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Entrance to the Newberry Library at 50 W. Walton – Chicago
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Ruth C. Ruggles Hall where the Symposium “Foodways of the Midwest” was held.
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Approx 100 people attended the lecture at the Newberry Library
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Cynthia Clampitt author and lecturer who gave the lecture on “What is Midwestern Food?” at the Newberry Library. In 2012, her travel presentations were named Best of the Best by the Library Administrators Conference of Northern Illinois. Her Rule of Rum presentation was accepted by the Illinois Humanities Council for their 2014 Road Scholar program.
In addition to the Society of Midland Authors, Clampitt is a member of the Society of Women Geographers, Culinary Historians of Chicago, the Midwest History Association, and the Association of Food Journalists
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Sherry Williams is the Founder and curator of the Bronzeville Historical Society, an organization committed to the care, collection, and exhibition of
African American history and the culture of Chicago.
She studies African American cultural assets, including African heritage foodways and early Black farming and gardening practices in the United States.
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