View Map | Cost: Free At Home with Carrie Chapman Catt, Portrayed by Annette Baldwin Join Carrie Chapman Catt, founder of the League of Women Voters, at home where she has returned from Washington DC after the 19th amendment granting America women the right to vote has been signed into...
View Map | Cost: Free Rosa Parks: The First Lady of the Civil Rights Movement To kick-off the first Athens Chautauqua Festival in June, we present a Winter Chautauqua program featuring the documentary, Rosa Parks: The First Lady of the Civil Rights Movement followed by a panel discussion and reception....
View Map | Outdoor bring lawn seating | Cost: Free Ben Franklin performed by Larry Bounds Living in the Age of Enlightenment, Ben Franklin was many things: a printer, a postmaster, an ambassador, an author, a scientist, a founding father. Above all, he was an inventor, creating solutions to common...
View Map | Outdoors bring lawn seating| Cost: Free Nikola Tesla performed by Ian Ruskin Nikola Tesla has been called many things: wizard, showman, prophet, charlatan, magician, and Father of the 20th Century – perhaps even of the 21st. He was a prophet dishonored in his own time, but revered in...
View Map | Outdoors bring lawn seating| Cost: Free Ben Franklin performed by Larry Bounds Living in the Age of Enlightenment, Ben Franklin was many things: a printer, a postmaster, an ambassador, an author, a scientist, a founding father. Above all, he was an inventor, creating solutions to common problems,...
View Map | Outdoors bring lawn seating | Cost: Free Hedy Lamarr performed by Judith Kalaora Who would have believed that “The Most Beautiful Woman in the World,” Hollywood star Hedy Lamarr, was a genuine ceiling-crasher scientist whose groundbreaking invention revolutionized modern communication, and made your cell phone, GPS, and...
View Map | Outdoors, bring lawn seating | Cost: Free Nikola Tesla portrayed by Ian Ruskin Nikola Tesla has been called many things: wizard, showman, prophet, charlatan, magician, and Father of the 20th Century – perhaps even of the 21st. He was a prophet dishonored in his own time, but revered...
View Map | Outdoors, bring lawn seating | Cost: Free Hedy Lamarr performed by Judith Kalaora Who would have believed that “The Most Beautiful Woman in the World,” Hollywood star Hedy Lamarr, was a genuine ceiling-crasher scientist whose groundbreaking invention revolutionized modern communication, and made your cell phone, GPS, and...
View Map | Outdoors, bring lawn seating | Cost: Free Rosa Parks performed by Becky Stone Sometimes when the status quo needs to be shaken up, it is necessary to take a stand. Other times, one must courageously take a seat. Rosa Parks is best known for being arrested for...
Cost: Free | Registration Required Virtual Discussion with Hank Fincken (Thomas Edison) During the History Comes Alive Festival afternoons at 2:00p from Tue Sept 7 – Sat Sept 11, you can pick the brains of the historical performers. No costumes, no script, just a chance to have some personal...