sublime of war. ’Twas Scipio leaving Hannibal in Italy to overcome him at Carthage! \nThe success was answerable to the judicious boldness of the design. The enemy were divested of their acquisitons in South Carolina and Georgia with a rapidity which if not ascertained\, would scarcely be credible. In the short space of two months all their posts in the interior of the Country were reduced. The perseverance courage enterprise and resource displayed by the American General in the course of these events commanded the admiration even of his enemies. In vain was he defeated in one mode of obtaining his object; another was instantly substituted that answered the end. In vain was he repulsed from before a besieged fortress; he immediately found other means of compelling its defenders to relinquish their stronghold. Where force failed\, address and stratagem still won the prize. \nHaving deprived the enemy of all their posts in the interior of the Country and having wasted their forces in a variety of ways\, Greene now thought himself in a condition to aim a decisive blow at the mutilatd remains of the British army and at least to oblige them to take refuge within the lines of charles Town. With this view he collected his forces into one body and marched to give battle to the enemy then stationed at the Springs of Eutaw. A general action took place. Animated obstinate and bloody was the contest. The front line of the American army\, consisting of Militia\, after beginning a brisk attack began to give way. At this critical and inauspicious juncture Greene with that collected intrepidity which never forsook him gave orders to the second line composed of Continentals to advance to the charge with trailed arms. This order enforced by example and executed with matchless composure and constancy could not fail of success. The British Veterans shrunk from the American Bayonet. They were routed and pursued a considerable distance. Numbers of them fell into the hands of their pursuers and the remainder were threatened with a similar fate. When arriving at a Position which with peculiar advantages invited to a fresh stand; they rallied and renewed the action. In vain did the intrepid Washington at the head of the pursuing detachment redouble the efforts of his valour to dislodge them from this new station. He was himself wounded and made a prisoner and his followers in their turn compelled to retire. \nBut though the enemy by an exertion of bravery\, which demands our esteem\, saved themselves from the total ruin which was ready to overwhelm them; they had nevertheless received too severe a blow\, to attempt any longer to maintain a footing in the open country. They accordingly the day following retreated towards Charles town; leaving behind them their wounded and a considerable quantity of arms. Here ended all serious offensive operations in the South! The predatory excursions which intervened between the battle of the Eutaw and the evacuation of Charles Town & Savannah deserve not a place in the catalogue of military achievements. \nBut before we take leave of a scene as honorable as it was advantageous to the American arms it behoves us to stop for a moment to pay the tribute of merited applause to the memory of that Gallant officer who at the head of the Virginia line fell in this memorable conflict. More anxious to the last about his Country than himself\, in the very agonies of departing life he eagerly inquired which of the contending parties prevailed and having learnt that his countrymen were victorious—He like another Epaminondas yielded up his last breath in this noble exclamation. Then do I die contented. Heroic Campbell how enviable was such a death! \nThe evacuation of the two capitals of South Carolina and Georgia intirely restored those states to their own governments and laws. They now hailed the Illustrious Greene as their defender and deliverer. Their gratitude was proportioned to the extent of the benefits resulting from his services nor did it shew itself in words only but was manifested by acts that did honor to their generosity. Consecrated in the affections of their citizens to the remotest posterity\, the fame of Greene will ever find in them a more durable as well as a more flattering Memorial than in the proudest monuments of marble or brass. \nBut where alas is now this consumate General\, this brave soldier\, this discerning statesman\, this steady patriot\, this virtuous citizen\, this amiable man? Why could not so many talents\, so many virtues\, so many bright and useful qualities shield him from a premature grave? Why was he not longer spared to a country which he so dearly loved\, which he was so well able to serve\, which still seems so much to stand in need of his services? Why was he only allowed to assist in laying the foundation and not permitted to aid in rearing the superstructure of American greatness? Such are the inquiries\, which our friendly\, yet short sighted regrets would naturally suggest. But inquiries like these are to be discarded as presumptuous. Tis not for us to scan but to submit to the dispensations of heaven. Let us content ourselves with revering the memory\, imitating the virtues\, and as far as we dare emulating the glory of the man\, whom neither our warmest admiration nor our fondest predilection could protect from the fatal shaft. And as often as we indulge our sorrow in his loss let us ⟨not⟩ fail to mingle the reflection that he has left behind him offspring who are the heirs to the friendship which we bore to the father and who have a claim from many\, if not from all of us to cares not less than parental. \n\n\n“Eulogy on Nathanael Greene\, [4 July 1789]\,” Founders Online\, National Archives\, https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Hamilton/01-05-02-0141. [Original source: The Papers of Alexander Hamilton\, vol. 5\, June 1788 – November 1789\, ed. Harold C. Syrett. New York: Columbia University Press\, 1962\, pp. 345–359.]
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SUMMARY:History of the Week - Greenville's Civil Rights Movement
DESCRIPTION:  \nThis brief\, yet powerful video highlights some of the student activists who led protests here in Greenville County\, as they discuss the hardships they overcame in their stand against inequality. The history of Greenville’s Civil Rights Movement certainly made an impact on our community\, but also effected change across the state and even the nation.  \n\n  \nProtests\, Prayers & Progress: Greenville’s Civil Rights Movement was a 2014 temporary exhibition. It is now a permanent gallery on our second floor and houses several oral histories from local activists. \n  \n  \n\n  \nParents and children\, learn more about local activist Leola Clement Robinson-Simpson at the linked image below. \n  \n\n  \n 
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SUMMARY:Best of the Upstate Nominations
DESCRIPTION:Nominate the Upcountry History Museum and Down the Rabbit Hole: Imagining Alice’s Wonderland NOW through May 14\, 2020.\nOne nomination per email address.\n\nBest Exhibit of Past Year\n\n 
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SUMMARY:History of the Week - The MIS
DESCRIPTION:This film breaks open the hidden history of the US Army’s Military Intelligence Service (MIS) during World War II — a story made possible because of a few aging Japanese American veterans with a little Internet savvy and a lot of determination.\n  \n\n  \nWhen WWII started\, the U.S. Army needed soldiers to who could read and speak Japanese to help fight in the Pacific. An obvious choice: The Nisei. The Nisei were U.S. citizens born in America. The problem? They were locked away in internment camps because they looked like the enemy. But the Army recruited some of them to join the Military Intelligence Service: The MIS. The MIS was kept secret long after the war ended. Now a registry lists those who served in this all but forgotten unit.
