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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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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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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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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
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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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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/
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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/
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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/
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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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DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20191020T170000
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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/
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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/
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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
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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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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20181201T100000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20181201T140000
DTSTAMP:20181127T202909Z
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SUMMARY:Family Fun Day
DESCRIPTION:Celebrate the holidays Peanuts-style! To coincide with our exhibition\, Merry Christmas Charlie Brown\, we will have fun games and crafts that will have you excited and ready for Christmas. PLUS\, Snoopy will be here throughout the morning for a unique take on your holiday pictures! \nFamily Fun Day is included with your general admission.
URL:https://upcountryhistory.org/event/family-fun-day-4/
CATEGORIES:Events,Exhibitions,Highlight,Programs
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20181103T100000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190210T170000
DTSTAMP:20181029T001539Z
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SUMMARY:Merry Christmas\, Charlie Brown!
DESCRIPTION:The holidays just wouldn’t be the same without The Peanuts gang. And for millions of people around the world\, it really isn’t Christmas until they have watched A Charlie Brown Christmas. \n\n\nCelebrating the holidays in true Peanuts-style\, the Upcountry History Museum will host the latest traveling exhibition from the Charles M. Schulz Museum\, titled Merry Christmas\, Charlie Brown! The Peanuts-centric exhibit invites visitors to enter the world of Charlie Brown\, as they explore the making of the 1965 holiday classic and reflect on the true meaning of Christmas. \nPeanuts had become a phenomenon worldwide by the mid-1960s\, and the Christmas special was commissioned and sponsored by The Coca Cola Company. It was written over a period of several weeks\, and animated on a shoestring budget in only six months. In casting the characters\, the producers went an unconventional route\, hiring child actors. The program’s soundtrack was similarly unorthodox; featuring a jazz score by pianist Vince Guaraldi. Its absence of a laugh track (a staple in US television animation in the 1960s)\, in addition to its tone\, pacing\, music\, and animation led both the producers and network to wrongly predict the project would be a disaster preceding its broadcast. \nContrary to that apprehension\, A Charlie Brown Christmas received high ratings and acclaim from critics\, winning both an Emmy and a Peabody Award. It became an annual broadcast in the United States\, and has been aired annually during the Christmas season since it premiere. Its success paved the way for a series of Peanuts television specials and\nfilms —and the rest is history! \nThe Merry Christmas\, Charlie Brown! exhibition celebrates the holiday season while offering visitors a behind-the-scenes look at the making of this holiday classic. Artwork\, objects\, and a video featuring Charles M. Schulz\, producer Lee Mendelson\, and animator/director Bill Melendez that details the sometimes magical and often madcap making of A Charlie Brown Christmas will be displayed within an immersive Peanuts-themed environment. \nExhibition organized by the Charles M. Schulz Museum\, Santa Rosa\, CA \nSponsored by: Piedmont Natural Gas and QBS – Quality Business Solutions
URL:https://upcountryhistory.org/event/merry-christmas-charlie-brown/
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180922T100000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190127T170000
DTSTAMP:20190125T234328Z
CREATED:20180925T205454Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190125T234328Z
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SUMMARY:Dinosaurs: Land of Fire and Ice
DESCRIPTION:Dinosaurs: Land of Fire and Ice is the first child-centered exhibit in the country dedicated to expanding the understanding of dinosaurs and their habitats. Designed for young explorers\, ages 3-10\, the bilingual (Spanish and English) exhibit features three distinct sections that build on a child’s innate curiosity about dinosaurs: Land of Fire (a warm dinosaur habitat)\, Land of Ice (a cold dinosaur habitat)\, and a Field Research Station (complete with a Big Dig experience). \nThe steamy Land of Fire\, present day Montana\, introduces visitors to the Triceratops\, T-Rex and the dinosaurs who called this environment home. Children can circle the land in insect costumes\, buzz through a volcano with oozing lava\, work through a swampy bog and identify an ecosystem of animals and plants. \nNo coats are needed for a trip across the Land of Ice where visitors meet the dinosaurs who made their homes in the cold climate of Alaska. Activities include: climbing rocky steps\, breezing down an icy slide\, and hopping across stepping stones in an icy river. \nIn the hands-on Field Research Station children and their caregivers don goggles and research vests\, as they uncover dinosaur bones in a dig station and examine fossils to identify dinosaurs. \nThe exhibit builds on the popular fascination with dinosaurs and includes science\, history\, and literacy based activities to challenge all ages. Sculpted\, touchable dinosaurs\, featuring\nthe most recent scientific findings about dinosaur colors\, textures and structural form create opportunities for young explorers to investigate clues that the dinosaurs left behind. \nSponsored by: GE\, BMW Group Plant Spartanburg\, WSPA News Channel 7\, BlueCross BlueShield of South Carolina\, Harper Corporation General Contractors\, and the Greater Greenville Association of Realtors.
