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Before Emily Post became THE expert on etiquette, she was a journalist and one of her assignments was to drive from New York to San Francisco. That was easier said than done in 1915, since the roads were unbuilt, the car unsuitable, and her attitudes very upper class East Coast.
Jane Lancaster is an award-winning teacher, researcher, and writer. She received a PhD from Brown University, writing a dissertation on the life of engineer Lillian Moller Gilbreth (the mother of twelve celebrated in Cheaper by the Dozen). Her work on Rhode Island women has been published in periodicals ranging from the Providence Journal to the Journal of American History.
Availability: is sometimes away during the summer months Needs: slide projector and screen; lighted lectern/water
Needs: slide projector and screen; lighted lectern/water