LBH Traveling Cemetery

[Jenny]

My traveling cemetery will likely be finished by the end of 2024. I would like to partner with battle historians (armchair or professional) during these shows. I am not a battle expert, so I would welcome people who are to come and stick around and answer questions. My show is designed to get people thinking and remembering the history of this country, however ugly it can be at times. It also is interactive, as I have created small biographies for each person as well as a rather moving playlist of music. When a visitor enters the show they take one of the folded pieces of paper that contains the biography and must go and find that person in the "cemetery." Its been a great way to engage viewers and teach about the times in which this battle occurred. I borrowed the idea from the Holocaust Museum in Washington DC.

Update: about 60 portraits to go, plus I will be painting 3 horses - cavalry mount, Indian pony and pack mule. My first show in Boise was met with dropped jaws and lots of questions. Click on the link below to watch the trailer I made and Stay tuned! Traveling in 2025-26 for the 150th anniversary. Would you like to see it in your town?


Watch my Battle of Little Bighorn Traveling Cemetery trailer


Jenny Niemeyer

[noggy]

Nov 7, 2023 12:23:19 GMT -6 Jenny said:

Update: about 60 portraits to go, plus I will be painting 3 horses - cavalry mount, Indian pony and pack mule. My first show in Boise was met with dropped jaws and lots of questions. Click on the link below to watch the trailer I made and Stay tuned! Traveling in 2025-26 for the 150th anniversary. Would you like to see it in your town?


Watch my Battle of Little Bighorn Traveling Cemetery trailer


Jenny Niemeyer

Maybe worth contacting the Battlefield"people" regarding 26? Would make sense to maybe co-operate on some level during the 200th anniversary?

Noggy

[Jenny]

I agree. I'll give it another shot!

Thanks, Noggy!

[herosrest]

^Ducemus

It's a stunning work. Leave it be.........

[Jenny]

I thought you all needed a portrait to look at today. Been off the job for awhile due to dislocated shoulder (painting arm!) Here you go:

[herosrest]

^Ducemus

I like it very much.

Beyond your style and brushwork, lose the beard and you have close to 'Top Dog' = ^{<<< clickable}

[noggy]

Jan 27, 2024 9:22:50 GMT -6 Jenny said:

I thought you all needed a portrait to look at today. Been off the job for awhile due to dislocated shoulder (painting arm!) Here you go:


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"Painting arm" sounds unpleasant, been having issues with mye rhomboids myself, very frustrating for us who use our arms quite a bit Great painting, like HR I like it.

Noggy

[Jenny]

Thanks, guys. Good thing we're not all getting old or I'd make a crack about it! You know about Stuart's letters, right?Swann Galleries

[Jenny]

Another portrait for today. I showed all that I completed in Oct. 2023 in a pop-up show in Boise. It was really interesting how most people had an opinion about this battle, but while perusing the portraits and the information about it, discovered that they actually knew very little. Several high-school age kids were fascinated with the story and said that no, they had never learned about Indian Wars history in school. This is about 70 percent of the reason I will be taking this on the road.

The folded bits of paper are biographies of each participant who died and who is displayed somewhere in this traveling cemetery. You must take one, unfold it, read about the person, and go find them.





Jenny

[noggy]

Feb 15, 2024 10:46:13 GMT -6 Jenny said:

Another portrait for today. I showed all that I completed in Oct. 2023 in a pop-up show in Boise. It was really interesting how most people had an opinion about this battle, but while perusing the portraits and the information about it, discovered that they actually knew very little. Several high-school age kids were fascinated with the story and said that no, they had never learned about Indian Wars history in school. This is about 70 percent of the reason I will be taking this on the road.

The folded bits of paper are biographies of each participant who died and who is displayed somewhere in this traveling cemetery. You must take one, unfold it, read about the person, and go find them.

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Jenny

Amazing how many NAs had names that could also be the titles of Marvel movies!

I surprises me that the US doesn't give this huge part of it's near history it's dure respect in school, but at the same time my own country isn't the best at highlighting some of the unpleasant things done to minorities.

I liked the part with the paper bits, I did something similar when I was a teacher

All the best, 
Noggy

[Diane Merkel]

Jenny, the folded bios are a great idea! They remind me of the Titanic displays that popped up around the country. You were given someone's name as your entered but didn't learn their fate until the end.

Noggy, I remember learning about Plains Indians while in grade school (mostly because of a painting I made) but I remember little else in later school years. It's a shame.

Those who don't develop a love of learning in their early years are doomed to a sad and boring life. That's why I love these boards. You all are eager to learn.

Diane

[noggy]

Feb 16, 2024 10:47:40 GMT -6 Diane Merkel said:

Noggy, I remember learning about Plains Indians while in grade school (mostly because of a painting I made) but I remember little else in later school years. It's a shame.

In my teaching days, when working with the subject of Colonialism in history class, I split up the class in groups and gave each group just paper with for pictures of different people on it. Under each person was just a single word, the only ones I remember now are "Sioux" and "Herero". The they were left to themselves to do research on different colonial conflicts, military and non-military. Many were shocked by what they found when digging around on the net and in books, including our own country's treatment of the Sámi peoples in the North.

We need not to stuff history down the throats of the youngsters, just nudge them in the right direction, and they'll often be interested. I doubt it has ever ben more vital do know history in order to understand the world than today...

All the best,
Noggy

[Yan Taylor]

I used to mention history tit bits to our first grandson Jacob, just random things like dates and stuff, got him a large map of the world to pin on his bedroom wall, he soon got to learn a lot of the capital cities in the world.
Now 18 and at university he is taking history as one of his subjects.

Ian

[Jenny]

The kids thought that painting a portrait was a cool way to introduce a historical topic, especially a historically significant battle like this, told from the viewpoint of an ordinary soldier who ended up getting killed - and that being the most significant thing that ever happened to him. They spent a lot of time unfolding paper and reading about all the different "guys."

J

[Jenny]

Many of my show visitors were intrigued by this guy. Probably because of the hair. I had postcards made to promote this show and Burnham was one of them.