Ann Moore Innovative Lives Presentation
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content: Jerome and Dorothy Lemelson Center for the Study of Invention and Innovation.
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content: Berger, Sondra
label: Collection Creator
content: Moore, Ann, 1940-
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content: Moore, Mike
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content: Ann Moore Innovative Lives Presentation
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content: Ann Moore Innovative Lives Presentation / Series 4: Reference videos (viewing copies)
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content: 1 Video recording (Total Running Time: 33:03)
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content: 1999 October 15
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content: Box 4, Item RV 706.7
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives Center, National Museum of American History
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content: Archival materials
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content: Video recordings
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content: Ann and Mike Moore's Innovative Lives Presentation at the National Museum of African Art to children from Burrville Elementary School in Washington, D.C., and Barrett Elementary School in Arlington, Virginia. Sondra Berger introduces the program. Ann Moore discusses her childhood, how she improvised to make toys, and why she joined the Peace Corps. Mike and Ann Moore show slides from their time in Togo, including a map of Africa, photographs of children in school, markets, Ann teaching a nutrition class, mothers carrying and nursing their babies, the Snugli, Ann Moore's mother Lucy Aukerman, and the Weego. They demonstrate a Togolese greeting and teach it to the kids. Sing African songs with the children accompanying on tambourines and rattles.