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When:   January 27, 2011 6:30pm-8:00pm
Where:   Fraunces Tavern Museum
54 Pearl Street
Price:   10
Type:   Arts

NOTE: POSTPONED DUE TO SNOW STORM.  NEW DATE WILL BE ANNOUNCED LATER IN THE SPRING

Please join Ilyon Woo (1994) at the New York event for her newly published book, THE GREAT DIVORCE, recently featured on NPR and in The New York Times, The New Yorker and The Wall Street Journal.   

6:00-8:00, with a dramatic presentation at 6:30.  Actors will deliver authentic testimonials by characters such as Eunice Hawley Chapman, the fiery mother who fought the Shakers for her children; her husband James Chapman, who stole the children from their home and secretly fled the state; Mother Lucy Wright, the supreme leader of the Shakers; New York Assemblyman Nathan Williams, who decried Eunice Chapmans sexually inappropriate behavior; and Thomas Jefferson, who weighed in on the controversial affair.

For more information, please visit www.ilyonwoo.com.

...a lively, well-written and engrossing tale....
--The New York Times Book Review

...a superb book--masterfully written, deeply suspenseful....
--Debby Applegate, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Most Famous Man in America: A Biography of Henry Ward Beecher

....This is what history is all about.
--Nathaniel Philbrick, winner of the National Book Award, author of In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex



Additional Info/Contact:
Ilyon Woo at This email address is hidden from email harvesters via JavaScript