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  "Afternoon or Evening With Sarah Davis"

Spend an "Afternoon or Evening with Sarah Davis" and enjoy a unique theatrical experience.  This humorous, one-woman, original play takes the audience back to America's Gilded Age and makes history come alive.  Patricia Schley, dressed in period Victorian costume, portrays Sarah Davis in a half-hour presentation. 

 The program is performed at your chosen location and is available to businesses, groups, clubs, and organizations by reservation only.  The program is free, but a donation is encouraged.

 Sarah Davis was a fascinating Victorian "lady," who lived in the era of horse-drawn carriages, flickering gaslight, and stately mansions.  She was a friend of Abraham Lincoln and of many other famous Americans as well.  Bloomington was a sleepy frontier-town when Sarah arrived there in the 1830s, as the young bride of a struggling attorney.  By the time of her death forty-one years later, the city had grown to several thousand, and Sarah was the wife of a millionaire.

 Although she led a very private life, Sarah Davis played an important public role.  She performed the traditional duties of wife and mother but was also adept at managing the business affairs of a country estate.  Even though she vigorously opposed women's suffrage, her accomplishments (like those of other Victorian wives and mothers) helped to pave the way for women's changing roles in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

 Join us for "An Afternoon or Evening With Sarah Davis," and enjoy a theatrical experience you won't want to miss.