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History Center Lecture: Gettysburg - One Woman's War
Professional actress, Michele LaRue, returns to Avalon to share her riveting one-woman performance taken from Elsie Singmaster's 1913 Gettysburg: Stories of the Red Harvest and the Aftermath. In Singmaster’s story, a powerful and specific exploration of a Civil War icon’s physical and emotional terrain, fictional townswoman Mary Bowman lives the war and its legacy—from the first shots at Willoughby Run to the consolation of Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address, to the country’s healing a half century on.
