Hijinks & Home
The Toledo-Lucas County Public Library presents Hijinks & Home: Camp life and the home front in the Civil War, stories told through family letters, songs and images of the time period performed by Judy Cookscheduled from 6:30-8 p.m. on Monday, July 21 in the McMaster Center at Main Library, 325 Michigan St. This is aFREE program, fun for all ages and open to the public. (The word hijinks means lively enjoyment, merrymaking, or boisterous celebration).
Photos, letters and song lyrics of the day are projected on-screen while Cook reads Civil War letters of the Claffins, a Wisconsin farm couple. Their letters were written while Gilbert Claffin served in the Union army, and his wife Esthermaintained the family farm. In costume, Cook plays tunes of the time and sings songs that were written and sung during the war.
In these songs and letters, timeless themes of joy, sorrow, humor, courage and love combine to provide fascinating insight into the soldiers’ camp and the home life of 1860s Middle America. Sung together, as folks did then, the audience is transported to the time of the Civil War through a very personal, eye-witness experience.
For more information, visit toledolibrary.org or call 419.259.5200.
This program is supported by The Library Legacy Foundation and the Toledo-Lucas County Public Library
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Organization Name: Toledo-Lucas County Public Library
Organization Address: Toledo, OH