Commonwealth Speakers:Presentations by Speaker
The Maltese Falcon and other films are used to compare the reading and movie viewing experience in Based on the Book: Bestseller Cinema.
Bob Allen
The Souls of Black Baseball: Barnstorming the Keystone State F L
Steven Anderson
Homegrown Heroes: Pennsylvania Communities in the Civil War F L P
Kelly Armor
All Stories Are True and Some Have Actually Happened F H L P
Phillip Atteberry
The Music of Irving Berlin L
Joseph Becton
Samuel D. Burris Speaks F P
Mensura Berberovic
Sevdalinka: A Musical Tour of Bosnia F H L P
George Boudreau
Independence Square: America's Birthplace L
Tom Breiding
Steeltowns, Coalfields and the Unbroken Circle P
Keith Brintzenhoff
Pennsylvania German Music, Dance and Instruments H L P
Saul Broudy
All Over this Land: Regional American Folk Music F H L P
Francisco Javier Hernandez Carbajal (aka) Brujo de la Mancha
Mexican Identity in the XXI Century F H L P
Silas Chamberlin
Hiking in Penn's Woods: A History F L
Suzanne Cloud
Commonwealth Cool: Pennsylvania Jazz History and Tradition L
William Donner
Pennsylvania German Groundhog Lodges L
Ken Ely
Northern Pennsylvania Stonewall History, Tradition & Restoration F H L
Darcy Fair
Irish Harp 'n' Time 'n' Place L P
Roberta Fallon and Libby Rosof
The Global Art Scene — Philadelphia to Shanghai L
Judith Giesberg
Lincoln and the Widow Bixby L
Cassandra Stancil Gunkel
The Underground Railroad in Quilts? H L
Paul Halpern
Time Travel in Popular Culture F L
Ernie Hawkins
Reverend Gary Davis: Genius of Piedmont Guitar — An Homage P
Warren Hoffman
Key Moments in American Musical Theatre History L
Paula Duda Holoviak
Ukrainian Immigration to the Coal Region of Northeastern Pennsylvania L P
Timothy Hufnagle
Cheap 3-Minute Thrills: Darkrides and Funhouses as Genre L
Thomas Jolin
Civil War Era Music F H L P
Amanda Kemp
Phillis Wheatley: Voice of Freedom F H P
Catherine Kerrison
Searching for the Life of Harriet Hemings L
Roger Lane
Abraham Lincoln: A Study in the Paradox of Greatness L
Susan Leviton
Women's Voices — Women's Lives in Yiddish Song L P
Judy Marti
A Banjo Pickin' Girl F H P
Bob Michel
Living the Tradition: Ballads for Now P
Karl Middleman
Leonard Bernstein: American Idol, American Idealist H L P
J. Philip Mosley
Ned Washington: Songs for Stage and Screen L
Richard Pawling
Canawling on America's Canals F P
William Pencak
Four Black Pennsylvanians in the Civil War F L
Candace Kintzer Perry
The Pow-Wow Principle: Pennsylvania German Folk Healing F L
Susan McLellan Plaisted
Chocolate: The Pennsylvania Connection H L
Paula Purnell
Homemade Music in Pennsylvania F H P
Irwin Richman
Founding Gardens: Penn, Washington and Jefferson L
Paul Rosier
Pennsylvania Environmental History: From Earth Day 1970 to Global Warming F L
Richard Sautter
The American Theatre during the Civil War L
Jef Savage and Nancy Walker
The Titanic: A Salute through Dance F H P
Vivienne Shaffer
Rachel Carson and the Music of the Spheres F H L
Smadar Shtuhl
Nursing in a Civil War Field Hospital L
Barbara Siegel (aka) Habiba
Egyptian Dance: Pharaonic Times to the Present F H L P
Jay Smar
Coal Mining Songs of the Northeast P
Millicent Sparks
The Harriet Tubman Living History Experience F P
Denise Valentine
Great Escapes! F H L P
Anthony Waskie
Meet General George G. Meade F H L P
Angela Watson
Healing African Dance F H L P
Bill Wine
Based on the Book: Bestseller Cinema L
Kenneth Womack
The Evolving Artistry of the Beatles F L
Tracie Yorke
Anansi the Spider: The Dancing Griot F H P
Bruce Young
Stephen Foster: American Dreamer F H P
F Family/Younger AudiencesAlso See. . .
H Hands-on/Active Participation
L Lectures
P Performances