Subject: FW: Rick: Spring Tour Held in the Heartland Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2008 12:11:56 -0600 Message-ID: <B46BC0C8F6373F43B0A84089442FE92101826A29@MEWMAD1P0129.enterprise.wistate.us> From: "Bernstein, Rick A - WHS" <Rick.Bernstein@wisconsinhistory.org>
FYI
Rick Bernstein
Field Services-Southern Region
Wisconsin Historical Society
608 264 6583
Collecting, Preserving and Sharing Stories Since 1846
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From: TRACES [mailto:buseumtour@yahoo.com]
Sent: Thursday, December 04, 2008 12:04 PM
To: Bernstein, Rick A - WHS
Subject: Rick: Spring Tour Held in the Heartland
DISCOUNT OFFERED for SPRING-2009 PROGRAMS if booked by New Years Day!
BUS-eum 3, a new traveling TRACES exhibit, featuring
HELD IN THE HEARTLAND:
German POWs in the Midwest, 1943-46
a NEW exhibit!
(for BUS and interior-panel images, see
http://www.traces.org/Buseum_3_tour/buseum_3.html
<http://www.traces.org/Buseum_3_tour/buseum_3.html> )
During WWII the Midwest housed about 250 prisoner of war camps (your
community may have been one of them!) for tens of thousands of the
380,000 German POWs imprisoned in the United States. While Axis and
Soviet POWs were perpetrators and victims of dictatorial governments and
state-sponsored violence, POW experiences on all sides embody ageless,
timely themes of war and peace, justice under arms, issues of human
rights, and the reconciliation of past and avoidance of future
conflicts.
TRACES brings this story to life in BUS-eum 3, a 40-foot school bus
converted into a mobile museum/classroom. The exhibit consists of 13
narrative panels illustrated with photographs and documents, audio-DVD
documentaries [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRfSHgdh2UA], artifacts
and more. As with our other traveling exhibits, TRACES plans to bring
the bus to tens of thousands of people in hundreds of Midwest
communities and a dozen states.
BACKGROUND:
German POWs held in Army-operated camps across the U.S. were sent out to
harvest or process crops, build roads and waterways, fell trees, roof
barns, erect silos, work in light non-military industry, lay city sewers
and construct tract housing, wash U.S. Army laundry and do other
practical wartime tasks. With the high rate of 19th-century German
immigration to the Midwest, many of those who worked with POWs spoke to
them in their native tongue;some had relatives or former neighbors among
them. In the process, they formed significant, often decades-long
friendships with "the enemy" and underwent changes as individuals and as
a group, thus influencing postwar German values and institutions, and
American-German relations. Some POWs later even immigrated to the U.S.
TRACES is committed to bringing valuable, timely and educational
exhibits to libraries, schools and museums and does so at the lowest
cost possible to you. Due to increased costs in fuel, past hosts may
notice prices have been modestly increased.
Sliding Fee Scale for BUS-eum showings/optional scholar guest speaker:
-- 1-1,500 inhabitants: $325 for 3 hours, $525 for 7 hours
-- 1,501-5,000 inhabitants: $350 for 3 hours, $550 for 7 hours
-- 5,001-7,500 inhabitants: $375 for 3 hours, $575 for 7 hours
-- 7,501-10,000 inhabitants: $400 for 3 hours, $600 for 7 hours
-- 10,001-20,000 inhabitants: $425 for 3 hours,$650 for 7 hours
-- 20,001-30,000 inhabitants: $450 for 3 hours, $675 for 7 hours
-- 30,001-50,000 inhabitants: $475 for 3 hours, $750 for 7 hours
-- 50,001-100,000 inhabitants: $500 for 3 hours, $800 for 7 hours
-- 100,001 + inhabitants: $550 for 3 hours, $850 for 7 hours
Longer or shorter showings are possible, pro-rated per number of
additional hours; guest speakers also are available to speak, per
individual arrangements. Please contact TRACES staff for details.
TRACES would like to schedule your community's showing as soon as
possible. To make sure the bus makes it to your town book now by
e-mailing BUSeumtour@yahoo.com or calling 651.646.0400.
10% discount if booked by 1/109, downloadable poster/publicity packet at
www.TRACES.org
Thank you so much!
Michael Luick-Thrams, Ex. Dir., and Team
TRACES
Center for History and Culture
1729 Hague Ave., Suite 2
Saint Paul/Minnesota 55104 U.S.A.
land 651.646.0400 or 0790
fax 651.646.8070
Email address:
BUSeumtour@yahoo.com
Web site: www.TRACES.org <http://www.traces.org/>
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The TRACES Team
Marketing/Publicity, TRACES
Center for History and Culture
L A N D M A R K C E N T E R
75 West Fifth Street, Suite 211
Saint Paul/Minnesota 55102 U.S.A.
land 651.292.8700
fax 651.292.8702
Email address: buseumtour@yahoo.com
Web site: www.TRACES.org <http://www.traces.org/>
