People Extra! 9/15/11

Dr. Hume will

talk on Lincoln

Whitman County Library will host Dr. Richard Hume next Wednesday, Sept. 21, at 6:30 for a talk on Abraham Lincoln. Dr. Hume earned his doctorate from the University of Washington and has taught for 40 years at Washington State University focusing on Lincoln, the Civil War and Reconstruction.

The library is hosting the Forever Free: Abraham Lincoln’s Journey to Emancipation exhibit until Oct. 3. This exhibit traces Lincoln’s actions from an antislavery moderate to “The Great Emancipator”.

Forever Free: Abraham Lincoln’s Journey to Emancipation has been organized by the Huntington Library, San Marino, Calif., and the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, New York City, in cooperation with the American Library Association Public Programs Office.

Book on

slavery set for discussion

A community discussion of the book “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl” by Harriet Jacobs will be Tuesday, Sept. 20, at 6 p.m. at the Colfax library. Bill Reynolds, pastor of the Assembly of God Church and an Abe Lincoln enthusiast, will lead the discussion. Copies of the books can be obtained by contacting Whitman County Library.

Jacobs’ book is her account of the horrors of slavery, her attempted escape and how she eventually obtained freedom. In 1861, Jacobs wrote, “Slavery is terrible for men, but it is far more terrible for women.”

The book discussion is being offered in conjunction with the Forever Free: Abraham Lincoln’s Journey to Emancipation exhibit now showing at the Colfax Library.

Extreme couponing

Extreme Couponing with Tammilee will be presented at the library tonight, Sept. 15, at 6 p.m. Tammilee has been featured on TLC’s reality show, Extreme Couponing, and her website, http://www.tammileetips.com, is often featured in blogs and newspapers across our region. Tammilee helps people lower weekly grocery bills and teaches the art of stockpiling necessities while saving money.

CLUBS & YOUTH GROUPS

Garfield-Palouse FFA

Garfield-Palouse FFA members participated in a range of activities at the fair from identifying plants to showing sheep. Derrick Bosch received champion and reserve for his hogs.

Mitch Jamison won reserve in the hog fitting and showing, novice division.

Emily Akin was awarded first place for her yearling ewe, and Matt Dymkoski took second place in the novice for fitting and showing with his lamb.

Nathan Cocking, Hannah Neibergs, Missy Johnson, Emily Akin and Heidi Jamison took first place in the FFA livestock judging competition. Cocking was fifth high individual, and Neibergs was sixth high.

Garfield-Palouse FFA placed first in the agronomy competition and won the herdsmanship championship in the sheep barn.

ON CAMPUS

ART

WSU Fine Arts Faculty exhibition Aug. 26 to Sept. 24 at the WSU Museum of Art. Exhibitors include Ann Christenson, Avantika Bawa, Carol Ivory, Chris Watts, Dennis DeHart, Douglas Gast, Gene Rosa, Harrison Higgs, Io Palmer, Kevin Haas, Maria DePrano, Marianne Kinkel, Michael Holloman, Michelle Forsyth, Nik Meisel, Pamela Lee, Reza Safavi, Tamara Helm and Tim Doebler. Gallery hours are 10 to 4, Monday–Saturday, open until 7 p.m. Thursday.

MUSIC

UI Lionel Hampton School of Music faculty recital, tonight, Sept. 15, Haddock Performance Hall, 7:30 p.m. Vanessa Sielaert, saxophones; Kristain Elgersman and Kay Zavislak, piano; Miranda Wilson, cello.

A free, public celebration of 20th century North American music will feature a symphony by Washington composer Alan Hovhaness when the Washington State University Wind Symphony Orchestra kicks off the 2011-12 season at 8 p.m. next Thursday, Sept. 22, in Bryan Hall Theater. The performance will be directed by new orchestra conductor Matt Aubin Hovhaness who was the Seattle Symphony’s composer in residence for more than 30 years.

A WSU Faculty Artist Series concert at 8 p.m.

Friday, Sept. 23, in Bryan Hall Theater.

WSU Associate Professor Julie Anne Wieck, soprano, and Professor Gerald Berthiaume, piano and harpsichord, will open the program with baroque art songs by British composer Henry Purcell.

Ticket proceeds benefit the School of Music scholarship fund.

Tickets, available in the lobby one hour before concert time, are free to WSU students, $5 for other students and senior citizens and $10 general admission.Joining Wieck and Berthiaume will be WSU faculty members Erich Lear, violin, Richard Kriehn, viola, and Ruth Boden, cello.

Also performing in the string quartet on violin will be Ferenc Cseszko from the Lionel Hampton School of Music at the University of Idaho.