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The Lewis show will take place Thursday, Sept. They were so popular, traveling shows - including one on a boat - crisscrossed the country offering the same kind of program.ĭelaware’s shows have been running for 24 years, originally sponsored by Delaware Humanities and taken over in 2008 by the Delaware Division of Historical and Cultural Affairs.Ĭultural affairs had planned to expand upstate in 2020, but the COVID-19 pandemic intervened. Chautauqua historyĬhautauqua tent shows began in the late 1800s at Lake Chautauqua in upstate New York, providing lectures and entertainment for adults. Cole will perform songs of the Underground Railroad in the Chautauqua tent show in Lewes. Warner believes the World War II event was popular because so many people could relate to World War II having been alive then, or having grandparents or great-grandparents who served in the war. Shows focused on World War I and the War of 1812 bombed, but shows organized around the Civil War and World War II drew big audiences. It’s supposed to include everyone,” said Chautauqua coordinator Bridget Warner.

Cole singing songs of the Underground Railroad an all-women string orchestra lectures about Rosedale, a Delaware beach for Black families the Happy Day Club, a Black social club radio’s “Amos and Andy Show ” the history of comics and Jimi Hendrix. With a theme this year of “That’s Entertainment,” it will include actors portraying Annie Oakley, Buffalo Bill and Icabod Crane Linda Harris and David B.

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She got a lot of joy out of hunting.”Ī mix of education and entertainment, the Chautauqua tent show is free and features a noon-to-early evening series of performances and lectures each day. “In particular, she wanted women to be able to handle firearms, to not be afraid of them,” Hanley said, “for their self defense, home defense and homeland defense, but also just for the joy of it. Oakley not only appeared in Wild West Shows, but wanted to educate women about firearms, Hanley said. “Oh, no,” says Kim Hanley of the American Historical Theatre in Philadelphia.

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Sharpshooter Annie Oakley is headed to Historic New Castle as part of Delaware’s annual Chautauqua tent show, which for the first time will offer a full slate of live performances upstate in addition to the traditional Lewes site.īut don’t expect Annie to shoot up either place. Kim Hanley will portray sharpshooter Annie Oakley.

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