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SUMMARY:Read of the Week - WWII
DESCRIPTION:The Battle of Tarawa\nIn the Battle of Tarawa (November 20-23\, 1943) during World War II (1939-45)\, the U.S. began its Central Pacific Campaign against Japan by seizing the heavily fortified\, Japanese-held island of Betio in the Tarawa Atoll in the Gilbert Islands. The 18\,000 U.S. Marines sent to tiny Betio were expected to easily secure it; however\, problems quickly arose. Low tides prevented some U.S. landing crafts from clearing the coral reefs that ringed the island. Japanese coastal guns pounded the snagged vessels and desperate Marines gave up on freeing the boats and instead waded toward shore–hundreds of yards away– through chest-deep water amidst enemy fire. Despite heavy resistance from the 4\,500 Japanese troops dug in on Betio\, the Marines finally took the island after a bloody\, 76-hour battle in which both sides suffered heavy casualties. \nU.S. Pacific Strategy: 1943\nAfter entering World War II in December 1941 following the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor\, Hawaii\, the U.S. began to halt Japan’s aggressive expansion in the Pacific with important battle victories at Midway Island (June 1942) and Guadalcanal (August 1942-February 1943) in the South Pacific. American commanders next set their sights on an island-hopping campaign across the central Pacific. They intended to take the Marshall Islands followed by the Mariana Islands\, then advance on Japan. \nDid you know? In the 76-hour Battle of Tarawa\, U.S. Marines suffered almost as many killed-in-action casualties as U.S. troops suffered in the six-month campaign at Guadalcanal Island.\nThe Gilbert Islands\, a group of 16 atolls near the equator\, were viewed by the U.S. as a stepping stone to the Marshalls and became the first target of the Central Pacific Campaign. In November 1943\, the U.S. launched an offensive code-named Operation Galvanic\, in which the prime target was the tiny island of Betio in the Tarawa Atoll in the Gilbert Islands. (As part of Operation Galvanic\, the U.S. would also send a smaller force to the Gilberts’ Makin Atoll\, some 100 miles north of Tarawa. Compared with the taking of Tarawa\, the U.S. faced far less Japanese resistance at Makin and the Americans secured the atoll by November 23\, 1943.) In late December 1941\, Tarawa\, a coral atoll located some 2\,500 miles southwest of Hawaii\, had been seized by the Japanese\, who heavily fortified Betio\, Tarawa’s largest island. \nBy November 19\, 1943\, American warships had arrived near Tarawa. Naval and air bombardments were planned for the next morning with the goal of weakening Japan’s defenses and clearing the way for 18\,000 U.S. Marines to seize the island. However\, the taking of Tarawa would prove to be more difficult than the Americans had anticipated. \nHeavily Fortified Tarawa\nTarawa was the most fortified atoll America would invade during the Pacific Campaign. Japanese Admiral Keiji Shibasaki (1894-1943)\, confident in his command\, reportedly bragged that the U.S. couldn’t take Tarawa with a million men in 100 years. Measuring around two miles long and a half-mile wide\, the island of Betio was crisscrossed with defenses: 100 pillboxes (dug-in concrete bunkers)\, seawalls\, an extensive trench system for defensive movements and an airstrip were supported by coastal guns\, antiaircraft guns\, heavy and light machine guns and light tanks. Betio’s beaches were naturally ringed with shallow reefs\, which were covered with barbed wire and mines. The Japanese garrison at Betio was defended by at least 4\,500 troops. \nThe U.S. fleet of warships that arrived at the Tarawa Atoll on November 19\, 1943\, included battleships\, aircraft carriers\, cruisers\, destroyers and a huge supply fleet\, all supporting 18\,000 Marines. The attack would be a monumental effort of combined arms coordination in a new war tactic\, dubbed “Atoll War\,” which relied upon heavy pre-invasion bombardment by battleships and carrier planes. Marines were to approach the shore in new amphibious tractor vehicles dubbed amphtracs. These landing crafts\, armed with machine guns and carrying 20 troops each\, were able to crawl over shallow reefs and other barriers. \nFirst Day of Battle: November 20\, 1943\nThe highly coordinated U.S. battle plan at Betio relied on the precise timing of several key elements to succeed\, but almost from the beginning there were problems. Heavy sea turbulence slowed transfer operations of the U.S. Marines to the ship-side landing crafts. A pre-invasion air raid was delayed\, upsetting the timetable for other parts of the assault. Holding for the air raids\, support ships ready to launch massive pre-invasion bombardments lingered in position longer than expected. They were forced to dodge increasingly accurate fire from the island where Japanese defenders were dug in. \nCompounding these problems was a lower-than-anticipated tide level around the island that morning. Most amphtracs in the first assault wave were able to reach the beach as planned\, but nearly all the larger\, heavier landing crafts behind them jammed into coral reefs exposed by the shallow tide. Marines were forced to abandon their landing crafts and wade through chest-deep water amidst enemy fire. Precious gear\, especially radios\, became soaked and useless. Many Marines were hit in the open water\, and those who made it to shore arrived exhausted or wounded\, ill-equipped and unable to communicate with supporting forces. \nMaking matters worse\, the assault path through the lagoon to the shore became congested with disabled landing crafts and bloodied bodies\, which hindered the dispatching of reinforcements. Marines on the beach crawled forward\, inch by inch\, knowing that to stand or even rise slightly made them easy targets. By the end of the first day\, 5\,000 Marines had landed at Betio while at least another 1\,500 had perished in the process. \nThe Battle Rages On: November 21-23\, 1943\nOn the morning of November 21\, the second day of fighting\, unexpectedly low tides continued to plague the U.S. assault. Again\, assault troops had to leave their crafts short of the shore and wade in through enemy fire. In addition to being fired upon from shore\, Marines were also assaulted from their sides and rear by enemy snipers who had entered the lagoon under the cover of night to position themselves on crafts that had been wrecked and abandoned the day before. \nBy noon\, however\, the tide finally began to rise\, and U.S. destroyers were able to maneuver closer to shore to lend accurate supporting fire. Reserve combat teams and support craft transporting tanks and weapons raced to shore\, and the ground assault finally took orderly form. The Marines moved inland\, blasting surviving enemy emplacements with grenades\, demolition packs and flamethrowers. \nOn day three of the battle\, November 22\, the Marines fought on\, destroying several Japanese pillboxes and fortifications. That night\, the last Japanese defenders of Betio launched a furious but futile banzai charge\, or all-out\, suicidal attack. Most Japanese soldiers fought to their death rather than surrender. At morning light on November 23\, the defenders lay in tangled heaps: All but 17 Japanese soldiers had died defending Betio. Seventy-six hours after the invasion began\, Betio was finally declared secure. \nAftermath of Tarawa\nMore than 1\,000 U.S. troops were killed in action and some 2\,000 were wounded in only three days of fighting at Tarawa. Word of the heavy casualties soon reached the U.S. and the public was stunned by the number of American lives lost in taking the tiny island. \nHowever\, according to “The Pacific War” by John Costello\, U.S. commanders learned important lessons from the Battle of Tarawa that would be applied to future atoll wars\, including the need for better reconnaissance\, more precise and sustained pre-landing bombardment\, additional amphibious landing vehicles and improved equipment: Among other advancements\, better-waterproofed radios would be developed. \n  \n\n\n\n  \n  \nBattle of Tarawa\, History.com Editors \n\n\nhttps://www.history.com/topics/world-war-ii/battle-of-tarawa \n\n\n\nNovember 17\, 200
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SUMMARY:Film of the Week - WWI
