Story posted Thursday, February 4, 2010
Garden Terrace Hosts Historic Women
Harriet Tubman and Jackie Kennedy, or at least actresses portraying them, will appear at Garden Terrace Banquets in the Elk Grove Pavilion for a program presented by the Elk Grove Farmhouse Historical Museum to commemorate Black History Month and Women's History Month this week and next month.
Tubman, as portrayed by actress Pam Welcome, will discuss slavery, her experiences growing up and African American traditions and end her presentation with a song at Garden Terrace this Friday, Feb. 5, at 7 p.m.
Welcome's character is set in the 1860's near the Civil War period.
Leslie Goddard will portray Jackie Bouvier Kennedy circa 1964, just after her husband President John F. Kennedy's assassination, at Garden Terrace on Friday, Mar. 12 at 7 p.m.
Museum Curator and Coordinator Sandy Denninger said this year would be the first celebrations of Black and Women's history months in at least the last five years.
Last year Denninger attempted to host a women's history event featuring an actress' portrayal of Emily Dickenson but that event was canceled.
The museum hires re-enactors about six times per year to portray both specific historical figures and people of a general time period.
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