BHAM was financed by funds from the National Park Service, National Endowment for the Arts, Missouri State Council on the Arts, St. Louis Arts and Education Council, and city and corporate funds. Elizabeth Gentry Sayad chaired BHAM and coordinated the resources and talents of all of St. Louis' major professional performance organizations. BHAM events included St. Louis Symphony concerts, American religious music, American Indian music, chamber concerts, prose and poetry readings, Erick Hawkins Dance Company, Bicentennial Story Theatre and Showboat Barge, an American film festival, Midnight Carnival, ragtime, jazz, folklore troupes, and choral groups from Germany. Correspondence with Congressman James Symington and St. Louis City Hall. Public relations correspondence and speeches with newspapers, magazines, T.V. networks, and corporations.
Press releases and newsclippings.
Documentary film prospectus, and souvenir program. Local Arrangements 1. Planning Committee 2. General Correspondence 3. James Symington Correspondence 4.