Nevada Humanities

2008 Chautauqua Schedule

Evening Performance Schedule

Music starts at 6pm, performances at 7pm each evening

Sunday, June 22:
Performance: An evening of Young Chautauqua: Battle Born-1840- 1900, Civil War,
Statehood, Westward Expansion. Free event.
Music: Biggest Little Bluegrass Band

Monday, June 23:
Performance: Frederick Douglass (Charles Pace) and Anna Ella Carroll (Nicole Piechocki)
Music: Second Baptist Church Choir

Tuesday, June 24:
Performance: Mary Todd Lincoln (Selene Phillips) and Jefferson Davis (Doug Mishler).
Music: Chris and Danita Bayer-Light and Airy, Celtic tunes on fiddle and whistle

Wednesday, June 25:
Performance:Ulysses S. Grant (Frank Mullen) and Jesse Benton Frémont.
Music: Great Basin Brass Quintet

Thursday, June 26:
Performance: John Hay (Clay Jenkinson).
Music: Shiloh

Free Community Events

• Young Chautauqua Performances
  Monday- Thursday, 9:30 a.m.-12:30 p.m.
  Robert Z. Hawkins Amphitheater, Bartley Ranch Regional Park
• Coffee with the Chautauquans
  Tuesday-Friday, 7:30-9 a.m.
  Sundance Bookstore
  1155 West Fourth Street, Reno, Nevada 
• Movies with Chautauquans, 1 p.m.
  Tuesday: The Red Badge of Courage
  South Valleys Library, moderated by Frank Mullen (Gen. Grant)
  Wednesday: Abe Lincoln in Illinois
  Sparks Library, moderated by Selene Phillips (Mary Todd Lincoln)
  Thursday: Glory
  Northwest Reno Library, moderated by Charles Pace (Frederick Douglass)
• Community Forums with Clay Jenkinson, 1 p.m.
  Truckee Meadows Community College- Sierra Bldg., Rm. 108
  Tuesday: Lincoln and the West
  Wednesday: Lincoln and Politics
  Thursday: The American Solider: From the Civil War to Iraq

Exhibits during the month of June

• Bethel African American Cultural Center Docent Tours- 220 Bell St, Reno
  Wednesday, Thursday, and Saturday, Noon to 3:00 p.m.
• Frederick Douglass from Slavery to Freedom: the Journey to New York City
• Black Nevadans