Emily Dickinson, the Civil War, and the Assassination of President Lincoln
Sunday, June 15,
2 p.m.
Writer and lecturer John Shoptaw
On Emily Dickinson Museum grounds.
Free and open to the public.
Shoptaw's program will focus on Dickinson's poetics during the Civil
War, reading poems in light of the war, the struggle for abolition, and
Lincoln's assassination.
Earlier this
spring the Emily Dickinson Museum began to explore Dickinson's
relationship to the Civil War when lecturer Anne Flick led the Museum's
poetry discussion group through a series of Dickinson poems that relate
to the conflict.
Shoptaw is the librettist for the new opera "Our
American Cousin," which will have its fully-staged world premiere in
Northampton on Friday, June 20. The three-act opera presents the events
of Abraham Lincoln's assassination in April 1865 from the perspective
of the people who were at Ford's Theatre that night.
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THE ART AND PRACTICE OF FLOWER ARRANGING
 Saturday, June 21, 2008
2-4 p.m.
Leader: Nan Wolverton
Amherst Woman's Club
Triangle Street
Fee: $15 in advance,
$18 at the door.
Space is limited, advanced registration recommended. 413-542-2034
Susan Dickinson, Emily Dickinson's sister-in-law, was an award-winning
flower arranger. In honor of her skills, the Emily Dickinson Museum is
pleased to offer this workshop. Participants will learn about the art
and popularity of flower arranging in nineteenth-century America and
will create their own Victorian arrangements to take home. Materials and flowers will be
provided, but participants are welcome to bring flowers from their own
gardens.
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