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High Tea with Amelia Earhart, February 9th

 Highland Park ----  On Sunday February 9th at 1 PM, Greater Midwest Foodways Alliance is presenting High Tea with Amelia Earhart.   This four-course tea, catered by High Tea by Gerri, will feature open face sandwiches, homemade raisin scones with jam and clotted cream, homemade apple-rhubarb pie and assorted petits fours with tea poured freely all afternoon.  Historian and literary dramatist Leslie Goddard in character as Amelia Earhart will entertain us. 

American aviator Amelia Earhart’s courageous exploits and spirited personality made her an international celebrity. Her dazzling achievements include becoming the first woman to cross the Atlantic ocean by airplane (1928) and the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic (1932). She set numerous speed and altitude records before disappearing mysteriously in 1937 during an attempted around-the-world flight.  

Leslie Goddard’s presentation reviews Amelia Earhart’s upbringing, the records she broke, and her tireless work to promote opportunities for women.    

Leslie Goddard earned a Ph.D. from Northwestern University, specializing in U.S. cultural history, American studies, and women's history.  She also holds both a bachelor's and a master's degree in theater.  An award winning scholar, Leslie Goddard authored Remembering Marshall Fields and Chicago’s Sweet Candy History.

High Tea with Amelia Earhart  will be at the Highland Park Community House, 1991 Sheridan Road, Highland Park, Illinois.  For further information, please contact Greater Midwest Foodways Alliance: 312-380-1665.   Admission is $55. ($65. at the door, if seating is available) paid to Greater Midwest Foodways Alliance, 280 Laurel Avenue, Highland Park, IL 60035 or by credit card GreaterMidwestFoodways.eventbrite.com or 1-800-838-3006.  Doors open at 12:00, ea service begins at 1:00 pm.  There will be an early bird boutique of vintage hats, jewelry and accessories.

Greater Midwest Foodways Alliance is dedicated to celebrating, exploring and preserving unique food traditions and their cultural contexts in the American Midwest. By hosting public events, developing archival resources and generating publications, the GMFA uncovers the distinctiveness of a region that is as varied in tastes and traditions as it is in its geography from the Great Lakes to the Great Plains. Whether indigenous foods like Wisconsin cranberries and Minnesota walleye, iconographic flavors like the wheat and corn from across the prairies, immigrant cuisines from early Europeans to 21st century newcomers, or fish boils and fine dining in small towns and big cities, the Greater Midwest Foodways promotes and chronicles the diversity of the region’s culinary character. 

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