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The Portrayal Format Dressed in period and character appropriate attire, George and Diane Bernheimer bring each of these people of our history into the present. Each portrayal is based on research and study of primary sources such as journals, letters, diaries and biographies of the person, their family members and contemporaries. Whenever possible, the characters own words are used in the presentation. Each character speaks of the historical, political and social setting of their era and the part they played in it. The audience is then given the opportunity to interact with the character by asking questions or engaging in dialogue while still in the time period of the character. Character is then "broken" and members of the audience have the opportunity to ask questions of the presenters concerning their research or other relevant topics. Each presentation lasts 40-50 minutes, including questions. The Reverend Thomas and Sarah Johnson
  In
1830 they arrived in what was then called the Unorganized MissouriTerritory
to establish the Shawnee Indian Mission School.
Join
them at their home on the evening of January 2, 1865 and hear them tell
of their experiences with the Mission, their family, Thomas'
involvement in Kansas Territorial politics and the era that would
lead our Nation into the Civil War.
Thomas Johnson Sarah Johnson The
Emigrants
In the Spring of 1855, they left
their home in Philadelphia to establish a
new home in the Kansas Territory. The new home would become
known to the Nation as "Bleeding Kansas" as the Pro Slave
supporters saw Kansas as, perhaps, their last opportunity to make
slavery secure. If Kansas would enter the Union as a Free
State,
the abolitionists would be emboldened. Learn of their travel
to
the Territory, why they came, where they settled and their life in this
turbulent time that
brought the Nation to Civil War.
George
Templeton Strong and Catherine Dix
 Skepticism
in 1861 had changed to praise by 1865, with the United States Sanitary
Commission recognized as the most effective relief organization the
world had seen. The Civil War has ended. Hear Mr Strong, New
York attorney and Treasurer of the
Commission and Mrs Dix of the Women's Central Association of Relief
tell the story of the Commission and it's part in preserving the Union
during our Civil War.
George Templeton Strong (Civil War Encampments) Learn
about and see how the people at home in the North supported their boys
who answered
President Lincoln's call to put down the rebellion. "A
package a
month for the boys" was the standard to show the troops that they were
loved, missed and supported. Sometimes compared with the
present
day
Red Cross and USO, those who fought with the Union and the Confederacy
were beneficiaries of this agency's service.
The Commission at Gettysburg
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