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SOME NATIONAL AIR AND SPACE MUSEUM EVENTS
  
March 5, 7:00pm.  General Electric Aviation Series.  Clarence E. "Bud"         
    Anderson will share experiences as triple ace.  After lecture he         
    will autograph copies of memoirs.  Samuel P. Langley Theater.
  
March 7, 9:30am.  Monthly Sky Lecture.  Ellen Sprouls, Chief, NASM's 
    Education Office, explains how newest planetarium feature "Exploring 
    New Worlds" developed.  Albert Einstein Planetarium.
  
  
NATIONAL MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY.  "IDENTI-DAY".

March 7, 11 am - 4 pm, Naturalist Center, NMNH.  Bring in your fossil 
    finds, Smithsonian specialists will help you identify and learn 
    about your treasures.  Please no visitors under age 12.  For more     
    info, call (202) 357-2804.


ANACOSTIA MUSEUM EVENTS.

Feb. 29, 6:30 pm.  Film premiere, "Climbing Jacob's Ladder," explores     
    collecting and preserving African-American church histories,     
    materials.  Created by noted film maker Stanley Nelson; narrated by        
    gospel great Shirley Caesar.  American Film Institute, Kennedy     
    Center.  For more info call (202) 287-3382.
  
March 7, 10 am- 2:30 pm.  Genealogy workshop for individuals seriously 
    interested in researching family histories; continues under Maria 
    Goodwin's leadership.  For more info call (202) 287-3369.


NATIONAL MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY.  FILM and LECTURE SERIES.

Feb. 28, noon.  "Langston Hughes:  Dream Keeper".  58-min. film.
    James Lowell Gibbs, Jr., Stanford University, discusses film as     
    vehicle for presenting Hughes identification with Africa as motif in     
    his poetry and work.  Baird Auditorium.  Free.

March 6, noon.  "Sugar and Slavery:  The New World Connection".
    An illustrated lecture by Sidney Mintz and William Straus, Jr., 
    Johns Hopkins University.  He will show how history of sugar as 
    commodity and Africans as slaves are inextricably linked.
    Baird Auditorium.  Free.

March 13, "Love, Women and Flowers".  58-min. film.
    Award-winning portrait of Colombia's third largest export, flowers
    and the women who grow, pack flowers and consequences of pesticide, 
    fungicide exposure.   Baird Auditorium.  Free.


AFRICAN-AMERICAN STUDIES CENTER WINTER EVENTS.
For ticket information, membership and brochures, 
please call (202) 786-2345 . . . group sales are welcome!
  
Feb. 24, 7:00pm,  "Towards a National African American Museum".
    An informative evening with Claudine Brown, Deputy Assistant 
    Secretary for Museums.  Baird Auditorium.

Feb. 26, 6:30 pm, "Great Awakenings:  New African American Filmmakers",  
    Screening of film panel discussions with Jacqueline Jones.
    Rm. 3031, Ripley Center.

Feb. 29, 7:00pm, "Marlena Shaw in Concert", phenomenal musical         
    songstress and stylist.  Baird Auditorium.