Smithsonian Curator To Share Performing Arts Anecdotes

NEW MILFORD — On Saturday, May 6, cultural historian Dwight Blocker Bowers will return to Hunt Hill Farm to give a special presentation of “A Little Song, A Little Dance, A Little History.” An interactive program featuring Mr Bowers’s inimitably candid and convivial style, the event will draw on the many collections of the National Museum of American History, as well as the collections of Hunt Hill Farm Trust.

In a lecture that combines commentary, slides, audio, and video, Mr Bowers, the performing arts curator at the Smithsonian’s Museum of American History, will share the collecting stories behind such treasured objects as Irving Berlin’s transposing piano, Carol Channing’s Hello, Dolly! costume, and objects from the film The Wizard of Oz. He will also show film and audio clips from the museum’s dynamic performance and oral history series featuring Chita Rivera, songwriters Alan and Marilyn Bergman, and Skitch Henderson.

Reservations are required. This event is free to members of the Hunt Hill Farm Trust Family. Tickets for non-members are $20, and senior citizens are $10.

For more information or to make a reservation, call The Silo at 860-355-0300. Hunt Hill Farm is part of The Silo, at 44 Upland Road.