The Williamson Museum in Georgetown also has a low cost Swedish immigrant display. It consists of 4 free standing 3 x 8 collapsible, 2-sided displayers, light weight and easy to store, units and a small steamer chest with items for children to touch. At Round Rock we did not lose one item from the chest! There is no cost to Williamson Co sites. The displays can fit in a long hall or be placed like a set of standing dominoes-whatever you have floorspace for. Write to [EMAIL PROTECTED]<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> for more information.
Dale Dale Ricklefs, Library Director Round Rock Public Library 216 E. Main Street, Round Rock, Texas 78664 512-218-7010; 218-7061 (fax); 669-1753 (cell); [EMAIL PROTECTED] -------------------------------------------------------------- Please note that our spam blocker blocks many emails, especially yahoo, gmail, and similar sites. You may get a "mailbox full" message. This means you have been blocked. Please call at one of the numbers above if you are having problems getting through. Thank you! From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Laurie Mahaffey Sent: Wednesday, December 10, 2008 2:12 PM To: [email protected] Subject: [ctls-l] FW: Great exhibit at El Progreso Library Here's a notice about a traveling exhibit for your community. Programs for all ages could be developed to coincide with the exhibit. It illustrates a little-known chapter in American history. Please click on the highlighted links below for more information. Laurie Laurie Mahaffey, Deputy Director Central Texas Library System, Inc. 1005 West 41st Street Austin, Texas 78756 www.ctls.net<http://www.ctls.net> [EMAIL PROTECTED]<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 512-583-0704 x18 800-262-4431 x18 Subject: Great exhibit at El Progreso Library We had the opening of this exhibit on Sunday here at El Progreso Memorial Library. It was well received and I recommend it for other libraries and museums. Thank you for passing the below announcement to your members/patrons/colleagues/friends. This Texas/WWII-history exhibit, and related programs /guest speakers promise to greatly enrich the public's knowledge and appreciation of this little-known sub-chapter of Texas/U.S. history. Thank you so much! XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX please distribute the below announcement: TRACES Center for History and Culture (based in St. Paul/MN: www.TRACES.org<http://www.traces.org/>) and Humanities Texas (www.humanitiestexas.org<http://www.humanitiestexas.org/>) are pleased to announce VANISHED: German-American Civilian Internees in Texas, 1941-48 a travelling exhibit touring the state of Texas, starting December 2008. To view the panels, scroll down at http://traces.org/buseum_2_tour/buseum_2.html [The exhibit will circulate Texas sans BUS. These are only the 10 didactic panels; the others are not shown. Spanish translations are provided, both for panels and exhibit guide book. This story includes materials regarding Latin-American Germans interned in the U.S.: for details see a related LA Times editorial http://traces.org/Media/LA_Times_editorial_20077-03-18.html ] A half-dozen former internees in Texas camps are willing to come speak at select venues. If you'd like to show this timely exhibit in your community and possibly have a former internee speak at the exhibit opening, please read further, as we are booking Texas venue hosts now, on a 1st-come/1st-served basis. background and overview: During WWII the U.S. Government interned 15,000 German-American civilians at over 60 camps and detention centers across the country-seven of them in Texas. Utilizing 13 narrative panels, an NBC "Dateline" documentary featuring internment in Texas and a 1945 U.S. Government color film about Camp Crystal City, props from the period and down-loadable teaching materials, TRACES will circulate two copies of this unique exhibit around Texas from December 2008 through 2010, with showings in about 55 communities. Guest speakers and related programs complement this timely story's educational value and impact. Downloadable press releases and other publicity materials facilitate PR efforts. An exhibit guide features biographies and other documentation from the exhibit, with Spanish translations. exhibit's main goals: This project's main goals include presenting an unknown history to a wide audience, stimulating penetrating questions on the part of visitors to the exhibit and, when possible, leading them to subsequent discussions guided by local community leaders. It explores a virtually unknown yet significant historical event-possibly one of the U.S.'s least-known WWII sub-chapters. While especially relevant to communities with high numbers of German-American residents, all kinds of communities across the state of Texas will have an opportunity-in most cases for the first time-to discuss the implications as well as legacy of the U.S. Government's WWII "enemy alien" internment program. exhibit fees/costs: Like other TRACES exhibits, the fee for showing VANISHED reflects the size of the community (read: "tax base") and duration of each showing. Sliding Fee Scale