DESCRIPTION:  \nWEEK 4 \nDuring World War I\, two British soldiers — Lance Cpl. Schofield and Lance Cpl. Blake — receive seemingly impossible orders. In a race against time\, they must cross over into enemy territory to deliver a message that could potentially save 1\,600 of their fellow comrades — including Blake’s own brother. \n\n  \nLearn more on Greenville’s impressive involvement in The Great War with the linked Greenville Journal article below\, written by local historian and researcher Teresa Slack. To dig even deeper\,  visit the Museum (once we reopen our doors) as we have several artifacts (letters\, photographs\, uniforms\, maps and even a massive Doughboy statue) on display in our Camp Upcountry gallery. \n\n  \n  \n\n  \n \n  \nWEEK ONE \nFor the week of April 6\, we encouraged you to learn about the Underground Railroad and the conductor that earned the title of “Moses” by watching the movie\, Harriet. The story of heroic abolitionist\, Harriet Tubman\, is told in this 2019 film\, following her escape from slavery through the dangerous missions she led to liberate hundreds of slaves through the Underground Railroad. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n \n  \nWEEK TWO \nTravel back in time with Coen brothers and the instant classic\, O Brother\, Where Art Thou? Ulysses Everett McGill (George Clooney) is having difficulty adjusting to his hard-labor sentence in Mississippi. He scams his way off the chain gang with simple Delmar (Tim Blake Nelson) and maladjusted Pete (John Turturro)\, then the trio sets out to pursue freedom and the promise of a fortune in buried treasure. With nothing to lose and still in shackles\, their hasty run takes them on an incredible journey of awesome experiences and colorful characters. \n  \n  \n  \n  \n \n  \nWEEK THREE \nWhile there has been a hold on America’s greatest pastime\, we can still enjoy the game through film. Plus\, there’s no crying in baseball!  So\, pick up the remote and check out these classics because it’s impossible to pick just one film. Click on The Sandlot to see all of our picks! \n  \n 
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SUMMARY:Read of the Week - Peanuts
DESCRIPTION:Prepare for another fun season (football season that is) with the Peanuts gang as the Museum is set to host Pigskin Peanuts later this year! Enjoy this quick read on 5 of the most popular Peanuts comic strips.\n  \n\n\nThe 5 Best Peanuts Comic Strips of All Time\nWritten by Elisa Marks \nFor 50 years\, a round-headed boy in a yellow and black shirt and his lovable pet beagle brought smiles to the faces of millions of readers around the globe each day. The world was introduced to Charlie Brown and the Peanuts gang on Oct. 2\, 1950\, when the first comic strip debuted in nine newspapers around the U.S. Peanuts quickly became one of the most popular comic strips of all time and influenced movie\, television\, book and theater spin-offs. Most people can relate in some way to the charismatic Peanuts characters and simple-yet-profound situations in which they find themselves. Here are the 5 most iconic Peanuts comic strips of all time. \n\n\nThe First Strip—Oct. 2\, 1950 \n\nCharlie Brown\, Peanuts’ main character\, is introduced for the first time\, along with the characters of Shermy and Patty. Although he’s not yet wearing his iconic striped shirt\, Charlie Brown’s round head and naive smile are instantly recognizable. This is the first time he is called “Good Ol’ Charlie Brown\,” a nickname that continues to haunt him throughout the strip. \n  \n\n“Here Comes Snoopy”—Oct. 4\, 1950 \n\nSnoopy\, Charlie Brown’s pet beagle\, appeared for the first time as an ownerless dog on the street. It was only later that Snoopy would be identified as Charlie Brown’s loyal sidekick\, although he quickly became one of the most recognizable characters in the comic strip. In Peanuts’ early years\, Snoopy behaved like an average dog\, his human characteristics evolving over time. \n  \n“Football Gag”—Nov. 14\, 1952 \n\nEvery year without fail\, Charlie Brown falls for the football gag when Lucy tells him that she’ll hold a football for him to kick. Although Charlie Brown does not trust Lucy at first\, she persuades him to kick the ball\, then pulls it away at the last second\, just in time for him to fall to the ground. Although Lucy made this prank famous\, Violet (shown above) was actually the first one to pull the ball away from Charlie Brown\, not to spite him\, but in fear that he would kick her hand. \n  \n“Good Grief”—June 6\, 1952  \n\n  \n  \n  \n  \nThe first time Charlie Brown says\, “good grief\,” is in reaction to more of Lucy’s mischief—this time\, it’s her misunderstood attempt to show him a large bug. This becomes Charlie Brown’s catchphrase and part of the worldwide Charlie Brown lexicon. \n  \n“Snoopy Walks”—June 28\, 1957 \n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nSnoopy did not walk on two legs for the first seven years of the comic strip\, instead behaving like a normal dog and walking on all fours. Snoopy’s transition to two legs completes his image as a partly human characters. Snoopy appears to be a dog who often forgets he’s a dog\, instead walking\, talking and interacting with others as if he’s a human. \nAfter 50 years\, Schulz announced his retirement from Peanuts. This final Peanuts comic strip was published the day after Schultz’s death. Major characters and moments from the comic strips past appear in the final comic\, surrounding Schultz’s letter to his readers and giving the comic strip a nostalgic and fitting farewell. \n  \nThis article was written by Elisa Marks on October 13\, 2013\, for the American Profile online newsletter.
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SUMMARY:History of the Week - Battle of Tarawa
DESCRIPTION:  \n\n\nWorld War II: The Battle Of Tarawa is a documentary film directed by Louis Hayward. It used authentic footage taken at the Battle of Tarawa to tell the story of the American servicemen from the time they get the news that they are to participate in the invasion to the final taking of the island and the raising of the Stars and Stripes.\n\n  \nThe November 1943 invasion of the Gilbert Islands was the beginning of the U.S. “island hopping” campaign in the central Pacific during World War II. U.S. commanders determined that amphibious attacks on Japanese-occupied islands was the key to victory. The island of Tarawa was the first target in the Allied campaign. \nAbout 80 nautical miles north of the equator\, Tarawa is the largest atoll of the Gilberts\, a 16-island chain roughly halfway between Hawaii and Papua New Guinea. The Japanese seized the then-British-occupied isle just days after Japan’s December 7\, 1941 attack at Pearl Harbor. Tarawa’s main island Betio\, was the target of the Navy and Marine Corps in November of 1943. \nThe Battle of Tarawa\, November 20-23\, 1943\, was the first major American offensive in the central Pacific. Until then\, Americans hadn’t faced much opposition during amphibious assaults. But Tarawa was different. The initial landings by the 2nd Marine Division met a heavily fortified Japanese force. \nJapanese Rear Admiral Meichi Shibasaki\, said “a million Americans” wouldn’t be able to take Tarawa in “100 years.” Americans took Tarawa in 76 hours. \nFew military battles have matched the concentrated ferocity of the three-day fight between U.S. and Japanese forces in November 1943 for a sandy sliver of land halfway between Pearl Harbor and the Philippines. The U.S. delivery of coordinated land\, sea and air power brought a U.S. force of over 30\,000 men\, a 10-1 advantage over the Japanese. \nTarawa was an essential WWII stepping-stone across the Pacific. In what one combat correspondent called “the toughest battle in Marine Corps history\,” U.S. Marines wrestled it away at a cost of more than 1\,009 men. All but 17 of the 3\,500 dug-in Japanese defenders were killed\, along with 1\,100 Korean slave laborers. The search for the missing bodies of more than 100 U.S. Marines buried on the island continues today. \nThe Upcountry History Museum in partnership with the U.S. Navy History and Heritage Command will commemorate the service and sacrifice of the U.S. Marines at the Battle of Tarawa through a special exhibition featuring original combat art by Kerr Eby who traveled with the Marines in the South Pacific and landed with the invasion force at Tarawa\, photography\, rare film footage and artifacts. \n 
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SUMMARY:Films of the Week - Baseball
DESCRIPTION:Each week we will recommend a new film that either highlights local Upcountry history or one of our changing exhibitions. Explore history from the comfort of your couch and then make a trip out to the Museum once we are able to reopen our doors.\n  \n\n  \nWEEK THREE \nWhile there has been a hold on America’s greatest pastime\, we can still enjoy the game through film. Plus\, there’s no crying in baseball!  So\, pick up the remote and check out these classics.
