SIUSLAW NEWS ❚ WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 8, 2017
‘Living Voices’ come to life for local students
Noon Forum features NW
regional speaker tomorrow
Anna Salick from the
Northwest Region of the US
Chamber of Commerce is
scheduled to present at the
Florence Area Chamber Noon
Forum tomorrow.
Chamber Executive Direc-
tor Bettina Hannigan invites
neighboring chambers and
community members to attend
this meeting, held starting at
noon at Best Western Pier
Point Inn, 85625 Highway
101.
Lunch is available for pur-
chase.
Salick is responsible for
developing and maintaining
relationships with lawmakers
and their staffs, creating and
cultivating relationships with
local and state chambers and
activating U.S. Chamber
History walked the halls last
week at Siuslaw elementary
and middle schools as “Living
Voices”
actress
Rachael
McClinton reenacted the lives
of two turn-of-the-20th-centu-
ry immigrants.
More than 300 students par-
ticipated in the four perform-
ances, which were sponsored
by Seacoast Entertainment
Association, the Florence Elks
Lodge #1858 and through a
grant from the Elks National
Foundation, all in association
with Siuslaw Schools.
Living Voices is a produc-
tion company that combines
live acting and multimedia pre-
sentations including archival
photos, sound and film, to cre-
ate a realistic picture of the
everyday life experiences of
Americans from past decades.
Living Voices performs
across the U.S. and Canada.
While the characters are fic-
tional, all Living Voices pre-
sentations are based on histori-
cal incidents taken from
contemporary newspaper acc -
ounts, government records,
personal letters and memen-
toes; all illustrated by period
photos, music and movies.
Classroom and teacher aid
materials were provided to all
SES teachers whose students
attended.
Rachel Pearson, Seacoast’s
Educational
Outreach
Coordinator, said, “For the last
several years, SEAcoast has
collaborated with Living
members on key policy issues.
She also develops grass-
roots legislative strategies and
identifies emerging issues in
the region to enhance the leg-
islative agendas of and pro-
vide services to chamber
members.
The U.S. Chamber of
Commerce, headquartered in
Washington, D.C., is the
world’s largest business feder-
ation representing the interests
of more than 3 million busi-
nesses of all sizes, sectors and
regions, as well as state and
local chambers and industry
associations.
For more information, go to
the Visitors Center at 290
Highway 101, visit www. flo
rencechamber.com or call
541-997-3128.
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COURTESY PHOTO
Heather Wiggins (left), eighth-grade Social Studies teacher ,and Rachael McClinton, of
“Living Voices” (right) prepare to present “The New American.”
Voices, a nationally recognized
educational theater company,
and our schools, to integrate
this multi-media performance
into the school curriculum.”
McClinton, the touring
actress and co-founder of
Living Voices, along with two
other women who run the com-
pany, coordinates the 16 pro-
grams enacted by 30 different
actors across the U.S. and
Canada.
“We deeply appreciate that
SEAcoast has been so support-
ive, and now that we are also
partnering with the Elks Lodge
#1858 via the Elks Promise
Grant, we were able to expand
the number of students reached
three-fold,” said Pearson.
Pearson noted that special
thanks go out to the principals,
teachers and staff at Siuslaw
elementary
and
middle
schools. Bringing these pro-
grams means that they must
adjust the scheduling of the
entire school for those days.
“Special kudos also to the
Board
of
SEAcoast
Entertainment Association,
and to The Florence Elks
Lodge #1858, Exalted Ruler
Joyce Middleton and her offi-
cers,” said Pearson.
On Jan. 30, every eighth-
grade student in Heather
Wiggins’ Social Studies class-
es experienced an Ellis Island
immigration story: “The New
American.”
McClinton reenacted the
immigration story of a fiction-
al
character,
“Bridget
Fitzgerald,” a 15-year-old trav-
eling alone to New York City
in 1910 to escape the poverty
WEDNESDAY THURSDAY
and starvation of Clare
County, Ireland.
After setting the historical
content for the students,
McClinton went into character
and started the multimedia
presentation. The students
experienced the wrenching
process of Bridget leaving her
home
and
family,
the
wretchedness of an ocean voy-
age in steerage class on a
steamship, the fear and excite-
ment of being processed at
Ellis Island, and the noise and
chaos of New York City’s ten-
ements.
The New American narra-
tive highlights the poor work-
ing conditions of the time,
including the terror of the
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory
fire in 1911, which killed 147
workers.
It closed with the thrill of
Bridget finding meaningful
work with kind employers, and
her triumph at gaining citizen-
ship and becoming “A New
American.”
The SMS students became
very involved in the question
and answer sessions. Topics
included difficulties of travel,
prejudice, poverty, hunger,
immigration difficulties and
the dangers of the working
conditions offered to immi-
grants.
This was the third year
Wiggins has been able to
incorporate
“The
New
American” into her Ellis Island
Immigration unit, and she con-
tinues to build on how this
presentation fits into her cur-
riculum, including donning
period dress to help set the
stage.
On Tuesday, Jan. 31, the
entire fourth- and fifth-grade
classes at Siuslaw Elementary
were able to become involved
in the changing world of the
Pacific Northwest in 1900, as
seen through the eyes of a
Swedish family who settled in
a remote logging town.
Again, McClinton used her
acting talents and a multimedia
presentation to bring to life the
struggles of immigrant fami-
lies, as well as the existing
populations, as they adjusted
to changing ways of life and
rapidly advancing technolo-
gies and new difficulties.
Logging and fishing camps
as well as the various factories
where new Americans found
work were described and
brought to life.
This show highlighted the
many new immigrant groups
who traveled to the Pacific
Northwest over the last 150
years, as well as the Native
Peoples who were displaced or
were expected to adapt to
American ways.
The program also touched
on the devastation caused in
America by World War I when
soldiers from the U.S. and
Canada fought overseas, and
by the Influenza Epidemic of
1918.
The students’ attention to
the program, and their ques-
tions and comments, were all
remarkable, said Pearson.
“Siuslaw Elementary staff
and students are to be com-
mended for their efforts to
make this a successful learning
experience,” she said.
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