Archives Alive! brings Missouri history to life for fourth & fifth grade students.

Join Molly and Delores as they travel back to the early days of the territory we now know as Missouri, and tell the story of the earliest Missourians, and those who settled here in the 1800s. Louis Jolliet, Jacques Marquette, and Pierre Laclede will introduce some of Missouri’s oldest cities and how they were settled and named. Students will gain a greater understanding of the Civil War, and Missouri’s role in it, as well as other conflicts, such as World War I and World War II. Famous Missourians like George Caleb Bingham, Jesse James, Virginia Minor, Scott Joplin, Langston Hughes, Harry Truman, and many more will be discussed.

These forty minute performances, sponsored by the Friends of the Missouri State Archives and Hawthorn Bank, will take place at the Missouri State Archives, a division of the Secretary of State’s office, in Jefferson City, just minutes from the Capitol. Performances and tours are free of charge.

Please call now and book a time on one of these dates for your students to tour the Archives, where history begins, and to see a performance of Archives Alive!

RSVP by Tuesday, February 16, 2010!!

Wednesday, March 17
Thursday, March 25
Tuesday, April 6
Wednesday, April 21
Tuesday, April 27
Thursday, May 6
Wednesday, May 12
Thursday, May 13

Performances at 10:00 a.m., 11:00 a.m., and 12:00 p.m.

Financial Assistance for this project has been provided by the Missouri Arts Council, a state agency.

The Missouri State Archives, the official repository for state documents of permanent historic value, is a division of the Office of Secretary of State, Robin Carnahan, Secretary of State. For more information, or to R.S.V.P., call or e-mail Emily Luker at (573) 526-5296 or emily.luker@sos.mo.gov.