Civil War comes to life for kids, and adults, at Ohio Chautauqua in Lakewood

Written by admin on June 30, 2011 – 8:19 pm

LAKEWOOD, Ohio — Introduce your kids to the Civil War in a way that won’t put them to sleep during five days of free programs at Ohio Chautauqua 2011 here.

Bring a chair and look for the red-and-white-striped tent at Lakewood Park for cool Civil War-themed music and first-person programs. All programs are free.

The first-person programs begin at 7 p.m. in Lakewood Park. Here’s the lineup: President Abraham Lincoln (Sunday, June 26); surgeon, POW and Congressional Medal of Honor recipient Mary Edwards Walker (Friday, June 24); physician, journalist, explorer and highest-ranking African-American Union soldier Maj. Martin Delany (Saturday, June 25); Confederate socialite and abolitionist Mary Boykin Chesnut (Thursday, June 23); and Union soldier and Underground Railroad conductor Harriet Tubman (Wednesday, June 22).

Each evening begins at 6 p.m. with an hour of music by Lakewood students. Musicians include Vive L’Four barbershop quartet, Lakewood High School String Quartet, Gary Rice on banjo and saw, Frank Blackman singing, Horace Mann Elementary choir, Julie Tabaj on concertina and Duncan Virostko on violin.

And the daily kids programming at the Beck Center for the Arts (beginning at 10 a.m.), and brown bag lunches and movies (including Shirley Temple’s “The Littlest Rebel”) at the Lakewood Public Library, are all available on the Lakewood Historical Society’s website.

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