October 2018 Events with AWM Affiliates
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Did you know that AWM Members get free admission to 12 Affiliate Homes across the country? See the full list here
Alabama
- Old Courthouse Museum (Truman Capote and Harper Lee) – Monroeville
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- Capote & Other Voices Reading Group, Alabama Afternoons, a collection of portraits of remarkable Alabamians by Roy Hoffman of Mobile.
- Old Claiborne Pilgrimage, Tales of the Alabama River, with historian Tom McGehee
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- The Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald Museum – Montgomery
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- What’s Old is New, the Fitzgerald Annual Literary Contest in Poetry and Short Story, August 25, 12 am – December 31st, 12 am
- Happy Birthday, Scottie! Talk about Scott and Zelda’s Daughter
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Arkansas
- Hemingway-Pfeiffer Museum and Educational Center – Piggott
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- Make It New: Art Between the World Wars (Legacies of the Great War)
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California
- The Beat Museum (Jack Kerouac) – San Francisco
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- William Taylor, Jr. & Thomas Dorsey
- PW Covington – Reading & Workshop
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- Robinson Jeffers Tor House Foundation – Carmel
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- Robinson Jeffers Fall Festival Weekend, “Robinson Jeffers & the Sacredness of Place”
- Special Musical Performance Tour of Tor House
- Sunset Celebration at Tor House Gardens: Dramatic readings by Joyce Henderson and Taelen Thomas; music performed by Pauline Troia
- Presentations on Theme by Literary Scholars at Carmel Women’s Club
- Annual Jeffers Poetry Walk with Elliot Ruchowitz-Roberts and Simon Hunt
- Robinson Jeffers Fall Festival Weekend, “Robinson Jeffers & the Sacredness of Place”
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- Jack London State Historic Park – Glen Ellen
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- High Five Hike
- Saturday Morning Fitness Hikes
- Free Redwood Hikes
- Fall Landscape Photography
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- John Muir National Historic Site– Martinez
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- Creatures of the Night Campfire: Songs, Stories and Activities about nocturnal creatures
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- Eugene O’Neill National Historic Site – Danville
- National Steinbeck Center – Salinas
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- The NEA Big Read Events, This Boy’s Life, by Tobias Wolff (Through mid-October)
- NEA Big Read Film Series: The 400 Blows; The Lavender Scare; Take My Eyes; This Boy’s Life
- Postcards From Salinas: Exhibit Opening and Reception Opening Talk with Curator Alex Fabros
- An Evening with Tobias Wolff, Carmel Women’s Club
- Tobias Wolff at the National Steinbeck Center
- NEA Big Read Book Club, #3, #4 & #5, Facilitated by Eric Mora
- Being LGBTQ+ in Salinas: A Story and Resource Sharing Event
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Colorado
- Colorado Springs Pioneers Museum (Helen Hunt Jackson)– Colorado Springs
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- Food Truck Tuesdays
- Window into History Tours
- Children’s History Tour, “Can You Dig It?”
