WAMC’S The Roundtable Broadcast Live From The Fenimore Art Museum

ALBANY, NY (10/15/2008)(readMedia)-- WAMC/Northeast Public Radio's The Roundtable broadcast live from the Fenimore Art Museum in Cooperstown, NY, on Friday, October 10th. This appearance concluded the special week long series "American Indians in New York State: An Audio Exploration of Contemporary Life and Current Topics."

"The Fenimore Art Museum was delighted to have hosted The Roundtable's panel discussion on the representation of American Indians in literature," said D. Stephen Elliott, President of The New York State Historical Association, Fenimore Art Museum and The Farmers' Museum. "As the home of the famed Thaw Collection of American Indian Art and an institution invested in furthering education about Native American culture, we couldn't be more pleased that WAMC is offering this kind of quality programming on the topic. We look forward to having WAMC return in the future."

Recordings of the week's segments, pictures and information about the American Indians in New York State broadcast can be found at: http://www.wamc.org/americanindians. Pictures include a glimpse of the WAMC Roundtable hosts, Joe Donahue and Sarah LaDuke and their producer and engineer as well as many pictures of the places the Roundtable crew visited throughout the series including special guests from the live broadcast at the Fenimore Art Museum. Guests included: Jeff Idelson, President Baseball Hall of Fame, Gretchen Sullivan Sorin, Distinguished Professor Cooperstown Graduate Program, Eric Cheyfitz, Professor at Cornell on the American Studies and Humane Letters and American Indian Studies, and Hugh MacDougal, Cooperstown Town Historian.

Joe Donahue, host of the Roundtable said "The panel discussion with Professor Eric Cheyfitz and Hugh MacDougal proved a perfect coda to our week long exploration of American Indians in New York State. We are extremely grateful to the New York Council for the Humanities, our live audience and our host at the Fenimore Museum, who were integral in making the broadcast such a success."

This programming made possible through the support of the New York Council for the Humanities, a state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities. Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this radio series do not necessarily represent those of the New York Council for the Humanities or National Endowment for the Humanities.

WAMC/Northeast Public Radio is a non-commercial, listener supported public radio network broadcasting 24 hours a day to portions of seven New England and Middle Atlantic States. All broadcasts can also be heard online at http://www.wamc.org/ and segments of The Roundtable can be podcast from WAMC's website.

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