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Longfellow Birthday Celebration
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This talk is hosted by Mt. Auburn Cemetery and will take place in Story Chapel, 580 Mount Auburn St., Cambridge, Massachusetts.Dates & Times
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Join us at Mt. Auburn Cemetery's Story Chapel (580 Mount Auburn St.) for our annual Henry Longfellow Birthday Celebration!
This year's speaker is Dr. Adriana Greci Green, Curator of Indigenous Arts of the Americas. Green researched at Longfellow House-Washington’s Headquarters NHS in the past, focusing on Longfellow’s "The Song of Hiawatha."
Her talk, titled, "Anishinaabe Performances of Longfellow’s Hiawatha," focuses on the legacy of the poem. It was performed as a pageant by the Ojibway troupe in Ontario in the early 20th century, an event attended by members of the Longfellow family. Hundreds of shows later, this adaptation was exported to Michigan by members of the local Waganakising Odawa community. This talk will explore the histories of these events and the context in which they occurred.
The lecture will be followed by birthday cake and, weather permitting, a visit to the Longfellow family tomb.
Adriana Greci Green is curator of Indigenous Arts of the Americas at The Fralin Museum of Art at the University of Virginia and is a research collaborator in the department of anthropology at the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution. She has been privileged to work within Lakota and Anishinaabe communities exploring the contexts in which material culture, art, dress, and cultural performance are produced and circulated, both historically and today.
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