URL:https://upcountryhistory.org/event/dinosaurs-land-of-fire-and-ice/
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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DTSTART;TZID=UTC:20180825T100000
DTEND;TZID=UTC:20190602T170000
DTSTAMP:20181102T173634Z
CREATED:20180801T204927Z
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SUMMARY:Answering the Call... From Recruit to the Front Lines of WWI
DESCRIPTION:World War I. The Great War. The “war to end all wars.” \nIt was a war that began on July 28\, 1914\, and saw major nations of the world mobilize armies into expected alliances. It was also a war that three years later on April 6\, 1917\, brought the United States into its first major international conflict since its own battle for independence. \nDespite being woefully unprepared for war – possessing a standing national army of less than 200\,000 soldiers\, a lack of equipment\, munitions and training facilities\, no process for supplying and transporting an army\, and garnering more support for neutrality as opposed to entering a conflict not of its own making and on foreign soil – the U.S. rallied with extraordinary speed to overcome these initial hurdles as it found itself now drawn into battle. \nAs the first members of the American Expeditionary Forces (AEF) arrived in Europe in June 1917\, the impact of their presence was both immediate and steadying. The Doughboys proved up to the challenges presented by this new industrialized war\, persevering in unimaginable conditions\, forging through horrors of trench warfare\, and solidifying a greater understanding of America’s role in the world\, as well as the sacrifices required for democracy and peace. \nAnswering the Call…From Recruit to the Front Lines of WWI a special exhibition at the Upcountry History Museum presents an overview of the influence “the Great War” had on the course of history\, as well as some of the notable advancements made to the modern world as a result. \nFocusing on the experience from a recruit’s perspective\, this artifact-rich exhibit will draw visitors into the everyday life of the American Doughboy\, including what he wore\, what he ate\, the equipment he carried\, and the thoughts he shared with those on the home front. Drawn from local collectors and the Museum’s permanent collection\, the exhibit will feature original posters used to rally the public; postcards and photos from local troops stationed at Greenville’s Camp Sevier and Spartanburg’s Camp Wadsworth; arms\, field equipment\, and personal essentials carried by individual soldiers as they embarked on their journey “over there.” \nIn addition\, Answering the Call seeks to raise awareness of the roles and contributions of women and African Americans during the call to serve\, as well as the significance their participation meant to transformative social change in areas of women’s rights\, race relations and the economy as the modern era began.
URL:https://upcountryhistory.org/event/answering-the-call-from-recruit-to-the-front-lines-of-wwi/
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20181022
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SUMMARY:Picturing Nam
DESCRIPTION:Organized by the National Archives \nJune 16 – October 21\, 2018 \nPhotographs are a powerful part of our collective memory of the Vietnam War. Many of the iconic photographs were taken by photojournalists working for newspapers\, magazines\, or wire services. But there were also military photographers in Vietnam serving in our armed forces. They took thousands of photographs that covered every aspect of the conflict –photographs that are now a part of our National Archives. \nMilitary photographers were sent everywhere: the jungles and swamps\, forward bases\, hospital ships\, rivers\, and air bases. Un-sanitized and uncensored\, these indelible images give an intimate and ground up view of the war and those who fought it.
URL:https://upcountryhistory.org/event/picturing-nam/
CATEGORIES:Exhibitions
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