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SUMMARY:Read of the Week - Coney Island
DESCRIPTION:Coney Island on My Mind: A Brief History of Brooklyn’s Waterfront Playground\nby Suzanne Spellen (aka Montrose Morris)\n  \n\n\n1930s Coney Island postcard. Image via Boston Public Library. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNew York City starts in Coney Island. \nWhen Henry Hudson came to our shores looking for a passage to the East in 1609\, his first landing was at Coney Island. There he found the Canarsie people\, who used the island as a place to fish\, dig for mussels and clams\, and hunt the rabbits called “coneys.” From there he sailed up New York Bay to Manhattan\, and then up the river that now bears his name. \nAfter realizing the river was not the route to China\, he turned around and went home to his employers\, the Dutch East India Company. They came back with farmers\, trappers and merchants to colonize everything along Hudson’s route\, including New Amsterdam\, Breukelin and Albany. \n\nConey Island in 1879. Map by William Kowalski via Library of Congress. \n\nConey Island became a part of Gravesend\, the most remote town that made up Colonial-era Kings County. The island was back in the history books in 1776\, when British troops made their beachhead there before marching to Gowanus to the Battle of Brooklyn\, the first large battle of the Revolutionary War. After the war\, the island retreated back to obscurity\, enjoyed only by those who lived nearby.\nAll that would change in the mid-1800s. \n\nIt’s Always Been About the Beach\nBy the 1840s\, a bridge had been built joining the island to the mainland\, and a hotel called the Coney Island House was established. Many of America’s most famous people stayed there and enjoyed the sand and surf. By 1865\, Peter Tilyou had established his Surf House\, a restaurant\, hotel and bathing emporium. Guests could not only wine\, dine and stay overnight\, they could rent bathing suits and dresses for men and women and frolic in the water. \nBy the beginning of the 1880s\, a wider road reached Coney Island. Olmsted and Vaux’s Ocean Avenue was a clear path to the beach. New eating and bathing establishments were founded\, with beer gardens\, dancing pavilions and gaming rooms\, as well as bath lockers and beachfront access. As the area became more popular\, big-time hoteliers set about making Coney Island the East Coast Riviera. \n\nThe Era of the Grand Hotels\nConey Island\, which includes the Brighton and Manhattan Beach areas\, was ideal for development. Wall Street banker and railroad tycoon August Corbin built the first railroad to bring people to the beach\, the New York and Manhattan Beach Railway. In 1877 he built a huge\, elegant hotel called the Manhattan Beach Hotel. It had 258 elegant rooms\, 700 feet of private ocean frontage\, manicured lawns and an expansive verandah for beachside viewing. It also had several restaurants\, a ballroom and other amenities. It was considered the most elegant hotel in the entire country. It was soon joined by the Brighton Beach Hotel\, built a year later. \n\nBrighton Beach Hotel\, circa 1903\, Detroit Publishing Company via the Library of Congress. \n\nThe Brighton Beach Hotel was bigger\, fancier and swankier than its predecessor. Not to be undone\, Corbin purchased more beachfront land and opened his Oriental Hotel\, by far the most ornate and grand hotel on the beach. While this hotel one-upmanship was going on\, a third developer\, Andrew Culver\, built his own railroad called the Prospect Park and Coney Island Railroad. It is remembered today as the Culver Line\, now remaining as the Franklin Avenue Shuttle. \nIt brought people to his Culver Plaza on Coney Island: a huge pier with a tall iron tower. Visitors could take an elevator to the top for a bird’s eye view. Another Coney Island iron pier was established down the beach to receive visitors arriving by side-wheeler steamships\, which left Manhattan in 20-minute intervals. \nConey Island was soon teeming with people. \n\nThe Heyday of the Hotels and Horses\nPerhaps it would be more precise to say that Coney Island was teeming with well-off adults. All of the amenities were initially built to cater to those with leisure time and money. The three major hotels were exclusively for the rich. Exclusivity was fleeting\, however. Smaller hotels and hotels without beach access soon sprang up for those of lesser means. \nRacing down Ocean Parkway on horseback soon became a sport of its own. It was inevitable that someone finally decided to open a racetrack at the end of the route. The first was established by the owner of the Brighton Beach Hotel. In 1880\, the Coney Island Jockey Club debuted\, led by August Belmont\, the father of the Belmont Stakes race. His club was soon the hangout of rich men like Diamond Jim Brady\, W. K. Vanderbilt and Leonard Jerome\, the grandfather of Winston Churchill. A third racetrack opened in Gravesend in 1886\, making the Coney Island area the race track capital of the country. \n\nA packed Coney Island beach in the early 20th century. Photo by Bain News Service via Library of Congress. \n\nWith all of this came sleaze. Before long\, two seedy red-light districts emerged. Men could watch girlie shows and drink and fight in the many bars\, some of which were barely a plank across two boxes and a table or two. Prostitution\, gambling\, pickpocketing\, drug use and fighting were rife in these districts. Yet only a short distance away\, well-dressed men and women danced to John Philip Sousa’s band and the chime of crystal and silver mixed with laughter\, music and fine food. \nWith easy access\, more people began day tripping. Popular new restaurants such as Feltman’s were serving new\, cheap foods like hot dogs in huge beer gardens. Coney was becoming more and more popular with the middle classes. Entrepreneurs began coming up with new ways to entertain all these people. In 1884\, the first ride\, a proto-roller coaster called the Switchback Railroad\, opened. It was a big hit\, and the beginning of Coney Island’s age of amusement. \nThe Golden Age of the Amusement Parks\nThe first Coney Island amusement park was called Sea Lion Park\, and it opened in 1895. It was established by an extreme sports showman named Paul Boyton. He built the first Shoot the Chutes ride\, soon to be a staple of every Coney Island amusement park. It was a flat bottomed boat that traveled down a steep watery incline with bumps that make the boat bounce riders up in their seats and splash them with water. When the boat got to the bottom\, it was steered to a track that hauled the boat to the top to repeat the trip. It was a huge success. \nBoyton’s park also featured the first looped roller coaster. Scarily\, there were no harnesses or bar keeping riders inside when it went upside down. Centrifugal force\, baby\, that was it. In spite of these successes\, Sea Lion Park closed in 1902. \n\nThe Old Mill at Luna Park\, circa 1905. Photo via Library of Congress. \nGeorge Tilyou\, son of the operators of the Surf Hotel and the Surf Theater\, had Coney Island in his blood. After attending the Chicago World’s Exhibition on his honeymoon in 1893\, he fell in love with the first Ferris wheel. He leased some Coney Island land\, bought a smaller Ferris wheel\, lied and called it the largest one in the world\, and opened for business. It was lit by thousands of incandescent lights and was a sellout. He followed that up by leasing a large piece of land around the wheel\, creating Coney Island’s first large gated amusement park\, Steeplechase Park. \n\nSteeplechase was named for his iconic horse racing ride. Patrons rode metal horses that traveled along a long track that traversed the park\, complete with dips and hills. Tilyou charged 25 cents to enter. Guests could ride all the rides and visit all the attractions for that admission. As it grew\, he added more and more attractions. \nConey Island was not a playland for children. Some of the amusements eventually added children’s attractions like pony rides and carousels\, but this was playland for grown-ups. People got dressed up to go there and spend a few hours away from the hot city streets. They enjoyed all of the attractions\, including those that were slightly naughty. Tilyou’s rides blew air up women’s skirts\, pressed strangers together\, or featured other amusements that were deemed risqué to demure\, middle-class ladies of all ages. \n\nA bird’s eye view of Luna Park\, Coney Island. Vintage postcard. Collection of Susan De Vries. \n\nSteeplechase Park’s logo was a huge smiling face called the “Tillie.” He promised fun\, some of it naughty\, but harmless\, as well as thrills and chills. The park was soon joined by two other large parks\, as well as countless small operators who had one or two rides\, or games of chance. \nThe second park was Luna Park. It opened in 1903 on the site of the old Sea Lion Park. Its operators kept the old park’s Shoot the Chutes and added other attractions. Wildly imaginative Middle Eastern-inspired architecture gave the park glowing minarets and towers\, all lit with electric lights. Guest could wander through the city of Venice\, go on a submarine ride or ride to the moon — the ride that gave the park its name. \n\nSurf Avenue\, circa 1900-1906. Photo via Library of Congress. \n\nDreamland was the third park\, owned by Brooklyn real estate developer William Reynolds. It was touted as more highbrow and uplifting than the other two\, highlighted by a ride called “Creation” that showed the beginning of the universe and Judgement Day. He too had a Shoot the Chutes ride\, a tall electrically lit observation tower\, as well as many other attractions and architecture from around the world. It opened with great acclaim in 1904. \nBy the time Dreamland opened\, the rich people had left Coney Island for more exclusivity out on Long Island and elsewhere. The horse racing tracks had closed\, and the huge resort hotels either shuttered or burned down. In the early 20th century\, the island was connected to the mainland with infill. Coney Island was now the popular everyman’s playland\, available for the five cent price of a subway ticket. \nFire was a huge hazard in Coney Island. Both of the area’s red-light districts burned down. Steeplechase Park burned down in 1907. He immediately rebuilt. Dreamland burned down in a horrific conflagration in 1911. William Reynolds charged people admission to look at the ruins. Luna Park survived through a series of different owners until 1946. when it too burned down. The owners of the day also charged admission to view the damage. \n\nThe Dreamland fire of 1911. Photo via Library of Congress. \nThis was almost the end of Coney Island. The area was rundown and tawdry. Its final glory days were immortalized as a World War II working