- Cool Science Festival, City of Sunshine
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Connecticut
- Monte Cristo Cottage (Eugene O’Neill) – Waterford
- Harriet Beecher Stowe Center– Hartford
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- Courageous Conversations Workshop
- Salons at Stowe: Students Writing with Impact
- Nook Farm Walking Tour
- Film: Tobacco Burn with Writer/Director Justin Liberman
- Spirits at Stowe Tours
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- The Mark Twain House and Museum– Hartford
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- The Trouble Begins:” How Nook Farm Came to Be,” Caitlyn Oberndorfer
- Graveyard Shift Ghost Tours
- Introduction to Personal Storytelling with Terry Wolfisch Cole
- Mark My Words: Jarrett J. Krosoczka
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- Noah Webster House – West Hartford
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- D is for Dictionary Day
- The Three Tenors: Poetry Read-In with David Capella, Dennis Barone, Tony Fusco, and Maria Sassi
- Screening of the Documentary “Dawnland”, Q&A Session with Christopher Newall, Senior Advisor to the Film
- West Hartford Hauntings: 14th Annual Cemetery Tours
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District of Columbia
- Frederick Douglass National Historic Site
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- Community Day at the National Historic Site: Hands-on activities, games, local exhibitors, and live entertainment
- Exploring Frederick Douglass as a 19th Century Civil Rights Activist at National Archives William G. McGowan Theater
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Florida
- Laura (Riding) Jackson Foundation – Vero Beach
- Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Historic State Park – Cross Creek
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- House Tours Resume on October 4
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Georgia
- The Georgia Writers Museum (Chandler, O’Connor, Walker) – Eatonton
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- Writer’s Studio Classes, “The Power of Your Story: Find It, Own It, Use It”
- Murder Mystery Dinner Theatre at Eatonton Cotton Warehouse
- Flannery O’Connor Book Club: “The Enduring Chill”
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- The Wren’s Nest (Joel Chandler Harris) – Atlanta
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- Beyond Books: “GCDD Storytelling Project, Stories & Images of People with Developmental Disabilities in Georgia with Shannon Turner & Lynsey Weatherspoon
- NEVERMORE: The Edgar A Poe Experience (October 17-31)
- Brer Rabbit Blues & Barbeque
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- Margaret Mitchell House – Atlanta
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- A Hard Rain: America in the 1960’s, Our Decade of Hope, Possibility & Innocence Lost, Frye Gaillard
- Unladylike: A Field Guide to Smashing the Patriarchy & Claiming Your Space, Cristen Conger & Caroline Ervin
- Fall Yoga Series: A Morning of Mindfulness, Yoga and Meditation
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- Andalusia Farm (Flannery O’Connor) – Milledgeville
- Soboroff Typewriter Exhibit (Typewriters from many literary notables)
Hawaii
- The Merwin Conservancy – Haiku, Maui
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- Open Garden Day in the Merwin Palm Forest
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Illinois
- Ernest Hemingway Foundation of Oak Park – Oak Park
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- Hemingway’s Ernest Book Club, The Dangerous Summer, with David Berner
- Friday At Hemingway’s with Cara Schlecker, Violinist
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- Vachel Lindsay Home State Historic Site – Springfield
- Carl Sandburg State Historic Site – Galesburg
Indiana
- Nelson Algren Museum of Miller Beach – Miller Beach
- Center for Ray Bradbury Studies – Indianapolis
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- Rufus & Louise Reiberg Reading Series at IUPUI: Dan Chaon, author of Ill Will
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- Gene Stratton-Porter State Historic Site – Rome City
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- Fall Garden Work Day
- Owl-oween
- The Big Sit! (Annual International Non-Competitive Birding Event)
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- Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library – Indianapolis
- James Whitcomb Riley Museum Home – Indianapolis
- Laura Ingalls Park and Museum – Burr Oak
Louisiana
Maine
- Sarah Orne Jewett House Museum and Visitor Center – South Berwick
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- “A Writer’s Circle” Writers Group, Facilitated by Brian Evans-Jones
