2010

Maine Humanities Council's Let's Talk About It Series
"Modern Times in Maine & America, 1890-1930"
Tuesdays at 6:00 p.m.
The Carriage House, Victoria Mansion

May 25 Modern Times in Maine and America, Video
June 29 The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
July 27 Herland by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
August 31 Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis
September 28 As the Earth Turns by Gladys Hasty Carroll

Discussion Leader, Candace Kanes
Participants are asked to attend at least four of the five sessions. Series books are available for loan through Victoria Mansion. For information and to register please contact Tracy Quimby at 772-4841 ext. 15 or tquimby@victoriamansion.org.

Victoria Mansion, with support from the Maine Humanities Council,
presents three lectures on
"New and True: The Modern Woman in Maine, 1890-1940"
Wednesdays at noon
Rhines Auditorium, Portland Public Library

July 21 "Diana - The New Woman in the Maine Woods" presented by Nan Cumming, Executive Director, Portland Trails

August 18 "The Land and Sea of Three Maine Women Photographers: The Real Photo Post Cards of Thurza Foss, Minnie Libby, and Josephine Townsend" presented by Earle G. Shettleworth, Jr., Maine's State Historian and Director, Maine Historic Preservation Commission

September 22 "Life with the Libby Women" presented by Arlene Palmer Schwind, Curator, Victoria Mansion

All lectures are free to the public.
For more information call (207) 772-4841 

Tales of Terror at Victoria Mansion
Saturday, October 16
Two Performances: 6:00 - 7:30 p.m. or 8:00 - 9:30 p.m.
Tickets must be pre-purchased.
$20/Adult, $15 Mansion Member, and $10/Child (ages 12 and up)
Please call (207) 772-4841 ext. 10 or email
information@victoriamansion.org for tickets.

What could be more perfect than a big, Victorian mansion for experiencing two wickedly creepy tales by two masters of horror? The evening begins with self-guided tours of the house, granted by ghoulish guides, through the dimly, gas-level lit hallways, complemented by eerie, nineteenth-century background music. Later, storyteller Lynne Cullen gives a chilling performance of "The Beckoning Fair One" by Oliver Onions, "The Masque of the Red Death" by Edgar Allan Poe, and "The Haunted Chamber," a melancholy poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

Victoria Mansion and American Magic-Lantern
Theater Present:
"A Victorian Christmas"
Friday, November 19 at 8:00 p.m.
John Ford Theater, Portland Public High School
284 Cumberland Avenue
Tickets must be pre-purchased.
$10/Adult and $5/child up to age 17.
Click here to register.

As part of Victoria Mansion's public programs that explore the 1890s to the 1930s, the period during which the house's second owners, the Libby family, lived on-site, please join us to participate in popular form of 1890s entertainment that is a "combination of projected color images, live drama, live music, hilarious comedy and boisterous audience participation... the great grandfather of the cinema." This particular interactive, intergenerational show features holiday carols and short stories. For more information on the American Magic-Lantern Theater and this show, please visit: http://www.magiclanternshows.com/magiclanternshows.htm.

Funded in part by the New England States Touring program of the New England Foundation of the Arts, made possible with funding from the National Endowment for the Arts Regional Touring Program and the six New England state arts agencies.

Also funded in part by a grant from the Maine Arts Commission, an independent state agency supported by the National Endowment for the Arts and the Maine Humanities Council, a private non-profit organization affiliated with the national endowment for the humanities.