class heaven for couples who would soon see the men off to war after one last ride on the Cyclone\, the Parachute Drop or a walk along the famous boardwalk. Most of the attractions – the dancehalls\, the rides\, the gaming midways and the swimming pools — had either closed or were about to. A few carny families had owned the rides\, the other amusements and the hotels. They were all dying out\, and the grandchildren of the founders were not interested in the businesses. \n\nNew owners were only in it for the money\, and did little to improve anything or even keep the equipment in good order. By the beginning of the 1960s\, there wasn’t much left. Coney Island became known more for gang fights\, general hooliganism and crime. Robert Moses wanted to tear everything down to build high rise apartment projects. \nThe land that once held Steeplechase Park was sold to Fred Trump\, who flipped it to the city for $4 million. They eventually built KeySpan Park ballfield\, now MCU Park\, also home to the Brooklyn Wall of Remembrance. Dreamland’s acres now house the New York Aquarium. The original Luna Park land is now a high-rise apartment complex still called Luna Park. \n\nThe boardwalk in 2018. Photo by Susan De Vries. \nAstroland\, an amusement park established in 1962 as a futuristic theme park\, was the last of the Coney Island parks. It was home to the Cyclone\, Coney Island’s famous roller coaster\, a ride that had outlived just about everything. In 2006\, the owner sold the amusement park to Thor Equities\, but negotiated to keep the park going. It lasted only another two years. \n\nThe park was sold to Zampara/Central Amusement International\, which built the new Luna Park on the site. The park has done well\, coinciding with a new outside interest in all things Brooklyn. The city announced an expansion of the new Luna Park this last year. Soon new rides will amuse adults and children alike. \nThe Ford Amphitheater opened on the boardwalk in 2016\, followed a year later by the restored and landmarked Childs Restaurant. The boardwalk was landmarked in 2018. Coney Island is once more part of “Brooklyn cool.” \n\nThe restored Childs Restaurant in 2017. Photo by Susan De Vries. \n\nConey Island has seen the Canarsie hunting rabbits\, Henry Hudson\, wealthy day-trippers and resort-goers\, as well as the screaming hordes of people on the rides or baking in the sun on the People’s Riviera. Whether walking along the boardwalk or grabbing a hot dog dripping with mustard and sauerkraut at Nathan’s Famous\, these are the sounds and smells of the ocean\, the beach and the shore. \nThere are few places in Brooklyn as storied as Coney Island. You can’t call yourself a Brooklynite if you have never been there. Go. Before it becomes Vegas on the Atlantic\, a gated community or something other than a place of history\, memories and the eternal sea. \n\n  \nWritten by  Suzanne Spellen (aka Montrose Morris) on July 15\, 2019\, for Brownstoner Newsletter of Brooklyn\, New York. \n  \n\n  \nWeek One: Women’s Suffrage Movement\n\n  \n\n\n\nWeek Two: South Carolina History & Harriet Tubman
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SUMMARY:Film of the Week - Coen Brothers
DESCRIPTION:Each week we will recommend a new film that either highlights local\, Upcountry history or one of our changing exhibitions. Explore history from the comfort of your couch and then make a trip out to the Museum once we are able to reopen our doors.\n  \n\n  \nWEEK TWO \nTravel back in time with Coen brothers and the instant classic\, O Brother\, Where Art Thou? Ulysses Everett McGill (George Clooney) is having difficulty adjusting to his hard-labor sentence in Mississippi. He scams his way off the chain gang with simple Delmar (Tim Blake Nelson) and maladjusted Pete (John Turturro)\, then the trio sets out to pursue freedom and the promise of a fortune in buried treasure. With nothing to lose and still in shackles\, their hasty run takes them on an incredible journey of awesome experiences and colorful characters. \n\n  \nWhat’s your favorite quote?\n“Them sirens loved him up and turned him into a horny toad!” \n“R-U-N-N-O-F-T” \n“He’s a suitor.” \n“Mama says he’s bona fide.” \n“Pete\, I know we’re kin\, but they got this Depression on.” \n“Is you is or is you ain’t my constituents?” \n  \n  \nRent and stream “O Brother\, Where Art Thou?” using: \n\n  \n  \n  \n\n  \nWeek One Film
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SUMMARY:History of the Week - Pepsi Cola
DESCRIPTION:The Pepsi-Cola Story\n  \nIf you have visited the Upcountry History Museum and explored our Pepsi Lounge\, then you have probably heard clips of this video playing. Now you can enjoy the short documentary\, narrated by Walter Cronkite\, in it’s entirety and from the comfort of your home. \n\n  \n\n 
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SUMMARY:Read of the Week - Harriet Tubman
DESCRIPTION:“I had reasoned this out in my mind\, there was one of two things I had a right to\, liberty or death; if I could not have one\, I would have the other.”\n– Harriet Tubman\n  \n\n  \nAfter the Underground Railroad\, Harriet Tubman Led a Brazen Civil War Raid\nTubman applied intelligence she learned as an Underground Railroad conductor to lead the Combahee Ferry Raid that freed more than 700 from slavery.\n\n\nALEXIS CLARK\n\nThey called her “Moses” for leading enslaved people in the South to freedom up North. But Harriet Tubman fought the institution of slavery well beyond her role as a conductor for the Underground Railroad. As a soldier and spy for the Union Army during the Civil War\, Tubman became the first woman to lead an armed military operation in the United States in what is known as the Combahee Ferry Raid. \nBy January 1\, 1863\, when the Emancipation Proclamation went into effect\, Tubman had been in South Carolina as a volunteer for the Union Army. With her family behind in Auburn\, New York\, and having established herself as a prominent abolitionist in Boston circles\, Tubman\, at the request of Massachusetts Governor John Andrew\, had gone to Hilton Head\, South Carolina\, which had fallen to the Union Army early in the war. \n\n \nHulton Archive/Getty Images \n\nTubman Becomes Military Leader\n\n\n\nFor months\, Tubman worked as a laundress\, opening a wash house\, and serving as a nurse\, until she was given orders to form a spy ring. Tubman had proven herself invaluable at gathering clandestine information\, forming allies and avoiding capture\, as she led the Underground Railroad. In her new role\, Tubman assumed leadership of a secret military mission in South Carolina’s low country. \n“First and foremost\, her priorities would be to defeat and destroy the system of slavery and in doing so\, to definitely defeat the Confederacy\,” said Brandi Brimmer\, a history professor at Spelman College and slavery historian. \n\n\n\nTubman partnered with Colonel James Montgomery\, an abolitionist who commanded the Second South Carolina Volunteers\, a black regiment. Together\, the two planned a raid along the Combahee River\, to rescue slaves\, recruit freed men into the Union Army and obliterate some of the wealthiest rice plantations in the region. \nMontgomery had around 300 men\, including 50 from a Rhode Island Regiment and Tubman rounded up eight scouts\, who helped her map the area and send word to the slaves when the raid would take place. \n“She was fearless and she was courageous\,” said Kate Clifford Larson\, historian and author of Bound for the Promised Land: Harriet Tubman\, Portrait of an American Hero. “She had a sensibility. She could get black people to trust her and the Union officers knew that they were not trusted by the local people.” \n\nOvernight Raids Launch From the River\nThe night of June 1\, 1863\, Tubman and Montgomery\, on a federal ship the John Adams\, led two other gunboats\, the Sentinel and Harriet A. Weed\, out of the St. Helena Sound towards the Combahee River. En route\, the Sentinel ran aground\, causing troops from that ship to transfer to the other two boats. \nAs explained in Catherine Clinton’s book\, Harriet Tubman: The Road to Freedom\, Tubman\, who was illiterate\, couldn’t write down any intelligence she gathered. Instead\, she committed everything to memory\, guiding the ships towards strategic points near the shore where fleeing slaves were waiting and Confederate property could be destroyed\, all while leading the steamers away from known torpedoes. \n“They needed to take gunboats up the river\,” said Clinton. “They could have been blown up if they hadn’t had her intelligence.” \nAround 2:30 a.m. on June 2\, the John Adams and the Harriet A. Weed split up along the river to conduct different raids. Tubman led 150 men on the John Adams toward the fugitives. Tubman\, later commenting on the raid\, said once the signal was given\, she saw slaves running everywhere\, with women carrying babies\, crying children\, squealing pigs\, chickens and pots of rice. Rebels tried chasing down the slaves\, firing their guns on them. One girl was reportedly killed. \nAs the escapees ran to the shore\, black troops in rowboats transported them to the ships\, but chaos ensued in the process. Tubman\, who didn’t speak the region’s Gullah dialect\, reportedly went on deck and sang a popular song from the abolitionist movement that calmed the group down. \nMore than 700 escaped slavery and made it onto the gunboats. Troops also disembarked near Field’s Point\, torching plantations\, fields\, mills\, warehouses and mansions\, causing a humiliating defeat for the Confederacy\, including the loss of a pontoon bridge shot to pieces by the gunboats. \nTubman Was Recognized a Hero (But Not Paid)\nLibrary of Congress \n\nThe ships docked in Beaufort\, South Carolina\, where a reporter from the Wisconsin State Journal heard what had happened on the Combahee River. He wrote a story without a byline about the “She-Moses” but never mentioned Tubman’s name. He wrote that Montgomery’s “gallant band of 300 soldiers under the guidance of a black woman\, dashed into the enemies’ country\, struck a bold and effective blow\, destroying millions of dollars worth of commissary store\, cotton and lordly dwellings\, and striking terror to the heart of the rebeldom brought off bear 800 slaves and thousands of dollars worth of property\, without losing a man or receiving a scratch.” \nBut Tubman’s anonymity came to an end in July 1863 when Franklin Sanborn\, the editor of Boston’s Commonwealth newspaper\, picked up the story and named Harriet Tubman\, a friend of his\, as the heroine. \nDespite the mission’s success\, including the recruitment of at least 100 freedmen into the Union Army\, Tubman was not compensated for her efforts on the Combahee Ferry Raid. She had petitioned the government several times to be paid for her duties as a soldier. “She was denied because she was a woman\,” says Larson. \n“By the time we get to the Emancipation Proclamation\, we have Lincoln setting out concrete spaces for black men and their recognition in military service\,” said Brimmer. “But there’s not really a vision for the work of women who function in the military bearing arms\, particularly black women.” \nTubman would eventually get a pension\, but only as the widow of a black Union soldier she married after the war\, not for her courageous service as a soldier. \n\n\n\n\n\nBY\nALEXIS CLARK \n\n\nAlexis Clark is the author of Enemies in Love: A German POW\, A Black Nurse\, and an Unlikely Romance\, and an adjunct professor at Columbia Journalism School. Previously an editor at Town & Country\, she has written for The New York Times\, Smithsonian\, NBC News Digital\, and other publications. \n  \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n Week One – Women’s Suffrage Movement
