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Thursday, November 17, 2016
Doll Museum: Doll Collecting, Small Business, and the Future of...
Doll Museum: Doll Collecting, Small Business, and the Future of...: Today I caught an AOL headline that made me pause; the "heartbreaking" news was that Duck Dynasty was entering its last TV season....
Thursday, November 10, 2016
Prof is Doll Collector
Below are excerpts from a very kind, and flattering article my school had written about me. I am an administrator and teacher in legal studies, criminal justice, and English when I'm not "Playing Dolls." She writes very well, and once wrote for Newsweek. I was terribly honored by this, and touched, so I reproduced some of it for everyone to enjoy, and it is sort of an early Christmas card from me. Seasons Greetings to all, and Peace in 2017!
With Love from Tin Lizzie
Prof is Doll Collector, Academic Renaissance Woman
When Dr. Ellen Tsagaris was a toddler in her native Greece, her mother presented her with a rubber yellow bunny doll that squeaked. “I liked it very much,” she recalled.
Two Greek dolls dressed in national costumes followed that present. “By then, I was hooked. I remember as a child saying, ‘I’m going to collect dolls.’”
And collect she did.
Today, some 50 years later, Ellen . . . is not only the chair of multiple academic departments for KU. . . , but also one of the nation’s foremost collectors of and authorities on antique dolls.
“When I was young, I loved portrait painting and I was interested in photography, costumes, and textiles, too. I found that doll collecting encompassed all those interests. I’ve always loved having dolls, collecting dolls and reading about dolls,” she said.
Wooden
dolls, porcelain dolls, dolls made of china and wax, Ellen has them all. And
this year, she authored the first definitive book on dolls made from tin.
Entitled
With Love from Tin Lizzie, A History of Metal Heads, Metal Dolls,
Mechanical Dolls, and Automatons,” the book addresses the way dolls reflect
cultures and civilizations, and how they have given rise to an international
“doll economy.”
Reviewers
have described the book as an “academic text, a photo album, and book of
memories all in one.”
Ellen’s
dolls hail from 50 U.S. states and most of the countries in Europe, Asia and
South America.
Her
Greek family, world travelers, have continued to bring Ellen antique dolls,
folk dolls, costume dolls and souvenir dolls from all parts of the globe.
One
of her favorites is her ‘Vogue Baby Dear,” the type of doll that Communist
Party Secretary Nikita Khrushchev took back to his grandchildren in Russia
after his iconic “shoe-banging” speech to the United Nations in 1960.
She
received a Japanese Ningyo doll made of papier mache and covered in white
oyster shell when her Uncle Tom visited Japan. At Knott’s Berry Farm in
California, her father presented her with a strawberry blonde doll designed by
celebrated ballet dancer and artist Suzanne Gibson.
When she’s not collecting dolls, Ellen is something of an academic renaissance woman. She holds a law degree, a doctorate in Modern British Literature, a Master’s Degree in English, and a Bachelor’s Degree in English and Spanish. She is a member of the Phi Beta Kappa.
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Her interest in dolls has dovetailed seamlessly with her academic interests. she has researched and written about dolls in literature and about Anne Rice, who was an avid doll collector.
Ellen's next frontier: When she retires, she hopes to establish a nonprofit doll museum similar to the one Rice established at the former St.. Elizabeth's orphanage in New Orleans. The museum will tell the story of human history though dolls, doll houses, and related objects.
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Tuesday, November 8, 2016
Holocaust Education Committee
PROGRAMS OFFERED
BY
THE HOLOCAUST EDUCATION COMMITTEE
OF THE GREATER QUAD CITY AREA
SPEAKERS AND PRESENTERS
Authors, exhibits, Holocaust specialists and dramatic
presentations are provided to schools, libraries, churches and other community
venues through grants and collaboration with community groups.
INSTITUTES AND WORKSHOPS
Since 1993, Holocaust institutes and workshops have been
offered to Quad City educators, students and community members. Institutes are scheduled in the fall of
odd-numbered years.
TRUNKS AND OTHER EDUCATIONAL
MATERIALS
The Jeff Leibovitz Special Collection, housed at the Western
Illinois University Quad City Campus in Moline, provides access to over a
thousand resources, including sets of traveling curriculum cases focused on Making
a Difference, Rescuers and Resisters, and Diaries and Memoirs.
ESSAY AND ART CONTESTS
The Ida Kramer Children and the Holocaust Essay Contest and the
Meyer and Frances Shnurman Holocaust Visual Arts Contest are open to students
in grades 7-12. Submissions are due
annually on February 1.
TEACHER SCHOLARSHIPS
Applications
for the Rauch Foundation Teacher Scholarship, from $200 to $2,000, are due annually
on April 1 or October 1 to support professional development. The scholarship covers expenses for travel,
housing, and/or registration for conferences, workshops or tours.
A BOOK BY ME
Youth, 18 years old or younger, interview, research, write
and illustrate a 10-page book about a Holocaust survivor, liberator or rescuer.
Promoting a higher
awareness of the Holocaust as a unique historical event with universal
implications for today
WEBSITE: www.hecqc.org
Monday, November 7, 2016
Sunday, November 6, 2016
Antique Doll Collector Magazine: November Interview with Caroline Johnson
Antique Doll Collector Magazine: November Interview with Caroline Johnson: I'm very privileged to have as our November interviewee, my good friend Caroline Johnson, who has lived as a citizen of the world,...
Friday, November 4, 2016
Antique Doll Collector Magazine: Rendezvous Celebrity Dolls, November 9th
Antique Doll Collector Magazine: Rendezvous Celebrity Dolls, November 9th: Our friends at Theriault's never disappoint. Here is another wonderful Rendezvous Auction coming up Novemberr 9th, this one on celebr...
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