March

 This popular variety show will be brought to you by the following ICL members:
Sharon Wright -             The Tradition of Welsh Male Choirs
Tracy Ragland -             American composer Carlisle Floyd's opera "Susannah"
Harvey Reynolds  -       The Musical of Thomas Ravenscroft - 1609--1611
Bill Foster -                    British Big Bands
Mark Blackburn -           Evolution of a Percussion Guitarist

“Leave Salem on the Oregon Electric Southbound, at 9:49am, buying individual round trip tickets to Orville, price 50 cents. Woodland trails, fine views and an old gold mine will be interesting features of the hike. Lunches will be eaten at a deserted cabin, with a good fireplace (& coffee), near Vitae Springs. We will walk about five miles overall and return to Salem with the train arriving at 4:08pm.Sign up at the YMCA.”

This announcement was in the January 1929 Bulletin of the Chemeketans Outdoor Club which was established in October of 1928.The club is still alive and well today some 95 years later and has several hundred members including several members of ICL.

Current ICL (and Chemeketan) members Don Gallagher and Janet Adkins will present a brief history of the club using the photos and scrapbooks from the rich archives of the club.They will also show a few clips of a recent video history of the club which they helped produce.

Salem’s Moving History' highlights residences and other structures that have changed location, especially since the Capitol fire of 1935. Beginning in 1937, state properties expanded into what is now the North Capitol Mall, demolishing a half-mile corridor of residences stretching from Court to D Street.
Less researched is the lost residential neighborhood that is now the campus of Salem Hospital. Only a handful of these were moved. A third area was transformed by the construction of the Mission Street Overpass in the 1980s- we add one of the fortunate, rescued homes to this photographic collection.

In 1999, within 24 hours of seeing Salem for the first time, Virginia Green decided to make her retirement home there on the shoreline of the historic Willamette River. As a former American Studies teacher, she had found the historic downtown appealing. Her experience as a librarian lead her to volunteer at Salem City Library where she made her first acquaintances and became a writer for the library's online publication, Salem Online History. This opportunity to learn about local historical events and personalities led to additional research projects, a series of which were published in the Statesman Journal. Her son, Thomas Nash Green Jr. contributed photographs as the research expanded and new topics were introduced. Now they invite you to join them in discovering the heritage of their adopted hometown as incorporated into their SHINE on Salem website (shineonsalem.org).

Bob Muir: 19th century orientalism
Anita Owens: “My Life, Art and Loves Collage....something personalized all of you could do”
Lucy Foster: local artist Shoki Tanabe
Tracy Ragland: Alebrijes—Oaxacan animal carvings
Linda Kirsch: Piero della Francesca

Description TBA

In 1848, five women sat at a kitchen table and planned a convention that would begin a 72 year long movement to gain suffrage for women across America. This hour-long readers’ theater presentation will introduce you to some of the women who led the charge. We will hear from Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Abigail Scott Duniway, Carrie Chapman Catt, and others who worked tirelessly to enable the passage of the 19th Amendment, in 1920, affording women in this county the right to vote.
The entire cast are ICL members Rebecca Miller-Moe, Chris Duval, Gretchen Coppedge, Colleen Spedale, Deborah Warren, Rosamund Irwin, and Michele Rudnick.

Gloria Holland is the author and guest director of this play. She retired from the Salem Keizer School District after a 30-year career teaching English at the middle and high school levels. She has been active with Pentacle Theater and is currently active with the American Association of University Women and serves in many roles at the Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Salem. She is a strong supporter of The League of Women Voters.
Gloria has written three readers' theater plays, including "The Unsung Heroes of STEM," which was performed for ICL a few years ago. She is honored to have been asked back and is delighted with her current ICL cast for this production of "The Suffrage Movement in America." Gloria is mother of one, stepmom of three, and Gigi to nine. She lives in West Salem with her adoring husband, Alan.

How do they sing as high as altos and sopranos? Why?
In talking about these opera stars we learn their stories as well as some
history of opera. We will use examples from modern countertenors, to
closely recreate the sounds of these remarkable singers. Why is the high
voice so much revered in opera then and today?

First of all, in case you are wondering, I am not an ex mayor of Salem. I am a musician. I play harpsichord and fortepiano, taught modern piano for 25 years, and was an adjunct music theory teacher for a few years at Willamette.
I came to Salem in 1976 with my husband Dr. George Miller (now deceased) and my three children. I have 3 grandchildren who keep me young at heart. My family will tell you that I am very curious and ask too many questions. I promise to be always mindful of that during ICL meetings.
Having lived in South Carolina, Georgia, North Carolina, and Tennessee, I have that southern accent ingrained in me in spite of living in Oregon for 46 years.