WOMEN OF THEIR TIME

Coming To America : Ellis Island – In the best of times, being processed through Ellis Island was a difficult procedure. This program highlights one woman’s journey through the process of leaving her homeland and immigrating to America in the early 1900s. We learn of her hopes, her dreams, and then her fears when she finds a complication she hadn’t expected.

Ordinary Woman - This dramatic presentation introduces you to an early 1900s schoolmarm. She has spent the latter part of the 1890s maintaining a "teacher's respectability" within her community. As the new century begins, she looks at where she has been and accepts the challenge of becoming a teacher in a "larger" classroom. The woman in the drama is fictional, but the general outline of the script was taken from the diary of a former school teacher who lived in the 1860s. She talks about her classroom, her career opportunities and marriage.