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Living History
The season's best bets for celebrating your heritage and reliving history.
Los Angeles, California St. Louis, Missouri Big Timber, Montanta Charleston, South Carolina Alexandria, Virginia Suggest a Fest Lauren Eisenstodt is associate editor of Family Tree Magazine. For more living history destinations, see the February
2005 Family Tree Magazine.
By Lauren Eisenstodt
American Picture Show
To celebrate the 20th anniversary of its photography department, the Getty Center will showcase nearly 200 family snapshots in a special exhibition, Close
to Home: An American Album, through Jan. 16. Dating mostly from 1930 to 1960—with several examples from the mid-1800s—and spanning
the continent, these portraits depict ordinary people, as seen through the eye of the lens. Close to Home features the works of famous photographers, such
as Dorothea Lange, Alfred Stieglitz and Edward Weston, as well as more than 120 amateur shots, collected over the years in open-air markets. The exhibit
also includes 25 prints created by artist Guy Stricherz from Kodachrome transparencies he received after a call for old color slides. Subjects pose with
their dearest friends and loved ones, their prized possessions and their fanciest—or most casual—clothes. You're sure to recognize the emotions
behind these snapshots, if not the people. Admission to the Getty is free; parking costs $5 per car. For more information, call (310) 440-7300 or
visit www.getty.edu.
Heading for Home
The National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Cooperstown, NY, scores a home run with its traveling exhibit Baseball As America, on display at the
Missouri History Museum through April 24. Featuring more than 500 historical balls, bats, gloves, uniforms, books, ephemera and photographs, the
exhibit explores the evolution of the nation's pastime and its effects on our society and culture. See the legendary "Doubleday" baseball from the mythical
first game, Jackie Robinson's 1956 Brooklyn Dodgers jersey, artifacts from the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League, "Shoeless" Joe Jackson's shoes
and more. You'll catch baseball fever all over again. Admission costs $8 for adults and $7 for seniors and students over the age of 6 (but you'll get in
free on Tuesdays). Contact the Missouri History Museum (314-746-4599, www.mohistory.org) or visit the Baseball As
America Web site www.baseballasamerica.com for details.
Rustlin' Up Rhymes
Big Timber welcomes all pickers, grinners and poets to participate in the annual Montana Cowboy Poetry Wintercamp Jan. 14-16. Held at American Legion
Post 19, this festival keeps Western traditions alive through open-mike poetry, music and storytelling. The camp kicks off Friday evening with a chuck-wagon
meal and entertainment by young bards from area schools. All day Saturday, listen to local pickers and poets performing on an open stage. Saturday night,
Montana's best bards, including headliner Stephanie Davis, will wax poetic in the Nightrider Show. The weekend winds up Sunday morning at Cowboy Church.
Friday's meal costs $5, and the Nightrider Show costs $12—all other events are free. Call (406) 932-4427 for details.
Old-Fashioned Eats
Curious about your ancestors' eating habits? Through Sept. 12, the Charleston Museum will explore 18th- and 19th-century dining customs in its
exhibition The Bountiful Coast: Foodways of the South Carolina Lowcountry. Find out how people of all social classes procured, prepared and served
their food. Exhibit highlights include place settings and furniture from South Carolina dining rooms, antique kitchen utensils, and artifacts excavated
from Charleston's beef market, which flourished during the 18th century on the current City Hall grounds. Admission costs $9 for adults and $4 for children.
For more information, call (843) 722-2996 or visit www.charlestonmuseum.org.
Civil Shindig
Wish you could dance as your Civil War ancestors did? Learn how at Gadsby's Tavern Museum—a once-thriving 1800s hotel—Jan. 12, 19 and 26 from
7:30 to 9:30 p.m. Classes cost $12 each or $30 for the series, and include instruction in the waltz, polka, Virginia Reel and other period dances. Jan.
29, you'll get to show off your fancy footwork at the museum's Civil War Ball, featuring live music, dance instruction and old-fashioned desserts
from 8 to 11 p.m. Dress up in 19th-century civilian or military garb, and prepare to mingle—dancing with one person all night was considered rude in
Civil War times. Ball tickets cost $30 in advance and $40 at the door; to order, call (703) 838-4242 or visit
www.gadsbystavern.org.
Planning a cultural event in your community? Have a favorite heritage destination? Tell us about it! We might highlight that happening in a future issue. Send details to Living History, Family Tree Magazine, 4700 E. Galbraith Road, Cincinnati, OH 45236 or FTMletters@fwpubs.com. Please send information at least four months in advance of the event.
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