The NAHS annual dinner meeting will be held Thursday, April 18 at the American Legion August Mauer Post, 200 E. Union Street.
Social hour will begin at 6:00 with dinner at 7:00. Tickets for the dinner will be $35/person. Dinner will be a buffet which includes Chicken French, Roast Beef au jus, Tortellini Primavera, Scalloped Potatoes, Green Beans w/Craisins, tossed salad, bread and butter and cake.
Please RSVP by April 12 either by sending payment to N-AHS, 120 High Street, or you can pay at the door by calling 315-331-6409 and letting Chris know how many are attending. We will have a short business meeting after dinner to elect officers, trustees, and a nominating committee.
You will not want to miss this year’s program. We are very pleased to have folklorists and musicians Jim Kimball and Karen Canning with us. Mr. Kimball plays fiddle, button accordion, keyboard, musical saw, jaw harp and bones. He is a favorite performer at the Farmer’s Museum in Cooperstown and Genesee Country Museum in Mumford, where he specializes in 19th century popular and folk music traditions.
Mr. Kimball is a noted ethnomusicologist, who teaches music history, world music and classes on American folk music at SUNY Geneseo. He is also the director of the Geneseo String Band.
Hope to see you all there!
Describing her program Cindy said: “Dick, Jane, their family, friends and pets were part of growing up for over 85 million people who learned to read from the 1930s through the 1960s. They remain just about the only characters in the history of American primary education whose names have become household words. The primers that made these characters familiar to almost everyone have come to represent mid-century American culture, as well as collectors’ items. The program will be a nostalgic look at the history of these classic readers through the years, illustrated through the presenter’s collection of original books from the first published Dick and Jane primer in 1930 to the last multi-ethnic edition in 1965.”