Episode 20-5: Blue Canvas Orchestra: American Stories

About This Episode

in 2019 Big Top Chautauqua's house band the Blue Canvas Orchestra
presented American Stories, featuring stories as diverse as the
tapestry of cultures that make up America, told with music,
dialogue and beautiful historic imagery. From the adventures of
17th century French Voyageurs to those of 18th century Wisconsin
farmers, from a humorous look at the mindset of the Western
expansion and manifest destiny to the sobering story of Little
Crow, the Chief of the Mdewakanton Dakota people.


This program examines the hopes, the desires and the potential
for accomplishment that existed then and encourages students to
see themselves in the striking characters and seldom heard
stories so that they might imagine their own accomplishments as
part of their own future history.
About Michael Perry

Michael Perry is a New York Times bestselling author, humorist
and radio show host from New Auburn, Wisconsin.


Perry’s bestselling memoirs include Population 485, Truck: A Love
Story, Coop, and Visiting Tom, and his latest, Montaigne in Barn
Boots: An Amateur Ambles Through Philosophy. His first book for
young readers, The Scavengers, was published in 2014 and first
novel for adult readers, The Jesus Cow, was published in May of
2015.


Raised on a small Midwestern dairy farm, Perry put himself
through nursing school while working on a ranch in Wyoming, then
wandered into writing. He lives with his wife and two daughters
in rural Wisconsin, where he serves on the local volunteer fire
and rescue service and is an intermittent pig farmer. He hosts
the nationally-syndicated “Tent Show Radio,” performs widely as a
humorist, and tours with his band the Long Beds (currently
recording their third album for Amble Down Records). He has
recorded three live humor albums including Never Stand Behind A
Sneezing Cow and The Clodhopper Monologues.


Learn more about Michael and where to get his publications at
www.sneezingcow.com.


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