The Underground Railroad Lecture Featured at MSSA
Spencer Crew, acting director of the National Museum of African American History and Culture, will present a lecture at 8:15 p.m., on Thursday, June 24, in the Auditorium at the Monteagle Sunday School Assembly. Crew has worked in public history institutions for more than 25 years. He served as president of the National Underground Railroad Freedom Center for six years and worked at the National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution for 20 years. Nine of those years he served as the director of NMAH.
His most important exhibition was the ground-breaking “Field to Factory: Afro-American Migration 1915–1940” which generated a national discussion about migration, race, and the role of historical exhibitions. He also co-curated “The American Presidency A Glorious Burden,” which is one of the Smithsonian’s most popular exhibitions. The National Underground Railroad Freedom Center has gained recognition for the quality of its presentations and focus on race, interracial cooperation, and issues of contemporary slavery. The topic of his lecture is the Underground Railroad.
Jeremy Hultin, associate professor of Biblical languages at Union Theological Seminary, New York, is the 2021 Jervis Bible Week scholar on Rediscovering. Hultin will present lectures in the Auditorium at 10:45 a.m., Tuesday through Friday, June 22-25, on the Gospel of Luke: Historical Investigations and Contemporary Applications.
Entertainment in week three includes a performance at 8:15 p.m., Tuesday, June 22, in the Auditorium, by the a cappella ensemble, MiContraFa, singing a program of lively music from across the centuries with a focus on popular arrangements and classics. The Bea Troxel Trio from Nashville will perform at 7:30 p.m. on Friday, June 25, in the Auditorium. Troxel’s voice has been called “a balm for our age of distraction.”
The community is welcome to attend lectures and performances throughout the summer and may find a schedule at <www.mssa1882.org>.
The Assembly is a Chautauqua organization founded in 1882 to be a welcoming community of Christian faith where people gather to engage in spiritual growth and renewal, lifelong inquiry and learning, recreational and cultural enrichment, while being good stewards of our natural resources and our Assembly heritage.