for VANISHED showings/optional scholar guest speaker: --- 1-15,000 inhabitants: $750 for 3 weeks, $1,350 for 7 weeks; Michael Luick-Thrams' speaking fee: $250 plus travel costs --- 15,001-50,000 inhabitants: $950 for 3 weeks, $1,550 for 7 weeks; ML-T's speaking fee: $350 plus travel costs --- 50,001-100,000 inhabitants: $1,150 for 3 weeks, $1,750 for 7 weeks; ML-T's speaking fee: $450 plus travel costs --- 100,001 + inhabitants: $1,350 for 3 weeks, $1,950 for 7 weeks; ML-T's speaking fee: $550 plus travel costs The exhibit will be delivered to your institution by the preceding host; you will need to cover the costs of transferring it to the next showing after yours, estimated in most cases to cost $50-250, depending on whether the host forwards the exhibit post-showing via personal delivery (for short distances) or via UPS. (Some Texas libraries are subscribers to TEXPRESS courier service, which should be able to deliver most if not all of the items included in the exhibit.) A downloadable press release and poster will facilitate publicity efforts, which-along with publicity costs-are the responsibility of each host, although TRACES staff will be available for radio or newspaper interviews. possible funding sources: TRACES has shown its exhibits in a couple thousand communities in all 12 Midwest states plus a couple outside our focus region. Typically, exhibit hosts have had much success in attracting financial support from collaborating sponsors: Friends of public libraries, county or even state historical societies, local colleges or universities and senior/junior high schools, veterans groups and-especially in communities that were home to camps during WWII-chambers of commerce/CVBs eager to highlight local tourist-attraction-worthy historical sites. Humanities Texas has endorsed this exhibit and also indicated a willingness to award "mini-grants" to communities wishing to show this exhibit: be sure to apply early! suggested exhibit-related programming: Each host is invited to organize a Community Conversation in conjunction with each showing of VANISHED: in addition to welcoming community members to view the 13 narrative panels and watch the documentary films about this internment, each town can hold a panel-led open discussion about this topic. Through this exhibit and the subsequent discussions, Texans will see WWII history in a new way, and "re-visit" an event and a period too often misunderstood and obscured by facile clichés. The discussion itself is meant to support healthy democratic involvement and processes. Typically, a host asks local community leaders (educators, clergy, journalists, public officials, military officials, students, business people, etc.) to sit on a panel of three, five or seven panelists (one as moderator), to discuss issues like the following Guiding Questions: -Are ethnic background or ideology justifiable grounds for internment (in other words, imprisoning suspects for who they are or what they believe, as opposed to their actions)? -Does a given society "owe" due process only to its citizens, or also to legal non-citizen residents? -During WWII the U.S. Government forcibly removed 4,058 Latin American Germans from South America-some of whom were German or Austrian Jews who'd recently fled Nazi persecution-to camps in Texas, at Ellis Island and elsewhere [just as 2,200 Peruvian Japanese also were interned alongside indigenous Japanese Americans]: what are some of this action's legal and moral implications? Was this action effective? -"Enemy-alien" internment was a multi-million-dollar, seven-year U.S. Government project: was it effective (i.e., did it reach its intended aims) or not? What other actions might have been taken, rather than to intern some 150,000 Japanese, Italian and German Americans? - Both camp staff and many of those interned were sworn to secrecy. In 1988 the U.S. Government acknowledged that it had interned Japanese Americans during WWII, and in 2000 it admitted that it also had imprisoned Italian Americans; as of this writing, however, it has never confessed to having interned German Americans. To what extent, and for how long, is a government accountable for its actions? Does it "owe" reparations to those wrongfully harmed? If so, in what form? TRACES-developed downloadable teaching materials will augment the fullest impact of this exhibit. In some cases TRACES Executive Director Michael Luick-Thrams will be available to speak about German-American internment, as are former internees themselves (mostly former children interned at Camp Crystal City, some of whom were deported during or after the war to Germany with their families). contact: For more information or to book a showing, contact: [EMAIL PROTECTED]<mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or 651.646.0400; see www.TRACES.org<http://www.traces.org/> for further information, as well. Susan Anderson El Progreso Memorial Library 301 W. Main St. Uvalde, Texas 78801 (830) 278-2017 ________________________________ Suspicious message? There's an alert for that. Get your Hotmail® account now.<http://windowslive.com/Explore/hotmail?ocid=TXT_TAGLM_WL_hotmail_acq_broad2_122008>
