| Rossford to host Ohio workshops |
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| Written by DAVID DUPONT Sentinel Staff Writer | |
| Monday, 18 June 2012 09:17 | |
Councilman Mike Scott said that Rossford was the first applicant accepted after the city put on a full court press led by the Rossford Convention and Visitors Bureau, to snag the cultural event. Four other cities will host Chautauqua events next summer. Ohio Chautauqua will pitch a large tent in the city, either on the baseball fields in Veterans Park or on the grounds of the high school downtown, for five days of cultural workshops for children and adults, talks by scholars portraying historic figures and musical entertainment. Scott said the events typical draw 500 to 1,200 participants a day. The event will happen sometime mid-summer. Fran Tiburzio, the Ohio Chautauqua coordinator and director of public relations for the Ohio Humanities Council, said the exact timing will depend on what's best for the five host communities. Each will be asked to list the three best weeks between mid-June and mid-July, and using that the schedule will be determined. She described the event as a traveling history program. During the day the scholars will present workshops for adults and children. The evening program will be musical entertainment arranged by the local host, and then the scholar will give a half hour long presentation in character, and then answer questions, remaining in character. At the end of the evening the scholar will step out of character to answer questions the historic personage could not. Each night features a different scholar. The scholars are recruited from around the country, Tiburzio said. "We do a nationwide call for scholars to find the most qualified and fantastic Chautauqua scholars." The theme, "When Ohio was the Western Frontier," is the same as this year, and she said plans are to have the same scholars, though that's not yet certain. The characters portrayed are: Johnny Appleseed, Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry, York, an African slave who was a member of the Lewis and Clark expedition, Chief Logan, a Iroquois chief and Margaret Blennerhassett, who settled with her husband in Ohio and was involved in the turmoil surrounding the feud between Aaron Burr and Alexander Hamilton. |
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