Sandoz Center events added to Oktoberfest
Tickets will be available at the door for the annual Oktoberfest sponsored by the Campus Historical Forum at Chadron State College on Tuesday, Oct. 10 from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. in the Student Center. The tickets are $6 each. The food will include bratwurst, sauerkraut, potato salad, riva kuga and a beverage. Proceeds are often used to help Historical Forum members take a trip.
This year, the Mari Sandoz High Plains Heritage Center is adding to the festivities by sponsoring a few additional activities.
Tonight (Monday, Oct. 9) at 7 o’clock, Dr. Tom Isern, a professor of history from North Dakota State University, will present "Nowhere Over the Rainbow: The Great Plains in Folksong." The presentation will combine traditional folksongs, original compositions and reflective essays. Songs include a version of "Red River Valley," called "Loup River Valley." This presentation is free to the public and will be in the Chicoine Atrium at the Sandoz Center.
Isern is a native of western Kansas. His academic specialties are the history and folklore of the Great Plains. He is the author or co-author of six books, including, most recently, Dakota Circle: Excursions on the True Plains. His particular interest is the story of farming, ranching and rural life on the plains. Every other year so far this decade he has directed a summer seminar for teachers, "The Great Plains from Texas to Saskatchewan," funded by the National Endowment for the Humanities and hosted by North Dakota State University.
Another presenter for Oktoberfest will be Jessica Clark, a PhD student at NDSU and coordinator of the Dakota Memories Oral History Project. He will speak on "German-Russian Childhood: Growing up on the Great Plains." Isern may also try to teach those in attendance a German-Russian folksong.
On Tuesday, Oct. 10, the day of the Oktoberfest celebration, the Sandoz Center will be sponsoring the TRACES Center for History and Culture--a Midwest/WWII history museum in Saint Paul/MN-- BUS-eum 2, with the exhibit VANISHED: German-American Civilian Internment, 1941-48. This exhibit is traveling the U.S. in a self-contained bus, hence the name – the Bus-eum.
The bus will be parked in the lot to the west of the Sandoz Center.
Sponsored by various Midwest Humanities Councils and the Otto Bremer Foundation, the exhibit tells the stories of 15,000 German-American civilians who were imprisoned by the U.S. government during WW II.
This project’s goals include presenting relatively unknown history and stimulating open discussion, guided by panels of local hosts’ own community leaders. For more information, see www.TRACES.org.)
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