- Saturday Hook-Ins (Hooking Rugs)
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- Wadsworth-Longfellow House & Garden – Portland
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- Beer in the Garden, “Mourning Rituals”
- Longfellow’s Haunted House 2018 (Adult and Family Tours) with James Horrigan, Registration required
- Beer in the Garden, “Mourning Rituals”
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Maryland
- Poe Baltimore – Baltimore
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- International Edgar Allan Poe Festival & Awards
- Two Days of Books, Art & Music
- Black Cat Ball
- International Edgar Allan Poe Festival & Awards
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Massachusetts
- Louisa May Alcott’s Orchard House – Concord
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- Welcome to our Home Monthly Living History Tour
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- William Cullen Bryant Homestead – Cummington
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- Garden to Table: Seasonal Cooking from the Kitchen Garden
- William Cullen Bryant, Poet, Editor & Conservationist
- Living History and Performance Tour: A Fiery & Still Voice
- Dinner in the Barn: Farm to Table Meal with Wheelhouse and The Trustees
- Mystery Theatre with Magician Melies
- Homestead Haunted House (Family Fun)
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- Emily Dickinson Museum: The Homestead and The Evergreens– Amherst
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- Digging at the Dickinsons’: Findings from the 2018 Field School in Historic Archaeology
- “Before You Became Improbable” (Theatrical Journey through Amherst)
- Emily Dickinson Poetry Discussion Group
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- Concord Museum (Ralph Waldo Emerson and Henry David Thoreau) – Concord
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- “Open Violation of Honor: Concord, Lexington and the Ethics of the Revolutionary War, “ Craig Bruce Smith
- Collection Spotlight on Archaeology; Hands on Archaeology
- Member Meet-up Series: “Spiritualism and the Concord Authors” in the Old Manse attic
- Wright Tavern History Festival
- Autumn Night at Wright Tavern with John Holl, author of author of Drink Beer, Think Beer: Getting to the Bottom of Every Pint
- Sleepy Hallow-een Tour Through Sleepy Hollow Cemetery
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- The Old Manse (Ralph Waldo Emerson and Nathaniel Hawthorne) – Concord
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- Home to Two Revolutions
- Landscape Walk
- Highlights of the Old Manse
- Creative Lives, Artistic Passion: Women of the Old Manse
- Rooted in the Land: Outdoor Exploration of the Old Manse
- Columbus Day Reenactors
- Columbus Day Free Day for Middlesex County Residents
- Fall Nature Journalism Workshop
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- Edward Gorey House – Yarmouth Port
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- 2018 All-Ages Envelope Art Contest – Deadline Friday October 26
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- The House of the Seven Gables (Nathaniel Hawthorne) – Salem
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- Living History Lab – October 28
- “Deliver Us from Evil: Counter-magic in Early New England,” Emerson W. Baker
- “Spirits of The Gables” and “Legacy of the Hanging Judge” Performances
- 17th Century Saturdays – October
- The Colonial Kitchen: Food without Fire
- Wicked Wednesdays at The Gables: Great Salem Pumpkin Walk
- Ben Wickey’s “The House of The Seven Gables,” and “The Homecoming,” Animated Shorts followed by Q&A
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- Longfellow House – Washington’s Headquarters National Historic Site – Cambridge
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- Neighborhood Walking Tours of Historic Cambridge
- Longfellow, Poe & the “Little Longfellow War”
- James M. Shea Lecture: The Longfellow Fine Arts Collection
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- Herman Melville’s Arrowhead – Pittsfield
- Thoreau Farm – Concord
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- “Transcendentalists, Abolitionists, John Brown and Beyond: How New England Writers Made John Brown a Hero,” Richard Smith, Historian
- What Would Henry Do?, Panel of Thoreauvian Essayists, Newbury Court, Auditorium
- Author Discussion: From Crisis to Calm: A Practical Guide to Family Dementia Trouble, Dr. Deborah Bier
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- The Mount (Edith Wharton) – Lenox
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- True Conversations with Heidi Pitlor and Paula McClain, “What It Means to Be a Fiction Writer Today”
