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Today: Monday, May 12, 2008
Cokie Roberts
Livingston Lecture
May 12, 2008 8:00 PM–9:30 PM
Join us for an evening lecture with New York Times bestselling author, Cokie Roberts, to discuss her book Ladies of Liberty: The Women Who Shaped Our Nation.
Cokie Roberts is a political commentator for ABC News and serves as senior news analyst for National Public Radio. From 1996 to 2002, she and Sam Donaldson co-anchored the weekly ABC interview program This Week.
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Adult Program |
Courage: The Vision to End Segregation, the Guts to Fight for It.
January 19–June 22, 2008
Courage: The Vision to End Segregation, the Guts to Fight for It is based on an award-winning exhibition developed in 2004 by Levine Museum of the New South to mark the 50th anniversary of the Supreme Court's decision in Brown v. Board of Education. The "case of the century," as it is often called, began when a country preacher named Reverend J.A. De Laine and his neighbors filed a lawsuit demanding the end of separate, unequal schools for their children.
On display through June 22, 2008!
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Tradition/Innovation: American Masterpieces of Southern Craft and Traditional Art
March 1–May 18, 2008
Featuring more than 130 works by 58 master traditional art and contemporary craft artists, Tradition/Innovation demonstrates that traditional arts are alive and well in the region. The work of craftspeople from throughout the Southern Arts Federation's nine partner states (AL, FL, GA, KY, LA, MI, NC, SC and TN) is accompanied by a rich array of artist interviews, stories, and background information on artists and their process.
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In The Classical Traditon: Designs By Phillip Trammell Shutze
April 1–September 27, 2008
In the Classical Tradition: Designs by Philip Trammell Shutze, highlights Shutzes career of more than half a century during which he produced over seven hundred architectural designs for a variety of structures, including not only residences, but commercial, educational, religious, and other buildings. In many cases, his plans included details for garden ornaments, gate and fence patterns, lighting and decorative fixtures, column capitals and molded plaster motifs.
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Magic Mondays: May Flowers
Magic Mondays
May 12, 2008 10:30 AM–11:30 PM
Magic Mondays is a monthly preschool program that welcomes children ages eighteen months to five years. Add some magic to your child's month with guided explorations of History Center galleries and grounds, arts and crafts projects, story time, and snacks!
This Monday's theme is May Flowers.
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Family Program |
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