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Youth Workshop

 

Join us as we explore local  legends and folklore!  Each day we will begin with a story, and then have a day of activities where we will explore and expand on aspects of them.

Our stories this year are:

The First Strawberries, A Cherokee Story

The Great Ball Game, A Muskogee Story

Swamp Angel, An Appalachian Folktale

General Info

 

June 7-9, 9:30-1:30

Ages 7-11

$65/non-members, $55/members

For more information, call 770-720-5969 or email josiah.wolff@reinhardt.edu

Youth Workshop Application

Camp Form 2022 (pdf)

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lectures

7/9 (SATURDAY)  

Dr. Andrew Denson will give a talk on how we commemorate the Trail of Tears in the South.  


9/8  

Northeast Georgia History Center will give a talk on Legal and Legislative Aspects of Cherokee Removal    


9/15  

Wayne Glowka will be telling stories with his banjo.    


9/22  

Donna Longino will discuss Cherokee history in conjunction with her novel, Sarah's Way, about nineteen-year-old Sarah's experiences on the Trail of Tears.   

 

9/29  

Karen Coody Cooper, via livestream, will discuss her new book, Cherokee Women in Charge: Female Power and Leadership in American Indian Nations of Eastern North America     


10/6  

Miriam Brown Spiers, professor at KSU, will discuss her book,  Encountering the Sovereign Other: Indigenous Science Fiction, which examines the ways that American Indian novelists have adapted the generic tropes of science fiction as a means of resisting cultural assimilation and reasserting the value of Indigenous knowledges in the twenty-first century.    


10/13  

Bill Cagle will discuss his book, The Road to Georgia Marble, a history of the marble industry in Georgia that began with a road that cut through Cherokee land. 


10/20

Dr. Grace Hale will discuss her book, Cool Town: How Athens, Georgia Launched Alternative Music and Changed American Culture


10/27

Laine Kirby Wood will discuss her work with the Etowah River Alliance.

General Info

Lectures are on Thursdays at 2pm unless otherwise noted.   Free/FHC members, $10/non-members  Call us at 770-720-5970 to reserve your spot!

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