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Days of Discovery



These programs are one-day explorations of the best America's cities have to offer. Follow the links below to enjoy a generous daylong helping of civic culture and the arts in one of the country's signature communities.



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Arizona


Oliver! At the Broadway Palm Dinner Theater



Photos courtesy of istockphoto.com

California - Northern


Building Bridges To Islam In The Sacramento Valley



Photo by Ryan Miller/Capture Imaging.

California - Southern


Treasures Of The La Brea Tar Pits



Photo courtesy of the Pacific Symphony.

California - Southern


An Evening with the Pacific Symphony



Photos courtesy of the Orange County Performing Arts center.

California - Southern


The Rain in Spain: Celebrating 50 Years of My Fair Lady



Popocatepetl. Photo credit: Wesley Bocxe-Photo Researchers Inc.

California - Southern


A Day in Pompeii



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Connecticut


Land, Water and Sky At Mystic Seaport



Connecticut


Frozen In: Captain Comer And The Hudson Bay Inuit



Connecticut


American Impressionists In Giverny, France And Old Lyme, Connecticut



Connecticut


All Things Bright and Beautiful: California Impressionist Paintings from The Irvine Museum



District of Columbia


Conserving Our History



District of Columbia


American Evolution: A History Through Art



District of Columbia


Espionage And Identity Transformation: Two Former CIA Chiefs Of Disguise Tell All



Florida


Architecture and Restoration, Behind the Scenes at the Edison & Ford Winter Estate



Georgia


Travel the World with the Atlanta Symphony



Illinois


Big Picture: A New View of Painting in Chicago



Illinois


150 Years of Science Exploration and Education: Pioneers in Natural History



Maryland


Your Marvelous Mouth: The New Frontier of Oral Longevity



Maryland


Inside The Peabody Institute



Massachusetts


What A Weapon Is The Ballot: Political Campaign Songs From Washington To Nixon



Massachusetts


Down to the Sea



Massachusetts


One if by Island, Two if By Seashore: The Military History of Boston Harbor



Massachusetts


Building Bridges to Islam at the Islamic Center of Boston



Massachusetts


An Evening With The Boston Pops



Massachusetts


The Saturday Club: Literary History Along Boston’s Freedom Trail



Massachusetts


Behind the Scenes at the Museum of Russian Icons



Massachusetts


Building Bridges to Islam at the Worcester Islamic Center



Minnesota


Guthrie Theater presents The Secret Fall of Constance Wilde



Minnesota


Guthrie Theater presents The Government Inspector



New Jersey


A Taste of the Ironbound



New Jersey


Trenton Makes-The World Takes



New Jersey


Immigration and Public Health: Completing the Ellis Island Story



New Jersey


Alice Paul: New Jersey's Heroine for Equality



New York


Theodore Roosevelt: At Home on Sagamore Hill



New York


Celebrating the Decorative Arts



New York


Discovering Abstract Expressionism



New York


The New York Philharmonic: SUMMERTIME CLASSICS



New York


Lafayette: America’s Forgotten Founding Father



New York


East Meets West: The Woven Splendor of Eastern Textiles And The Medieval Art That Influenced Them



New York


Moore In America: Monumental Sculpture At The New York Botanical Garden



Ohio


Historic Spring Grove’s … Best Kept Secrets



Ohio


Caves of South Bass Island



Ohio


Snakes of the Lake Erie Islands with a focus on LEWS



Ohio


Butterflies and Dragonflies



Pennsylvania


Building to Educate: Girard College & The Wagner Free Institute of Science



Pennsylvania


The Clay Studio and You



Pennsylvania


Hollywood Goes To Court



Pennsylvania


The Revolutionary War and 18th Century Medicine



Wisconsin


Frank Lloyd Wright: An Autobiography in Wood and Stone



Wisconsin


The Posters of Leonetto Cappiello





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