by barbarah_admin | Aug 28, 2024
Assurance “The original word for repent is the Greek word ‘metanoia’ which literally means to ‘change your mind, to change direction’ and has nothing to do with guilt or shame. Harbach’s metanoia was a transformative change of heart leading to...
by barbarah_admin | Aug 28, 2024
And Ain’t I A Woman for Orchestra Harbach’s piece, And Ain’t I A Woman for Orchestra is inspired by Sojourner Truth (1797 – 1883) who was born into slavery and became an African-American abolitionist and women’s rights activist. Her famous speech, delivered...
by barbarah_admin | Aug 28, 2024
The ghetto of Terezin (Theresienstadt), located in the hills outside Prague, was an unusual concentration camp in that it was created to cover up the Nazi genocide of the Jews. Billed as the “Führer’s gift to the Jews,” this “model ghetto” was the site of a Red Cross...
by barbarah_admin | Aug 28, 2024
Pioneer Women! is a collection of four portraits of American women who helped to settle the wilds of Alaska. Taken from their diaries, letters, monographs, and journals, the texts chronicle their journeys throughout Alaska, from Skagway, the Southeastern entrance into...
by barbarah_admin | Aug 28, 2024
The incredible journey of Ellen Craft (1826-1891) and William Craft (1824-1900) tells the life story of fugitive slaves as abolitionists. They were both born and enslaved in Macon, Georgia. After traveling on a treacherous train and steamboat ride, they escaped to the...
