Women and War Brown Bag Lunch and Round Table Series begins July 11 (through August 15)

Brown Bag Lunch and Round Table Series
Bring your lunch and your ideas. Coffee and cookies served

Wednesdays, starting July 11 through August 15 from 12-1pm

Women and War: Discuss the roles women civilians played during World War II with playwright Catherine Ladnier. Share your letters, memories, and memorabilia. Enjoy live readings of letters, plays, hear service women's stories, and USO music favorites.   

July 11 

Catherine Ladnier and her co-author, Paul Janensch, Professor Emeritus of Journalism at Quinnipiac University, read highlights from their play Dear Eva, previously performed at the Smithsonian, and they tell how to turn letters into a play.

July 18 

Read the letters of Japanese-American students at Mills College to its President, Aurelia Reinhardt, during their internment.

July 25 

Service women profiled in Westchester Women & War tell their stories and participants share their own stories about war.

August 1 

Peek at the romance fueled by letters between Catherine Ladnier's father, Harry, and the women who contributed to the war effort on the home front. Judy Hart, women studies historian, joins us to explore the life and loves of Rosie the Riveters back home.

August 8 

Live music. Wartime USO favorites, followed by audience participation.

August 15 

Look at the women who carried on while their men were at war and were instrumental in keeping up their soldiers' spirits. Following, participants will put the finishing touches on their group scrapbook.   

Catherine Ladnier, Playwright

A confirmed theater junkie, Catherine Ladnier got the idea for her play, Dear Eva, from reading the letters and press clippings about World War II, treasures she found in the home of her mother Eva Lee Brown of Easley, South Carolina. Catherine decided to tell the stories of the "ordinary" folks who were called upon to do extraordinary things in a world consumed by war. A graduate of Mills College and Harvard University, Catherine works as a securities compliance consultant and serves on the Advisory Council of Lyndhurst, a property of the National Trust for Historic Preservation, Connecticut's Beardsley Zoo, and on the President's Advisory Council of the National Wildlife Federation.

This program is FREE with Museum Admission.

Museum Admission:
Adults $5
Seniors 62+,Youth 5-16 $3  
Members FREE

Proud participant of Blue Star Museums: Offering FREE admission to all active duty military personnel and their families through Labor Day, September 3, 2012.

The Hudson River Museum is located at 511 Warburton Ave in Yonkers, NY. 

For more information and directions: http://www.hrm.org/information.html