A little more information about costs for this traveling exhibit. If you are interested, please reply & we'll see if enough people want to do it to get a discount.
Thanks. Laurie Laurie Mahaffey, Deputy Director Central Texas Library System, Inc. 1005 West 41st Street Austin, Texas 78756 www.ctls.net [email protected] 512-583-0704 x18 800-262-4431 x18 -----Original Message----- From: Olivia Belote [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Thursday, October 22, 2009 12:12 PM To: Laurie Mahaffey Subject: Held on the Homefront: German POWs in the U.S., 1943-46 Dear Laurie Mahaffey, Thank you for your interest in TRACES and our traveling exhibit, "Held on the Homefront." I called Thursday, the 22nd, but missed you. I would love the opportunity to speak with you to answer any questions you have about the tour and confirming a showing. Until we can speak directly, below is a copy of our e-flyer with more information about the exhibit and the price scale. The price is dependent on how long of showing you would like (3 or 7 hours) and the size of your town (this is based on number of residents that the library serves, not the size of audience you expect to draw for the exhibit). Depending on where you would like to host the exhibit, if you are serving the general Austin population the price would be around $550 3 hours, $850 for 7 hours. Please contact us with more questions or when you are ready to confirm a showing! Hope all is well, Olivia Belote TRACES Intern Macalester College 2011 TRACES Center for History and Culture 1729 Hague Avenue #2 Saint Paul MN 55104 land 651.646.0400 fax 651.646.8070 Email address: [email protected] Web site: www.TRACES.org ************************************************************************ *** E-FLYER ************************************************************************ *** TRACES Center for History and Culture is featuring Held on the Homefront: German POWs in the U.S., 1943-46, a traveling exhibit touring the state of Texas, December 10, 2009 through January 6, 2010. Held on the Homefront is an unusual, rich story brought to life in BUS-eum 3-a 40-foot school bus converted into a mobile classroom and museum. The exhibit consists of 15 narrative display panels illustrated with photographs and documents, audio and DVD documentaries, artifacts and more. As of Labor Day weekend 2009, this exhibit has embarked on a two year tour schedule to visit both large and small communities in about 25 states, from Minnesota to Texas, then Florida and, by June 2011, Boston. This link provides a short video clip of a BUS-eum 3 stop in Michigan: http://www.traces.org/Buseum_3_tour/Held%20in%20the%20Heartland%20Curren t/hartland-video.html Although few people know the story today, almost half a million Axis POWs were held in the U.S. during WWII. Three hundred and eighty thousand of these POWs were Germans, held in 660 camps in almost every state in the union. They worked side by side with their American "hosts" and in the process formed relationships, some lasting for decades. These experiences on all sides embody ageless and timely themes of war and peace, justice under arms, and issues regarding human rights, international reconciliation and future conflict avoidance. In total, there were over seventy camps in the state of Texas alone: Camp Atlanta (Cass County)-Fort Bliss (El Paso County)-Camp Bowie (Brown County)-Camp Brady (McCulloch County)-Camp Bullis (San Antonio)-Corpus Christi Naval Air Station (Nueces County)-Fort Crockett (Galveston County)-and more. Branch Camps: Alto (Cherokee County)-Alvin (Brazoria County)-Amarillo Army Air Field (Potter County)-Anahuac (Chambers County)-Angleton (Brazoria County)-Ashburn General Hospital (Collin County)-Bannister (San Augustine County)-Barkeley (Taylor County)-Bay City (Matagorda County)-Big Springs Army Air Field (Howard County)-Biggs Field (El Paso County)-Bryan (Brazos County)-Canutillo (El Paso County)-Center (Shelby County)-and more. Civilian Internment Camps: Crystal City (Zavala County) -Gatesville Internment Camp (Coryell County) -Kenedy Alien Internment Camp (Karnes County) -Fort Sam Houston, (Bexar County) -Seagoville (Dallas County) If your institution signs up as a firm host within ONE WEEK of our initially contacting you, we will take 20% off the below fees, 10% if you sign up within TWO WEEKS of our first contact. Fee scale: 1 - 1,500 population of city or town $350 for 3 hours, $525 for 7 hours 1,501 - 5,000 --$350 3 hours, $550 7 hours 5,001 - 7,500 -- $375 3 hours, $575 7 hours 7,501 - 10,000 -- $400 3 hours, $600 7 hours 10,001 - 20,000 -- $425 3 hours, $650 7 hours 20,001 - 30,000 -- $450 3 hours, $675 7 hours 30,001 - 50,000 -- $475 3 hours, $750 7 hours 50,001 - 100,000 -- $500 3 hours, $800 7 hours 100,001 or more -- $550 3 hours, $850 for 7 hours Also, if we receive a grant to tour from Texas these rates will be discounted--but we need your help! If you are interested in the tour we would be greatly appreciative if you could write a short letter of support for us to add to our grant profile Slots are limited and will be confirmed on a first-come/first-served basis. Call 651.646.0400 or contact [email protected] for details or to reserve a showing; immediate response is suggested. Please feel free to check out our website for more tour information (www.TRACES.org <http://www.traces.org/> ). TRACES Center for History and Culture is a non-profit 501(c)(3) organization. State affiliates of the National Endowment for the Humanities underwrite this tour; local hosts fund the rest.