URL:https://upcountryhistory.org/event/read-of-the-week-2/
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions,Highlight
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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200416T235000
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SUMMARY:Story Times at Home
DESCRIPTION:  \n  \n  \n\n\n  \nVIDEO STORY TIMES FOR YOUR LITTLE ONES…\n\n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n\n  \n  \nVIDEO STORY TIMES FOR CHILDREN AGES 6 & UP…\n  \n   \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nONLINE BOOKS FOR CHILDREN AGES 9 & UP…\n 
URL:https://upcountryhistory.org/event/story-times-from-home/
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions,Highlight
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200407T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200407T170000
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CREATED:20200330T175649Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200430T014951Z
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SUMMARY:Kids Book Club @ Home
DESCRIPTION:With the Museum being closed\, we are sharing our activity for the March book club program. This activity can be done at home and we encourage all of the family to join the fun. Enjoy and share your experiences on social media by using #UpcountryMuseum.\n\n  \nApril 2020 – The Tale of Despereaux\nBrave\, curious\, imaginative\, and chivalrous…Despereaux was everything a mouse should not be.  \n\nFollow the link below for several at-home family activities: \n\nUHM Kids Book Club at Home – April 14 \n  \n  \n\n\nMarch 2020 – Sweet Clara and the Freedom Quilt\nClick on the book image below to hear the story! \nNow follow the link below for some good ol’ fashioned family fun: \nUHM Kids Book Club at Home – March \n  \n\n 
URL:https://upcountryhistory.org/event/uhm-kids-book-club-at-home/
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions,Highlight
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200305T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20210313T170000
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SUMMARY:Guaranteeing Her Right…The 19th Amendment\, Women and the Right to Vote
DESCRIPTION:The campaign for women’s voting rights lasted more than seven decades. Considered the largest reform movement in United States history\, its participants believed that securing the vote was essential to achieving women’s economic\, social. and political equality. Culminating 100 years ago in the Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution. the fight for women’s suffrage was not for the fainthearted. Determined women organized\, lobbied\, paraded\, petitioned\, lectured\, and picketed for years. Suffragists were ridiculed\, patronized\, and dismissed by opponents. yet they persisted and would not be denied. \n\nAlthough few of the women who began the suffrage campaign before the Civil War lived long enough to witness its final victory in August 1920\, their work was carried on by their daughters. granddaughters. and other women whom they had inspired\, nurtured\, and taught. Their collective story is one of courage\, perseverance\, and hope that continues to inspire women today. \nFrom the outset. organizers knew the journey would be long and that the battle for the vote would require tenacity\, resourcefulness and steadfastness. That resourcefulness was apparent in the efforts of South Carolina women like Anita Pollitzer. Susan Pringle Frost. Charlotta Rollins. Emma Anderson Dunovant. Eulalie Chaffee Salley and numerous others. such as Greenville’s Miss Jim Perry\, Eudora Ramsey and Mary Camilla Judson. \nIn honor of this monumental anniversary\, the Upcountry History Museum will present Guaranteeing Her Right… The 19th Amendment\, Women and the Right to Vote\, an exhibition that celebrates the centennial of women’s suffrage by exploring the stories of women’s struggles to achieve full citizenship. The project includes photographs. drawings\, illustrations. and artifacts that visualize the complex political messages conveyed by national and local suffragists. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nSponsored by: Charles and Tracy Hardaway and WSPA News Channel 7
URL:https://upcountryhistory.org/event/guaranteeing-her-rightthe-19th-amendment-women-and-the-right-to-vote/
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions,Highlight
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20200215T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200809T170000
DTSTAMP:20200526T134147Z
CREATED:20200128T203315Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20200526T134147Z
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SUMMARY:Through Darkness to Light: Photographs Along the Underground Railroad
DESCRIPTION:They left in the middle of the night – often carrying little more than the knowledge to follow the North Star. In the decades prior to the Civil War in 1865\, an estimated 100\,000 slaves became passengers on the Underground Railroad\, a journey of untold hardship\, in search of freedom. \nUnder the cover of darkness\, “fugitives” traveled roughly 20 miles each night traversing rugged terrain while enduring all the hardships that Mother Nature could bring to bear. Occasionally they were guided from one secret\, safe location to the next by an ever-changing\, clandestine group known as the Underground Railroad. Whether they were slaves trying to escape or free blacks and whites trying to help\, both sides risked everything for the cause of freedom. \nPhotographer Jeanine Michna-Bales has spent more than a decade meticulously researching “fugitive” slaves and the ways they escaped to freedom. While the unnumbered routes of the Underground Railroad encompassed countless square miles\, the path Michna-Bales documented encompasses 2\,000 miles and is based off of actual sites\, cities\, and places that freedom-seekers passed through during their journey. \nThe national traveling exhibition\, developed by ExhibitsUSA and The Metropolitan Museum of Art\, New York\, includes over 50 images and research tracing the collective steps of men\, women and children in their steps toward liberation. Unforgettable color photographs\, ephemera\, and narratives featured in the exhibition share the story of the Underground Railroad. \nConsidered to be the first Civil Rights movement in the United States\, the Underground Railroad included people of different races\, genders\, classes\, faiths\, and regions working together to covertly guide the enslaved from one safe location to the next\, until they reached freedom. \nSponsored by: Becky & Bobby Hartness\, Men of Color National Summit at Clemson University\, North Greenville University\, WSPA 7News\, and Greenville Technical College
URL:https://upcountryhistory.org/event/through-darkness-to-light-photographs-along-the-underground-railroad/
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions,Highlight
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20191102T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200202T170000
DTSTAMP:20191127T153218Z
CREATED:20191107T175246Z
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SUMMARY:The Night Before Christmas: The Art of Charles Santore
DESCRIPTION:No other text has been illustrated by picture-book artists as much as “A Visit From Saint Nicholas” or “The Night Before Christmas\,” attributed to theologian Clement Clarke Moore. \nThe narrative poem\, first published in the Troy (New York) Sentinel on December 23\, 1823\, has been reprinted in everything from almanacs to advertisements; it’s been dramatized\, satirized\, parodied\, and set to music. It’s been published in newspapers\, recited on stage\, retold on film\, read over the radio\, performed on television and posted on the Internet. And most importantly it is a holiday tradition\, a classic that has been read for over 196 years to countless children\, poring over the books illustrations. \nThe poem was one of the first American children’s books to be illustrated in color and the verses are some of the most recognized in the English language. It has inspired- and is still inspiring – generations of artists. \nIn keeping with its tradition of presenting an annual holiday exhibition\, the Upcountry History Museum will transport visitors back in time through an exhibit that features the watercolor paintings from “The Night Before Christmas\,” illustrated by the renowned Charles Santore (born 1935). Santore’s beautiful images\, filled with wreaths\, stockings\, flying reindeer\, a moonlit night\, and\, of course\, Saint Nick\, bring to life the warmth and spirit of this holiday classic. \nSantore began his career as a freelance illustrator working for advertising agencies and magazines. Since 1986\, he has worked as a children’s book illustrator\, becoming one of the most respected and acclaimed illustrators of today. His work is in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art\, the Brandywine River Museum of Art\, the Free Library of Philadelphia\, and the Woodmere Art Museum. \nIn addition to Santore’s 24 pieces of original artwork\, visitors will step into the pages of the holiday classic through full-size wall murals\, video interactives\, and hands-on activities; along with nineteenth century children’s toys\, holiday trimmings\, seasonal greetings\, and an extraordinary dollhouse from the Museum’s permanent collection. \nDesigned for visitors of all ages\, the 1\,000 square foot exhibition\, organized in partnership with illustrator Charles Santore\, will appeal to nostalgia-seeking visitors as well as new generations. \nTHE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS IS INCLUDED WITH YOUR GENERAL ADMISSION. \nADMISSION COSTS:\n$10 – Adults\n$9 – Senior Adults & College Students with ID\n$8 – Kids & Teens (ages 4-18)\nFREE to children ages 3 and under.
