The Wartime Escape:  Margaret and H.A. Rey's Journey from France
by Exhibits USA
On display in the gallery February 3-March 10, 2012

Click here for information about David Nienkamp's program
"Teachers in Nazi Germany" on March 3rd.



More than three generations of Americans have grown up reading the stories of an irrepressible little brown monkey known in this country as "Curious George." But few people know about the incredible journey made by his creators, Margret and H.A. Rey, to escape the Nazi invasion of Paris at the start of World War II.

Stashing a few precious belongings and manuscripts in their knapsacks and the baskets of their bicycles, the Jewish couple fled Paris in June 1940, starting a five month odyssey by bike, train, and boat that would eventually bring them to American shores in October 1940.

The Wartime Escape: Margret and H.A. Rey's Journey from France tells the story of the Rey's journey, featuring 27 framed art prints by artist Allan Drummond and supplemental archival images from the extraordinary holdings of the DeGrummond Collection of Children's Literature at the University of Southern Mississippi.

Joseph Hall as Elvis

Joseph Hall returns to the Opera House stage in this special Valentine’s event. Joseph was in the top ten of NBC’s “America’s Got Talent,” has performed all over the United States, and now has his own successful show in Branson, MO called “Elvis Rock N Remember Tribute.”

February 11, 2012 at 7:30 p.m. – $15

BUY TICKETS