
Orpheus' Son, the Life of Sidney Lanier
Mon, Jun 27
|CLE Lecture Hall
Time & Location
Jun 27, 2022, 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM
CLE Lecture Hall, 348 S 5th St, Highlands, NC 28741, USA
About the Event
The story Gran will share with you is one of utmost passion and dedication to one's Muses. It is not only a great Southern Story, and a broad sweeping American one, it cuts to the very marrow of the fundamental challenge of a life in performances. Our collective inheritance as Americans is complicated, conflicted, and still not resolved. On the state of world history, we are a young nation, and our Art reflects and reveals that about us. The language of learned people in the mid to even late 19th century often falls strangely on our ears, and personal decisions made a hundred and sixty years ago should not be solely interpreted or judged with 21st century realizations or expectations. The Lanier story is in no way an apologia for the decisions of a teenager or culture in which he was raised. Rather, it is a remembrance of the arc…