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LIVING HISTORY

One of the most tumultuous periods
in our nation's history, the Civil War
comes to life Sunday and Monday
May 30-31, as Greenfield Village stages
a two-day event that pays tribute to all
Americans who fought and died while
protecting our freedom.
Return to the days of Union blue
and Confederate gray this Memorial
Day weekend during "Civil War
Remembrance," as living history re-
enactors create tactical troop move-
ments, encampments, mourning cus-
toms and other daily scenes of the
Civil War. Entertainments of the 19th
century, including narrated dramas
called "tableaus" used to entertain the
troops and performances of popular
songs employed to rally the troops,
also will be featured.
Henry Ford Museum & Greenfield
Village is located at Oakwood
Boulevard and Village Road in
Dearborn, just west of the Southfield
Freeway and south of Michigan
Avenue. Hours are 9 a.m.-5 p.m.
daily. Admission is $12.50
adults/S11.50 seniors 62 and
over/S7.50 ages 5-12/under 5 and
members free. For more information,
call (313) 271-1620.

in The Thin Man series.
Hellman and Hammett
fought for social justice,
The romance of play-
and faced their greatest tri-
wright/author Lillian
als during the McCarthy
Hellman and writer
era. They shared every-
Dashiell Hammett
thing — genius, infidelity,
spanned 30 years, in
alcoholism.
which they created some
Dash and Lilly, a new
of the best-known literary
A&E movie depicting
works of the 20th century.
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their tumultuous love
Hellman, born into a
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affair, premieres 8 p.m.
Jewish family in New
Sunday, May 31. Sam
Orleans, came to fame
Shepard plays Hammett
with her acclaimed play
and Judy Davis portrays Hellman.
The Children.s. • Hour in 1934, and fol-
Bebe Neuwirth takes the role of
lowed with The Little Foxes, Watch on
Hellman's good friend the acerbic
the Rhine and Toys in the Attic.
writer Dorothy Parker, and David
Hammett created the hard-boiled
Paymer plays Arthur Kober, who qui-
detective genre in crime fiction,
etly divorced Hellman after she began
including the Sam Spade character
made famous by Humphrey Bogart
her affair with Hammett. Actress
Kathy Bares directed the production.
and the sophisticated husband-and-
Check your local cable listings.
wife team of Nick and Nora Charles

LOVE & WAR

CALLING An THRILL SEEKERS

"Scream Machines:
The Science of Roller
Coasters" opens May 29
and runs through Sept. 6
at the Cranbrook Institute
of Science, where the new
traveling exhibition makes
its first U.S. stop. It pre-
sents a hands-on — and
bodies on — opportunity
to experience the excite-
ment and science of roller
coasters in exhibits like
"G-Force," "Tumble-
Vision" and "That's Just
Sick!" Other displays o er
images and artifacts t9at
reveal the history of our
centuries-old need for
speed. 1221 N Woodward,
Bloomfield Hills. 10 a. m. -
5 p. m. daily/Fridays until
10 p. m. $7 adults/$4 ages
3-17, students and
seniors/under 3 and mem-
bers free. (877) 462-7262;
www.cranbrook.edu

EXPRESSWAY To ART

The world's only art fair held on
an expressway overpass, "Art Over
the Interstate," a juried fine art/fine
craft fair, makes its annual Memorial
Day weekend appearance 10 a.m.-6
p.m. Sunday and Monday, May 30-
31, in Charlotte M. Rothstein Park, a
tree-lined park that sits atop 1-696.
The family-oriented multimedia
art event also features a variety of
foods (some kosher!); a lineup of jazz,
blues, folk and ethnic music; and the
opportunity to paint a fabric square
that will be incorporated into quilts
to be donated to AIDS patients in
the community.
Charlotte M. Rothstein Park is
located on the north side of 10 Mile
Road behind the Jewish Community
Campus, just east of Greenfield in
Oak Park. There is no admission
charge.

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MYSTICAL CREATIONS

Abraham Loewenthal, an Akiva
Day School graduate, has been creat-
ing works of art in the mystical city of
Safad, Israel, for almost six years. A
graduate of U-M and the School of
Art of the Art Institute of Chicago,
Loewenthal blends his art with his
Kabbalah studies. Many of the artist's
works are charts or maps of the chan-
nels and connections that the
Kabbalah describes in the Zohar and
other writings.
"I attempt to see through the sur-
face," says Loewenthal. "I am interest-
ed in the inside surface details of our
experience, which is a dialogue
between our limited consciousness and
our limited experience."
Aish HaTorah hosts Loewenthal 7:30
p.m. Thursday, June 3, in a presentation
of the foundations of Kabbalah, illus-
trated by the artist's paintings and pho-
tographs, at Young Israel of Southfield,
27705 Lahser Road. Admission is $10
for the lecture; there will be a private
showing of Loewenthal's work for event
patrons. For more information, call
Aish HaTorah, (248) 737-0400.

THE WRITE STUFF

The Detroit Women Writers,
founded in 1900 as Detroit's first press
club, boasts a membership of profes-
sional writers, journalists and literary
writers published in local and national
publications, whose stated purpose is
to encourage creative writing of the
highest professional standard."
At 7 p.m. Wednesday, June 2, the
DWG' will present "An Evening of
Readings" at the Detroit Public Library's
Main Library on Woodward Avenue in
the Cultural Center. The evening spot-
lights the works of DWW's Spring
Readings Competition Winners. They
include Debra Darvick (nonfiction), a
frequent contributor to the Jewish News;
Gay Rubin and Corrinne Abatt (fic-
tion); and Linda Nemec Foster (poetry).
Former Detroit Free Press book editor
Linnea Lannon judged the competition.
The program is free and will be
held in the library's fine arts depart-
ment on the third floor. For more
information, call (313) 833 - 4042.

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5/28
1999

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