Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2008 11:52:36 -0800 (PST) From: TRACES <buseumtour@yahoo.com> Subject: Held in the Heartland Spring Tour discount offered from TRACES museum Message-ID: <879522.1024.qm@web52310.mail.re2.yahoo.com>
[Mindful of the nation's growing economic crisis, we are offering a DISCOUN
TED exhibit rate (10%) for institutions that book a spring-'09 showing befo
re New Year's Eve 2009.]
Comming to Iowa late April early May and in early June 2009
BUS-eum 3, a new traveling TRACES exhibit, featuring
HELD IN THE HEARTLAND:
German POWs in the Midwest, 1943-46
(for BUS and interior-panel images, see http://www.traces.org/Buseum_3_tour
/buseum_3.html)
TRACES brings this story to life in its BUS-eum 3, a school bus conve
rted into a mobile museum/classroom. The exhibits consists of narrative pan
els illustrated with photographs and documents, audio-DVD documentaries (se
e http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WRfSHgdh2UA), artifacts and more. With o
ur traveling exhibits, TRACES reaches tens of thousands of people in hund
reds of Midwest communities.
TRACES is committed to bringing valuable, timely and educational exhibits t
o libraries, schools and museums and does so at lowest costs possible. Due
to increased costs in fuel, past hosts may notice prices have been modestly
increased; however, subtract 10% of the below fees IF your organization
signs up by New Years Day for the spring 2009 tour:
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 arrangem
ents. Please contact TRACES staff for details. We are also encouraging host
s to have an indoor program(coffee-cookies)along with the bus and invite th
e public to come and tell their stories of any interactions they may have h
ad with the POW's and to bring any artifacts they may have; the German POWs
in specific were prolific artists and wood carvers.
BACKGROUND of BUS 3's exhibit:
During WWII the Midwest housed about 250 prisoner of war camps (your commun
ity 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 perp
etrators and victims of dictatorial governments and state-sponsored violenc
e, POW experiences on all sides embody ageless, timely themes of war and pe
ace, justice under arms, issues of human rights, and the reconciliation of
past and avoidance of future conflicts.
German POWs held in Army-operated camps across the U.S. were sent out to ha
rvest or process crops, build roads and waterways, fell trees, roof barns,
erect silos, work in light non-military industry, lay city sewers and const
ruct tract housing, wash U.S. Army laundry and do other practical wartime t
asks. 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;so
me had relatives or former neighbors among them. In the process, they forme
d significant, often decades-long friendships with "the enemy" and underwen
t changes as individuals and as a group, thus influencing postwar German va
lues and institutions, and American-German relations. Some POWs even immigr
ated to the U.S.
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 BUSeumt
our@yahoo.com or calling 651.646.0400.
Thank you so much!
Michael Luick-Thrams, Ex. Dir., and
Irving Kellman, BUS driver and docent
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
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