URL:https://upcountryhistory.org/event/the-night-before-christmas-the-art-of-charles-santore/
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190921T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200112T170000
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SUMMARY:Under the Arctic: Digging into Permafrost
DESCRIPTION:The Upcountry History Museum will invite visitors to explore real Ice Age fossils\, ancient ice cores\, climate change\, and engineering challenges posed by thawing permafrost when it hosts Under the Arctic\, Digging Into Permafrost. \nOrganized by the Oregon Museum of Science & Industry (OMSI)\, in partnership with the University of Alaska’s Geophysical Institute and a Native Alaskan advisory team\, the 2\,000 square foot immersive STEM (Science\, Technology\, Engineering\, and Math) exhibition transports visitors to the Arctic using the sights and smells of the world’s only permafrost research tunnel. \nSixteen miles north of Fairbanks\, Alaska\, behind the door of a shed on a frozen hillside\, is one of the world’s most remarkable research facilities. The underground Permafrost Tunnel Research Facility offers a unique opportunity to view and study 40\,000-year-old frozen soil\, along with the ice\, plant material\, bacteria\, fossils\, and bones frozen within it. Dug by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in the 1960s to study permafrost excavation\, the tunnel now supports a wide and growing body of scientific research related to numerous topics\, among them: climate change. \nFew people have the opportunity to enter the Permafrost Tunnel Research Facility\, but thanks to the Under the Arctic exhibition\, visitors will experience first-hand what it is like to journey underground\, back to the Pleistocene. \nDesigned for families\, life-long learners\, and school groups\, Under the Arctic has a special emphasis on reaching audiences ages 9-14\, as they step into the shoes of climate science researchers. The exhibition’s research stations introduce students to diverse STEM-based careers. \nIn addition to the 30-foot long walk-through replica of the tunnel\, visitors join the research team to learn from hands-on experiments\, interactive models\, and exciting games that explore the causes and consequences of climate change. \nThrough engaging experiences\, visitors of all ages explore how the dramatic permafrost landscape provides clues to our past\, present\, and future\, as well as consider realistic ways they can positively impact the environment and establish professional careers within the STEM field. \nSponsored by:  Jolley Foundation\, International Paper\, Fluor\, GE\, WSPA News Channel 7\, and HDR
URL:https://upcountryhistory.org/event/under-the-arctic-digging-into-permafrost/
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions,Highlight
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190831T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200216T170000
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CREATED:20191003T204450Z
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SUMMARY:Imprinting the West: Manifest Destiny\, Real and Imagined
DESCRIPTION:Throughout the nineteenth century as Americans pushed west toward the Pacific\, they were fascinated by westward expansion in North America. Printed imagery – lithographs and engravings – played an important\nrole in the dissemination of knowledge and understanding about the West and its inhabitants. \nImprinting the West: Manifest Destiny\, Real and Imagined\, a special exhibition organized by ExhibitsUSA and the Metropolitan Museum of Art\, explores the potent imagery of these popular prints\, produced in the decades following President Thomas Jefferson’s acquisition of 828\,000 square miles from Napoleon\, King of France in 1803. Known as the Louisiana Purchase it set the stage for great exploration and discovery\,\nmigration and settlement\, in addition to struggle and conflict. \nWestern expansion was one of the most transformational elements in American life throughout the 19th century. Convinced that God wanted the country to extend to the Pacific coast – an idea called “Manifest Destiny” – many American citizens\, including painters and printmakers\, moved west. \nThe Imprinting the West exhibition includes over 48 works of art that examine westward expansion. Prints and engravings created by artists\, including George Catlin\, Frederic Remington\, John J. Audubon\, Albert Bierstadt and many more\, shaped perceptions of the West and its Native American inhabitants\, some of whom were dislocated by the Indian Removal Act of 1830. Several artists documented the so-called “vanishing race\,” while others portrayed the western landscape. Much of this imagery was created with an east coast or international audience in mind\, and it both drew and promoted fantasies about Native Americans and the west as much as it documented reality. \nWhether real or imagined\, these images and the exhibition examine the birth of the West as an idea in American popular culture. \nSponsored by: Dr. Jeffrey and Mrs. Mary Lawson and Mr. Hayne and Mrs. Anna Kate Hipp and WSPA News Channel 7
URL:https://upcountryhistory.org/event/imprinting-the-west-manifest-destiny-real-and-imagined/
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions,Highlight
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190706T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20200105T170000
DTSTAMP:20190622T203316Z
CREATED:20190521T195707Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190622T203316Z
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SUMMARY:Love a Vet: Honoring Our Military Veterans
DESCRIPTION:Since its inception in 1983\, the Upcountry History Museum has committed to honoring the sacrifices\, courage\,\nand patriotism of the men and women who have worn a military uniform. Dedicated to collecting\, preserving\,\nand disseminating the legacy and dignity of all United States military veterans\, the museum shares the stories of America’s conflicts. \nThe Museum annually honors those who served and their families through military exhibitions\, recording and\npreserving local veteran’s oral histories\, participating in the national Blue Star Museum program\, delivering\nmilitary history lectures\, and hosting Veteran’s Day and Armed Forces Day events. \nThe Museum\, in partnership with the Hunterdon Healthcare Foundation and the 52 Reasons to Love A Vet\ncharitable organization\, will host the national traveling exhibition Love A Vet: Honoring Our Veterans\, July 6\,\n2019 – January 5\, 2020. \nThrough art and artifacts the Love A Vet exhibition\, and its related programming\, will encourage the public to\nappreciate the sacrifices made by veterans and their families and educate on the challenging issues that\nveterans face upon their re-entry into civilian life. \nThe exhibit features 40 paintings\, drawings\, and prints by a diverse group of contemporary illustrators; many of\nwhom have been involved in the military themselves. Nationally recognized artists represented in the exhibit\ninclude Gail Anderson\, art director for Rolling Stone magazine; Steve Brodner\, political cartoonist; and Mike\nWimmer\, illustrator for Disney’s Lion King. Upstate artist Tina LeMay\, is featured in the exhibition. A Clemson\nUniversity Alum and Creative Director for Student Affairs at Clemson University\, LeMay’s contribution to the\nexhibition is dedicated to the sacrifices made by military personnel and their families. \nThe Love A Vet project was founded by Ella Rue\, an award-winning graphic designer and artist\, whose son is a\nveteran of both the Iraq and Afghan wars. Ms. Rue established the 52 Reasons to Love a Vet nonprofit and its\ncompanion traveling exhibition to generate awareness and to help veterans further their education and assist\nwith medical\, dental\, or mental health resources following their return home. \nA primary goal of the project is to raise an additional $10\,000 specifically for underwriting museum admission\nfor veterans\, active duty military personnel and their families during the exhibit’s 6-month display.
