[vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”America Noted” font_container=”tag:h1|font_size:48px|text_align:center” google_fonts=”font_family:Playfair%20Display%3Aregular%2Citalic%2C700%2C700italic%2C900%2C900italic|font_style:900%20bold%20regular%3A900%3Anormal”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_custom_heading text=”The year is 1842.” font_container=”tag:h1|font_size:36px|text_align:center” google_fonts=”font_family:Playfair%20Display%3Aregular%2Citalic%2C700%2C700italic%2C900%2C900italic|font_style:400%20regular%3A400%3Anormal”][/vc_column][/vc_row][vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]
February 21: John Greenough patents first sewing machine;
February 22: Lincoln gives Temperance Speech;
May 14: The Illustrated London News begins publication;
May 25: Christian Doppler discovers the Doppler Effect;
May 30: John Francis attempts to assassinate Queen Victoria;
Dr. Crawford Long of Georgia uses ether as an anesthetic;
August 29: Britain ends the Opium War against China;
October 15: Karl Marx becomes editor of Rheinische Zeitung;
November 22: Mount St. Helens erupts;
December 7: New York Philharmonic gives its first concert;
and
January 3: Charles Dickens sets sail for America.
At the 2017 festival you can follow along on his journey
and see America through the eyes of Charles Dickens.
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