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2020 SCHEDULE 
Chautauqua Series
"Spend an
Evening With......."
Living History Performances

All productions are presented on Thursdays. Always on the last Thursday with additional weeks depending on schedule

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7:00 p.m.

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The Grand Hotel
12 Public Square
Lower Level
Mount Vernon, OH 43050
Parking available in Hotel Parking lot

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COST - DONATION BASIS

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This program is helped to be made possible by a grant from the Ariel Foundation.

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Sponsored by

www.mountvernongrand.com

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Jan 16 – Aaron Burr (Ken Hammontree) - Burr shot his political rival Alexander Hamilton in a famous duel in 1804, the last full year of his single term as vice president.
No Opener

Feb 13 – Dr. Jane Payne (Julia Geiger) - Payne always held an interest in medicine and apprenticed with Mount Vernon’s Dr. J.W. Russell. She graduated from Woman’s Medical College in Philadelphia in 1861 as valedictorian of her class. Payne returned to Mount Vernon to begin her practice.
Opener - Bill Miller

Feb 27 – Tecumseh (Ken Hammontree) - was a Native American Shawnee warrior and chief, who became the primary leader of a large, multi-tribal confederacy in the early 19th century. Born in the Ohio Country (present-day Ohio).
Opener – Christina of the Colonies (Chris Petee)

CANCELED! Mar 12 – Major Cushman (Valerie Hamill) - Pauline Cushman was an American actress and a spy for the Union Army during the American Civil War. She is considered one of the most successful Civil War spies
Opener - FolkTails (Mike and Chris Petee)

CANCELED! Mar 26 – The Carter Family (Steve and Lisa Ball) - The Carter Family is a traditional American folk music group that recorded between 1927 and 1956. Their music had a profound impact on bluegrass, country, Southern Gospel, pop and rock musicians on the U.S. folk revival of the 1960s.
Opener - Joe Rollin Porter

CANCELED!Apr 16 – Shirley Temple Black (Tammy Souhrada) – actress, singer, dancer, businesswoman, and diplomat who was Hollywood's number one box-office draw as a child actress from 1935 to 1938. As an adult, she was named United States ambassador to Ghana and to Czechoslovakia, and also served as Chief of Protocol of the United States.
Opener - Zac & Katie Sherman

CANCELED!Apr 30 – Woodstock Revisited (Mike Petee, Jeff Putnam, Bill Carpenter) - Woodstock was a music festival held August 15–18, 1969, on Max Yasgur's dairy farm in Bethel, New York, 40 miles southwest of Woodstock. Billed as "an Aquarian Exposition: 3 Days of Peace & Music" and alternatively referred to as the Bethel Rock Festival, it attracted an audience of more than 400,000.
No Opener!

CANCELED!May 14 –Peter Lorre (Leeman Kessler) - Peter Lorre was a Hungarian-born American character actor of Jewish descent. Lorre began his stage career in Vienna before moving to Germany where he worked first on the stage, then in film in Berlin in the late 1920s and early 1930s
Opener – Collin Kightlinger

CANCELED!May 28 – Elizabeth Cady Stanton (Susan Kahrl) - Elizabeth Cady Stanton was an American suffragette, social activist, abolitionist, and leading figure of the early women's rights movement.
Opener - The Chapeux

June 11 – D Day Girls - the spies who armed the Resistance, sabotaged the Nazis and helped win WWII (Chris Petee) - The dramatic, untold true story of the extraordinary women recruited by Britain’s elite spy agency to help pave the way for Allied victory in World War II
Opener – Mount Vernon Players - 1940’s Radio Show

June 25 – Greenwich Village: Cradle of the '60s Folk Revival (Jeff Putnam) - Greenwich Village came to be at the epicenter of an American folk music revival between 1950 and 1965.
No Opener!

July 2 – John Quincy Adams (Greg Patterson) John Quincy Adams was an American statesman, diplomat, lawyer, and diarist who served as the sixth president of the United States from 1825 to 1829.
Opener - Tim Noble

July 16 – Neil Armstrong (Jim Stoner) - Neil Alden Armstrong was an American astronaut and aeronautical engineer and the first person to walk on the Moon. He was also a naval aviator, test pilot, and university professor.
Opener - Bob Ford

July 30 –Tribute to Dr. Annette Jefferson – An amazing woman who presented many characters at the Chautauqua’s including Sojourner Truth, Harriet Tubman, Rosa Parks, Ethel Waters. Sadly she passed in 2019 – she will be missed and this is a chance to honor her memory.
Opener - Peter, Paul & Mary (Jeff Putnam, Mike Petee, Chris Petee)

Aug 13 – Middle School Students History Day Projects

Aug 27 – Jackie Kennedy (Mary Spence) - Jacqueline Lee Kennedy Onassis was First Lady of the United States during the presidency of John F. Kennedy and was regarded then and afterward as an international icon of style and culture.
Opener - Lowell Borchers

Sept 10 – Amelia Earhart (Amy K. Stoner) - Amelia Mary Earhart was an American aviation pioneer and author. Earhart was the first female aviator to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. She set many other records, wrote best-selling books about her flying experiences.
Opener - Joe Rollin Porter

Sept 24 – Phillis Wheatley (Sandra Quick) - was the first African-American woman to publish a book of poetry. Born in West Africa, sold into slavery at the age of seven and met George Washington in the White House.
Opener – Bob Ford

Oct 8 – James Garfield and the United States Government* (Benjamin Frayser) - * denotes a program which can be made to be appropriate for children/young adults studying American History, Citizenship, or Government. Serving two years in the state legislature, 18 more in Congress, a Senator-elect, and President; makes for a remarkable resume to explain how, and why, the government of the United States works as it does.
Opener - FolkTails

Oct 22 – Jane Austen (Raylene Hlavaty) - Jane Austen was an English novelist known primarily for her six major novels, which interpret, critique and comment upon the British landed gentry at the end of the 18th century.
Opener - Meg Litteral

Nov 5 – Roy Rogers/Dale Evans (Jim & Amy K. Stoner) - From 1951-57, Evans and Rogers starred in the highly successful television series The Roy Rogers Show, in which they continued their cowboy and cowgirl roles, with her riding her trusty buckskin horse, Buttermilk.
No Opener

Nov 19 – Red Skelton (Ken Barnett) – Red Skelton professionally known as Red Skelton was an American comedy entertainer and mime. He was best known for his national radio and television shows between 1937 and 1971
Opener – Mount Vernon Players - 1940’s Radio Show

Dec – FOOD FOR THE HUNGRY CONCERT - Date TBA