URL:https://upcountryhistory.org/event/love-a-vet-honoring-our-military-veterans/
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190615T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191020T170000
DTSTAMP:20190703T190007Z
CREATED:20190528T164520Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190703T190007Z
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SUMMARY:Down the Rabbit Hole: Imagining Alice's Wonderland
DESCRIPTION:The Upcountry History Museum in partnership with Walt Disney Archives\, Smithsonian American Art Museum\, Walt Disney Family Museum\, Charles M. Schulz Museum\, Daura Gallery at Lynchburg College\, and renowned artist Charles Santore\, will invite visitors to fall down the rabbit hole to discover an immersive enchanted world that draws together a remarkable collection of original Alice In Wonderland materials. \nInspired by real events and a real child\, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland was dreamt up on a summer’s day in 1862\, by Charles Ludwidge Dodgson\, who later assumed the pen name Lewis Carroll. It is said that Carroll’s Alice books were the origin of all later children’s literature. In Alice\, for the first time\, readers found a realistic child taking part in a story whose intention was entirely fun. Both children and adults loved them at once\, and 157 years’ later have never stopped doing so. It was not only Lewis Carroll’s words that captured readers’ imaginations; John Tenniel’s illustrations brought the story to life and remain in our collective consciousness to this day. Tenniel’s artwork provided the original image of Alice along with the amazing characters that she met in Wonderland. \nDown the Rabbit Hole: Imagining Alice’s Wonderland\, a 1\,200 square foot exhibition\, organized by the Upcountry History Museum\, will explore the kaleidoscope of artistic re-imaginings of Alice from the 1860s to the present. Original Alice paintings\, drawings\, illustrations\, set designs\, puppets\, film costumes and props will reflect diverse artistic interpretations. From Tenniel’s original Victorian illustrations to costumes\, props and sets from Walt Disney Pictures Academy Award winning live action film Alice in Wonderland\, the exhibition will examine multiple perspectives of one of literature’s greatest paradoxes that continues to inspire imagination\, creativity\, and discussion. Rich with visual interpretation\, the exhibit will take visitors on Alice’s journey through the cultural\, technological and societal shifts that have compelled artists\, filmmakers and fans to return to the Alice tales again and again. \nSponsored by: WSPA News Channel 7 \n 
URL:https://upcountryhistory.org/event/down-the-rabbit-hole-imagining-alices-wonderland/
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20190525T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20190908T170000
DTSTAMP:20190703T184538Z
CREATED:20190505T200915Z
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SUMMARY:Thomas & Friends™: Explore the Rails!
DESCRIPTION:What began in a young boy’s imagination in 1911\, evolved into a bedtime story\, a long running book series\, one of the most successful children’s television programs of all time\, and an international traveling exhibition. Today Thomas & Friends reaches 110 million households across the United States and an even larger audience through internet streaming\, DVDs\, and toys. \nThomas & Friends: Explore the Rails\, an interactive\, bi-lingual (English and Spanish) exhibition featuring the favorite engines\, characters\, and destinations of this beloved children’s classic\, will delight Upstate fans when it makes a stop at the Upcountry History Museum\, May 25 – September 8\, 2019. \nDesigned by HIT Entertainment\, a subsidiary of Mattel\, Inc. Fisher Price\, the 1500 square foot immersive exhibit combines hands-on learning with important concepts in science\, technology\, engineering\, art and math (STEAM)\, with an emphasis on developing 21st century skills. These ideas are woven and layered throughout the exhibit\, creating an experience that speaks to a diversity of interests\, age groups and learning styles. \nVisitors will find themselves on the Island of Sodor surrounded by iconic locations\, including Knapford Station and the Sodor Steamworks. Large interactive models of Thomas the Tank Engine and his friends\, combined with STEAM challenges\, remind children ages 2 through 7 and their caregivers\, how “really useful” we all are. \nWith the series’ major characters being modes of transportation\, the world of Thomas is a launch pad for STEAM exploration. STEAM-based learning is visible as children identify problems\, ask questions\, seek answers\, and explore tools and materials. Selling tickets and fixing the train schedule\, building train routes\, fixing Percy’s wobbly wheels and loading him encourage children to think about the technology and creativity behind steam engines. \nThe exhibit’s combination of STEAM-based learning and timeless lessons – bolstered by the series’ enduring popularity and multi-generation appeal –support adult/child engagement and a child’s growth in 21st century skills laying a foundation for success in school\, work and life. \n\n\n\n\nLocally Sponsored by: Prisma Health\, WSPA News Channel 7\, Spinx\, Quality Business Solutions\, C&S Family of Companies\, Publix Charities\, and the Greater Greenville Association of Realtors
URL:https://upcountryhistory.org/event/thomas-friends-explore-the-rails/
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190223T100000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190526T170000
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SUMMARY:Jerry Pinkney Imaginings
DESCRIPTION:Organized by the Norman Rockwell Museum the exhibition and a companion interactive exhibit designed for children\, will explore the Jerry Pinkney’s engagement with literature\, his legacy of creating powerful images\, the joy of reading and the power of sharing stories. \nImaginings features over 100 watercolors and sketches\, as well as interviews\, objects and memorabilia that reflect the artist’s love of literature and his process of creating meaningful visual solutions that expand and enliven a narrative. \nThe exhibit’s immersive portion invites visitors to enter a world of literacy adventures as they step into the pages of Jerry Pinkney’s books. Interactive experiences and themed reading environments take visitors on a journey through the world of classic and contemporary literature including Noah’s Ark\, Sam and the Tigers\, Puss in Boots\, The Talking Eggs\, John Henry\, The Ugly Duckling and many more. \nDesigned for children ages 2 to 10 and their caregivers\, the three-dimensional play and learning environments provide\, children with hands-on literacy based experiences and adults with tools for cultivating literacy through everyday activities. \nExhibit Partner: The Norman Rockwell Museum \nSponsored by: Duke Energy\, Clemson University\, Clemson’s Men of Color National Summit\, WSPA News Channel 7
URL:https://upcountryhistory.org/event/jerry-pinkney-imaginings/
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20190209T100000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190512T170000
DTSTAMP:20190131T224434Z
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SUMMARY:The Original Mad Man: Illustrations by Mac Conner
DESCRIPTION:The Original Mad Man: Illustrations by Mac Conner\, a special exhibit organized by the Museum of the\nCity of New York\, features the work of McCauley (Mac) Conner\, one of the leading “Ad Men” of the 1950s and 60s. During this time\, Conner’s captivating advertising and editorial illustrations graced the pages of major magazines\, including Cosmopolitan\, Redbook\, Good Housekeeping\, Ladies’ Home Journal\, Woman’s Day\, and The Saturday Evening Post\, helping shape the popular image of postwar America. \nThe exhibit explores the enduring influence of commercial artists on 1960s fashion\, film\, music\, literature\, social norms and art; as well as one man’s prolific career in New York City\, the world’s media capital and the country’s publishing center\, in the pivotal years after World War II. \nOver 70 original hand-painted illustrations\, pastel sketches and ephemera from Conner’s private collection highlight his illustration process. Correspondence with editors and art directors provide visitors with a glimpse inside the dynamic world of publishing at a time when the advertising industry was at its height and almost entirely on New York’s Madison Avenue. Conner and his “Mad Men” (Madison Avenue) contemporaries perfected the art of the sale and transformed American culture. \nExhibit Partner: The Museum of the City of New York \nSponsored by: WSPA News Channel 7
URL:https://upcountryhistory.org/event/the-original-mad-man-illustrations-by-mac-conner-2/
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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