The Growing Seasons Traveling Exhibit began a new three-year tour in the Kansas City area at the Johnson County Museums from August through October 2007.
January through June 2008 at the Boulder History Museum.
Boulder History Museum
Harbeck Bergheim House
1206 Euclid Avenue
Boulder, Colorado 80302
303 449-3464
303 938-8322 fax
February 15, 2009 - June 28, 2009
Waukesha County Historical Society
1010 West Main
Waukesha, WI 53186
262 521-2859
This exhibit consists of all twenty-one original casein paintings from the book Growing Seasons, forty-eight pen and ink drawings and a number of vintage items from the farm where the story began that took place over a hundred years ago. A thirty-three minute continual loop DVD, with over two hundred images, has been created especially for the Growing Seasons Traveling Exhibit. A 12-panel brochure is available for each visitor. Six large display boards have been created by Smith Kramer Fine Arts Service to enhance the visitor’s experience.
Teachers visiting the exhibit are provided a CD created by Carolyn Splear Pratt and the education staff of the fine art service. Include in a PDF format are: Amusements of the Period; Communication by Mail and Telephone; Community Responsibility; Food; Inventions; Museum in the Classroom; Music of the Early 1900s; Science; the Early 1900s Farm; the One-Room School; Then and Now and Using Growing Seasons to support state-required curricula of history and fine arts. Mathematics and language skills worksheets are included.
