Kids / Family
Date: 06/15/2010 1900 America Chautauqua Offers Special Father’s Day Activities
by Press Release
Midway Village Museum’s national award winning, signature summer event, the 1900 America Chautauqua will entertain families from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, June 19 and 20, in the Victorian era Midway Village. Enjoy two days of concerts and hands-on demonstrations for all ages set in the year 1900. Admission is $8 for adults and $4 for children (ages 3 to 17). Two day passes are also available for $12 for adults and $6 for children. Midway Village Museum members are free. This year’s event will feature:
Expanded Buffalo Bill’s Wild West shows twice daily at 12:30 and 3:00 pm
Special Father’s Day weekend interactive games, contests and challenges
Dr. Thelonious Balthasar’s Miracle Medicine Shows as portrayed by Mike Folin of Columbus, Ohio. Selling the latest medical cures for a variety of ailments and afflictions of the common man.
Live performances of Oscar Wilde’s comedy “The Importance of Being Earnest”
Mark Twain as portrayed by Rockford’s Stuart Corsa
Besty Kaske will sing folk songs of the 19th Century
Pianist Amber Veigel will present popular music of the turn-of-the-20thCentury
Presentation “Victorian Era Science Fiction Writers and Their Impact on Popular Culture” by Jill Georgieff. Time machines, vampires, alien invasions and evil scientists have been written about in popular literature for over a hundred years.
Presentation “Not Just Any Marriage – War Bride Caused Scandal” by Suzy Barile of Raleigh, North Carolina. The true story of the marriage of Union Civil War General Smith Atkins of Freeport, Illinois and Southern belle Ella Swain of Chapel Hill, North Carolina and their life following the war.
Presentation “The Rise and Fall of the Great Plains Bison” by Dr. Cliff Knapp, professor, Northern Illinois University. Learn about bison through artifacts and first hand accounts…by 1900 very few bison were left in the American West.
Tours of Midway Village Victorian era gardens by Garden Historian, Tari Rowland. Discover heirloom flower and vegetable varieties seldom seem today.
Prairie Mill Lace Makers demonstrations and hands-on workshops
