The Dancers of Sycamore Street - L'Enfant, Julie
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Sometimes, looking back at one's life, one can recall the precise end of childhood. For Meredith, that time is 1955, when she is fourteen years old and her quiet, predictable life revolving around high school and ballet classes is upended by a visit from a famous choreographer. In Middleton, a medium-sized city in north Louisiana, his great world of professional ballet is viewed as remote, exotic and not quite respectable. Beautifully capturing a long-ago time and place where mothers were not supposed to work and propriety ruled, "The Dancers of Sycamore Street" is a poignant, witty and engaging story of a young girl's coming of age.…mehr

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Sometimes, looking back at one's life, one can recall the precise end of childhood. For Meredith, that time is 1955, when she is fourteen years old and her quiet, predictable life revolving around high school and ballet classes is upended by a visit from a famous choreographer. In Middleton, a medium-sized city in north Louisiana, his great world of professional ballet is viewed as remote, exotic and not quite respectable. Beautifully capturing a long-ago time and place where mothers were not supposed to work and propriety ruled, "The Dancers of Sycamore Street" is a poignant, witty and engaging story of a young girl's coming of age.
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Julie L'Enfant is the author of seven books, including The Gag Family: German-Bohemian Artists in America (2002), Pioneer Modernists: Minnesota's First Generation of Women Artists (2011), Other Realities: The Art of Paul S. Kramer (2013) and, with co-author Jaden Hansen, Persistence of Vision: The Art of Bettye Olson (2017). Her essays, articles, and reviews have appeared in such publications as Minnesota History, Nineteenth-Century Art Worldwide: A Journal of Visual Culture, and Woman's Art Journal. L'Enfant was chair of liberal arts and professor of art history at the College of Visual Arts in Saint Paul. She has given numerous lectures in the Twin Cities and beyond on nineteenth- and twentieth-century art.