- Ghost Tours and Backstairs Tour
- Berkshire Coaching at The Mount
- Discussion of Slipper with author Hester Velmans and Matt Tannenbaum
- SculptureNow Artist-Guided Tour
- First Annual Halloween Dog Parade
- Halloween Ghost Tour
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- Whittier Birthplace – Haverhill
Michigan
- Theodore Roethke House – Saginaw
Minnesota
- Laura Ingalls Wilder Museum – Walnut Grove
Mississippi
- William Faulkner’s Rowan Oak – Oxford
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- Harvest Supper & Auction
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- Margaret Walker Center – Jackson
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- Book talk and signing: Heavy: An American Memoir, Kiese Laymon
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- Eudora Welty House and Garden – Jackson
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- Austen Film Series in the Welty Garden: “Belle,” (Based on characters from Mansfield Park) and “Austenland”
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Missouri
- Laura Ingalls Wilder Historic Home and Museum – Mansfield
- Mark Twain Boyhood Home – Hannibal
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- Live Mark Twain Performances by Actor Jim Waddell, “The Inspiration for Tom Sawyer”
- Tom & Becky Quilt Raffle at Annual Folk Festival Weekend
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Nebraska
- The Willa Cather Foundation – Red Cloud
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- Celebration of 100th Anniversary of My Ántonia
- Discussion of Adapting the Novel for a 1995 TV movie, with screenwriter and producer Victoria Riskin, Cather scholar Dr. Charles Johanningsmeier & Willa Cather Foundation Executive Director Ashley Olson
- Willa Cather Celebration Weekend, “Willa Cather’s Spirit Lives On,” in Jaffrey, New Hampshire
- “Of Sound Mind and Body,” Murder Mystery Theatre in the Opera House
- Celebration of 100th Anniversary of My Ántonia
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- John G. Neihardt State Historical Site – Bancroft
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- Sunday at the Museum: An afternoon with Nebraska State Poet, Twyla Hansen
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New Hampshire
- Robert Frost Farm – Derry
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- Hyla Brook Reading Series: Marilyn Nelson, Chancellor of the Academy of American Poets and Poet-in-Residence of the Cathedral of St. John the Divine Followed by Open Mike
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New York
- Washington Irving’s Sunnyside – Pocantico Hills
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- The Great Jack O Lantern Blaze
- Horsemen’s Hollow
- Irving’s “Legend”
- Home of the “Legend
- Premiere of “The Unsilent Picture”
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- Edna St. Vincent Millay Society at Steepletop – Austerlitz
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- “The Millay Sisters Cabaret” – Special Performance direct from Off-Broadway
- Special Behind the Scenes Tour by appointment
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- Walt Whitman Birthplace State Historic Site and Interpretive Center – Huntington Station
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- Literature Compassion and Health Care Reading Series 2018 with Jack Coulehan, MD (5 Sessions): Overview: How can we best understand the experience of illness and suffering
- Eighth Signature Series: Open Mic, Walking with Whitman: Poetry in Performance with Tom Pickert, Elaine Equi (2 separate sessions)
- The American Poetry Festival of New York 2018
- “Brooklyn Bridge: Path Through History,” Viewing of Ken Burn’s Documentary (Children’s Activities Available)
- Favorite Poem Project with Legislator Susan Bertrand focusing on poems by, for and about Women
- Halloween Family Day with Magic Mike
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North Carolina
- Carl Sandburg Home National Historic Site – Flat Rock
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- No Tours available October 1-5, due to moving-in of Sandberg Family’s Furniture
- Happy 50th Anniversary Celebration
- Live reading from Sandburg’s The People
- “Reflections on the last 50 years of preserving Sandburg’s legacy,” with Poets Glennis Redmond and Kimberly Simms Gibbs
- Music by Grammy Award-winner Dan Zanes
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- Thomas Wolfe Memorial – Asheville
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- Thomas Wolfe 118th Birthday Celebration
- Look Homeward Angel Riverside Cemetery Tour
