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SUMMARY:Exhibit—Becoming the United States
DESCRIPTION:Colonial America to Reconstruction\nMay 5–June 26\nJohn Edward Smith Gallery (Kemin Cultivation Center)\nIncluded with General Admission\nIntroduce upper elementary-age students to the beginnings of American history and the skills involved in primary source analysis. Explore individuals\, groups\, and documents that have contributed to who we are as a country\, and encourage students to think critically about the firsthand accounts of this era. \nOn loan from The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
URL:https://www.lhf.org/event/exhibit-becoming-the-united-states/
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SUMMARY:Exhibit—Freedom: A History of US
DESCRIPTION:Our changing ideas from the founders to Obama’s election\nMay 12–June 5\nJohn Edward Smith Gallery (Kemin Cultivation Center)\nIncluded with General Admission\nSince 1776\, when the United States declared independence from Great Britain\, the idea of freedom and our understanding of its implications have changed dramatically. This exhibit traces the evolving concept of freedom from the founding era to the election of Barack Obama. Among the highlights are a rare 1776 printing of the Declaration of Independence\, a printed draft and the official copy of the U.S. Constitution\, Lincoln’s handwritten notes for speeches\, and letters by leading figures such as Frederick Douglass\, Susan B. Anthony\, Martin Luther King Jr.\, and more. \nOn loan from The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History
URL:https://www.lhf.org/event/exhibit-freedom-a-history-of-us/
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SUMMARY:Emancipation Day + Election Day
DESCRIPTION:PLUS … Slice of History and Historic Baseball\n\n\n\nJune 13 • 9 a.m.-4 p.m. • All activities included with General Admission\n\nToday is a day to explore civil rights and civic engagement in Iowa’s history. We entered the Union in 1846 as a free state\, but our history of rights for African-Americans is much more complicated. The path to rights for women has not been smooth\, either. Step back into 1876 and explore who had rights such as voting and owning land 150 years ago. \nSCHEDULE\nAll day:\n• Use our family worksheet to dive into the history of Black Iowans\, from before statehood through the Civil War and landmark civil rights cases\, as you visit our sites.\n• Cast your vote for mayor of Walnut Hill at the Kemin Cultivation Center.\n• Watch printing of the Gettysburg Address at the Advocate Print Shop and learn about the power of the press in politics. \n10 a.m.–2p.m.: Make your own campaign button at the Kemin Cultivation Center. \n11:30 a.m.: Slice of History at the MidAmerican Energy Foundation Pavilion. Celebrate Iowa Museum Week with free pizza while it lasts! \nNoon: A temperance rally turns into a mayoral debate at the Church of the Land. \n1 p.m.: A polite tea turns into a suffrage debate at the Flynn Mansion. \n3:30 p.m.: Historic Baseball on the Front Lawn. Free to the public! Bring a chair or a blanket. \n 
URL:https://www.lhf.org/event/emancipation-day/
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SUMMARY:Exhibit—The State of Water
DESCRIPTION:Our Most Valuable Resource\nJune 16–July 24\nJohn Edward Smith Gallery (Kemin Cultivation Center)\nIncluded with General Admission\nOnly 0.007 percent of the planet’s water is available to fuel and feed its 8 billion people. Brad Temkin’s photography puts visitors face-to-face with the systems and techniques that deliver our most valuable natural resource. In doing so\, the exhibition encourages us to see water conservation as a process we can all get involved in. \nWater stands as the most important chemical compound used by humans daily\, and polling shows many Americans care deeply about water quality. But despite highly visible water crises—like the high lead levels in Flint\, Michigan\, and scarcity within the Navajo Nation—the quality and safety of drinking water often are taken for granted. It comes out of a faucet or a fountain\, initiated by an easy turn of the knob or push of a button. In truth\, that water has taken a much longer and complicated journey to reach us\, having traveled through a vast network of systems that most of us will never see. \nIn The State of Water: Our Most Valuable Resource\, Guggenheim award-winning photographer Brad Temkin continues his longstanding attention to our relationship with nature—how we appreciate and accommodate it\, and how it accommodates us. Temkin’s pictures celebrate ideas in water and wastewater engineering design\, showing the inventiveness in architecture and infrastructure necessary to meet our needs and to accommodate nature. \nA Program of ExhibitsUSA\, a national division of Mid-America Arts Alliance\nand The National Endowment for the Arts\n\n—PRESENTING SPONSOR—
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SUMMARY:Pioneer Wedding
DESCRIPTION:Here comes the bride … but she’s not dressed in white!\n\n\n\n\nSaturday\, June 27\n11:30 a.m. at the 1850 Pioneer Farm\nPlease allow at least a half-hour for the tractor cart ride from the Visitor Center to the farm site \nIncluded with General Admission\nLearn how much a wedding on the frontier differed from ceremonies today. The 1850 Pioneer Farm interpreters will re-create a wedding ceremony\, and afterward you can enjoy music and dancing to celebrate the “newlyweds.” \n  \n 
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