CSC veterans exhibit to be in Crawford
Chadron State College’s World War II Veterans Exhibition, which features student writing and photography, will be displayed in Crawford this week during the Old West Trails Rodeo celebration and throughout most of the month of July.
The display at the Crawford Community Center will begin Friday, July 2, and end Wednesday, July 28. Crawford is the second stop for the exhibit in a series of community celebrations this summer.
The exhibit was recently shown in Rushville and will be in Gordon for the Sheridan County Fair in August. It will hang Aug. 9-31 at the Ad Pad on the 100 block of North Main St.
Ken Korte, CSC interim exhibit design and display specialist, said the exhibit also is scheduled to be displayed at Eastern Wyoming College in Torrington this November.
The Veterans Exhibition, which was created in 2000, features 30 framed one-page excerpts from essays written by students in Dr. Kathy Bahr’s Composition II courses. The students interviewed nearby residents of the Great Plains who witnessed the war -- veterans and many of the “unsung heroes” who remained on the home front. The exhibit also includes pictures of those interviewed who were photographed by students in Alan Schoer’s Creative Photography course.
Pieces from the exhibit have been displayed at numerous sites throughout Nebraska and beyond during the past three years, including the U.S. Library of Congress and the state capitol building.
In 2002, Chadron State entered a partnership with the Library of Congress and its American Folklife Center to encourage support and participation for the federal Veterans History Project.
Category: Campus News, Sandoz Society