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News Release: TRACES "BUS-eum 2" will be on the Olney Friends School Campus
Barring unforeseen difficulties, the BUS-eum 2 will be in Barnesville from 1:00pm to 4:00pm on Saturday, the 12th of May 2007; it will be parked in front of Olney Friends School, at 61830 Sandy Ridge Road.
This project’s main goals are presenting an unknown history to a wide audience and stimulating open discussion, guided by panels of local community leaders. Especially relevant as the Midwest was the site of 18 German-American internment camps and detention centers, communities across the region will have an opportunity—in most cases for the first time—to discuss the legacy as well as implications of the U.S. Government’s WWII “Enemy Alien” internment program.
A “community conversation” will be part of many BUS-eum 2 showings. At such venues, host-selected community leaders will sit on a panel and discuss guiding questions. Through this project, Midwesterners will see WWII history in a new way. The discussion itself is meant to support democratic processes and involvement in modern day society. This exhibit is supported, in part, by grants from Humanities Councils in Wisconsin, Illinois, Iowa and Missouri, with additional, local supporters across the entire 8-state region.
(Early arrival is encouraged, as the tour is tightly scheduled and showings will begin and end promptly at the times indicated. For more information, visit www.TRACES.org.)
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