Educational Programs

Online Exhibit

An online exhibit, at www.ywhc.org, will be available in January, 2002. The complete recordings from the "Music As Artifact" aspect of the exhibit will be accessible to the public as downloadable files.

Lecture Series - Free Admission

Dr. Carroll Van West - Middle Tennessee State University, History Department
"Billings' Formative Years"
Billings Deaconess Clinic (2800 10th Ave. North) Conference Room - Southwest entrance
May 9, 2002 at 7:00pm
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Daniel Nadenicek - Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture and Director of the Center for Studies in Landscape History at Pennsylvania State University
"Frederick Billings and the Landscape of the Northern Plains"
Western Heritage Center
May 16, 2002 at 12:00pm (High Noon Lecture Series)
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Daniel Nadenicek - Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture and Director of the Center for Studies in Landscape History at Pennsylvania State University
"Historic Landscape Architecture"
Billings Depot (2310 Montana Avenue)
May 16, 2002 at 7:00pm
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Dr. Bill Lang - Director for Columbia River History, Oregon
"The Environmental History of the West"
Billings Deaconess Clinic (2800 10th Ave. North) Conference Room - Southwest entrance
May 23, 2002 at 7:00pm
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Lawrence Flat Lip - Crow Oral and Cultural Historian
"Apsaalooke Oral History"
Billings Deaconess Clinic (2800 10th Ave. North) Conference Room - Southwest entrance
May 30, 2002 at 7:00pm
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Dr. David Lowenthal - American professor emeritus of geography at University College London
"George Perkins Marsh of Woodstock, Vermont"
Sept. 5, 2002

Dr. Robin Winks - Randolph W. Townsend Chair, Department of History, Yale University
"Frederick Billings - A Life"
September 12, 2002

Wendys' Family Fun Day

Wendy's Family fun Day, featuring live music, games, activities, and speakers.
Saturday, May 11, 2002, from 11:00am to 3:00pm.

Billings Symphony Performance

Jim Cockey's original musical composition, based on the exhibit, Life by Comparison: The Stories of Frederick and Parmly Billings, will be performed by the Billings Symphony and premiere at the Alberta Bair Theater.
September 14, 2002

Suggested Readings

Jane Curtis, Peter Jennison, and Frank Lieberman (1986)
Frederick Billings: Vermonter, Pioneer Lawyer, Business Man, Conservationist

William Lang, editor (1995)
Stories From An Open Country: Essays on the Yellowstone River Valley</