American Heroes: Creating A More Perfect Union

FAIN: BC-50198-04

New Hampshire Humanities Council (Concord, NH 03301-3852)
Toby Ball (Project Director: March 2004 to April 2017)

New Hampshire's Chautauqua 2004, "American Heroes: Creating a More Perfect Union," a six-day living history festival featuring scholars portraying historical American figures.

New Hampshire's Chautauqua is a six-day living history festival in Keene and Portsmouth comprised of evening presentations by nationally acclaimed scholars assuming personas of historical American figures; day workshops for children and adults; Young Chautauqua presentations by teen-aged students who spend eight weeks studying historical figures and training for onstage presentation; teachers’ professional workshops for K-12 classroom curriculum development; breakfast discussions with Chautauqua scholars; and musical performances. This is the ninth year of Chautauqua in NH.