Host Cheryl Mitchell speaks with Dr. Morgan Crossman, Executive Director, Building Bright Futures. Growing Bright Futures is a joint production of Treleven, Building Bright Futures, Let’s Grow Kids, and Middlebury Community Television. Recorded 11/8/19. To learn more about Building Bright Futures: http://buildingbrightfutures.org/
The Sheldon Museum presents “The Hutchinson Family Singers: Huzzas, Horrors, and Bumps in the Night,” a talk by Dale Cockrell, a specialist in American popular music. The Hutchinson Family Singers were the best-known, most-loved, and most-hated musicians in nineteenth-century America. Their passionate commitment to talking and singing about the sisterhood of social reforms garnered them notoriety on all sides of a wide range of divides (including spiritualism). Too often overlooked, though, is that they bear a primary responsibility for the ways in which American popular music was then made, heard, and appreciated, legacies still much manifest today.
Kicking off Readathon 2019, here’s the newest music video (the 8th!), rewritten by Mary Hogan’s 6th graders to the music of “Centuries” by Fall Out Boy.
