OTTAWA — Children will learn how butterflies were made and make murals during a youth workshop at 10:30 this morning at Courthouse Square Apartments, 235 S. Main St. Wanda Schell will portray Great Depression writer Zora Neale Hurston in today’s opening Chautauqua event. Children will listen to one of Hurston’s folk tales and create a mural afterwards. For the Chautauqua, historians portray important people from the Great Depression and present issues from then and how they relate to now. Other events today include appearances by Will Rogers, played by Doug Watson, at 1 at the Convention and Tourism Center, 2011 E. Logan, and the “Kingfish,” Louisiana governor and dictator Huey Long, played by Fred Krebs, at 3 p.m. at the Carnegie Cultural Center, 515 S. Main St. A combination of historic and contemporary photos in “The Dust Bowl Traveling Exhibition” begins at 10 this morning at the Carnegie and goes through Sunday. Tonight’s tent show will be at 7 at City Park and will feature Watson as Will Rogers spinning his rope and down-home humor and cultural commentary. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, played by Patrick McGinnis, will talk about the New Deal and economic recovery.