- Meet visitors from 1918. Free tours for NC residents, book sale, children’s crafts, and birthday cake
- Thomas Wolfe 118th Birthday Celebration
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Ohio
- Paul Laurence Dunbar House – Dayton
- Harriet Beecher Stowe House – Cincinnati
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- “To Give It All to the Cause: The Beecher Family and the Civil War” Exhibit (through November 18)
- Visiting Uncle Tom’s Cabin, “Haunting Harriet”
- “Patrons & Poltroons,” An Amazing Presentation
- Semi-Colon Club: Loves of Harriet Beecher Stowe by Philip McFarland
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- Thurber House – Columbus
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- Evenings with Authors
- Eileen McNamara, Pulitzer Prize Winning Reporter of The Boston Globe for coverage of Catholic Church Sex Abuse Scandal, Eunice: the Kennedy Who Changed the World
- Becket, Anne Rice Scholar and Compiler of The Vampire Chronicles of Anne Rice: An Alphabettery. From A(kasha) to Z(enobia)
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Oklahoma
- Will Rogers Memorial Museum – Claremore
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- Night at the Claremore Museums with Historic Scavenger Hunt
- Family Day at the Birthplace Ranch – Chuck Wagon Cooking Lesson
- Halloween Night at the Museum
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- Sequoyah’s Cabin – Sallisaw
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- The Saltworks of Sequoyah Exhibit (Through January 2019)
- Moccasin Making Class
- Annual Cherokee Art Market in Tulsa
- Fall Break Make & Take (Cultural Crafts for Kids)
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- Woody Guthrie Center – Tulsa
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- Awarding of “Changing World Prize,” (Based on Woody Guthrie’s Song, “Changing World”) to Clara Luper and the 13 youth who participated in the Oklahoma City sit-ins 60 years ago this month
- *“No One Else Could Play That Tune: The Making & Unmaking of Bob Dylan’s 1974 Masterpiece,” by Clinton Heylin, Dylan Biographer
- *In Concert*: Greg Jacobs, Monica Taylor & Randy Pease; *Jackie Vinson; *Vance Gilbert
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Pennsylvania
- Pearl S. Buck House – Perkasie
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- Memoir Writing with Linda Wisniewski
- Living the Legacy Breakfast
- The Century of Immigration, 1820-1924: New York: A Documentary Film Episode 4, “The Power and the People” by Ric Burns
- Book Discussion Group: Pearl’s Oriental Cookbook, Facilitated by Cindy Louden
- Volunteer Orientation
- Ghost Tours
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- The John Updike Childhood Home – Shillington
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- Opening Goal – October 2020
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South Carolina
- Pat Conroy Literary Center – Beaufort
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- Poetry Reading with Clifford Brooks
- “I Was Born to Be in a Library”: Pat Conroy’s Great Love of Libraries with Jonathan Haupt (Ridgeland, Kershaw, Aiken)
- The Second Low Country Book Club Convention
- Pat Conroy’s Reverence for Teaching, Jonathan Haupt (Hilton Head, Pawley’s Island)
- An Evening with Natasha Boyd, Author of The Indigo Girl (Hilton Head, SC)
- OLLI Class, Pat Conroy as Lifelong Learner, Jonathan Haupt (also Hilton Head)
- Pat Conroy’s Great Love of Poetry, Jonathan Haupt (Pawley’s Island)
- Our Prince of Scribes Moveable Feast (Georgetown)
- 3rd Annual Pat Conroy Literary Fest
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Tennessee
Texas
- O. Henry Museum – Austin
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- *Halloween: “Journey into the Beyond! A History of Spiritualism, “(ghost stories, divination, tarot readings and a performance by Austin Seance)
- *Halloween adaptation by The O. Henry Players of O. Henry’s “The Head-Hunter”
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Virginia
- Poe Museum – Richmond
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- October Summer Sunday Readings
- Fancy Me Mad! At St. John’s Church (Graveyard Tour followed by Tales from Mr. Poe Himself)
- October Unhappy Hour (Fun for the entire Family)
- Annual Poe’s Pumpkin Patch in the historic Enchanted Garden
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West Virginia
- Pearl S. Buck Birthplace – Hillsboro
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- Huntersville Traditions Day
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Wisconsin
- Hamlin Garland Homestead – West Salem
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- Halloween
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