<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <html><head><!-- saved from url=(0032)http://www.gis.net/~mtf/solo.htm --> <title>SoloTogether/History, Politics, Science Alive</title><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> <meta content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <meta content="actor, theatre, theater, science theatre, science theater, living history, historical impersonation, school assembly, school assemblies, curriculum enrichment" name="keywords"> <meta content="The organization for living history performers in New England" name="description"> <meta content="MSHTML 6.00.6000.16525" name="GENERATOR"></head> <body style="color: rgb(255, 238, 238);" alink="#ff0000" link="#0000ff" vlink="#ff00ff"> <center><img alt="SoloTogether" src="solo_files/solologo.gif" border="0" height="100" width="600"></center> <center> <table border="0"> <tbody> <tr border="0"> <td border="0"><img alt="Mike Francis as Galileo" src="solo_files/Sm2.jpg" border="0" height="200" width="160"></td> <td border="0"><img alt="Jessa Piaia as Amelia Earhart" src="solo_files/ae1.jpg" border="0" height="200" width="160"></td> <td border="0"><img alt="Belinda West as Emily Dickinson" src="solo_files/emily1.jpg" border="0" height="200" width="160"></td> <td border="0"><img alt="Ted Zalewski as Teddy Roosevelt" src="solo_files/ted1.jpg" border="0" height="200" width="160"></td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </center> <blockquote> <p><font color="#000000">Welcome to the home page of New England's solo performers, historical interpreters and living history educators. <b><i>SoloTogether</i></b> is a cooperative effort of New England's professional performing artists dedicated to bringing history, art and science to life. Schools, museums, libraries and civic organizations will find programs here to complement their curricula, exhibits, collections and special events.</font></p> <p></p> <p style="margin-bottom: 0in;"> </p> <hr> <p></p> </blockquote> <h2><b><i><font color="#000000">Living History Characters You Will Meet!</font></i></b></h2> <blockquote> <ul> <font color="#000000"> <li><font color="#000000"><b><a href="http://crankyyankees.atspace.com/">John Quincy Adams</a> , 19th Century, Presidency, History</b></font> </li> <li><font color="#000000"><b><a href="http://ilovehistory.atspace.com/ladams.html">Louisa Adams</a> , 19th Century, Presidency, History</b></font> </li> <li><font color="#000000"><b><a href="http://www.coraconnection.com/md">Louisa May Alcott</a> , 19th Century, Literature, History</b></font> </li> <li><b><font color="#000000"><a href="http://www.womeninhistoryprograms.com/anthony.html">Susan B. Anthony</a>, 19th Century, History, Politics, Woman's Issues (with Jessa Piaia)</font></b> </li> <li><b><font color="#000000"><a href="http://www.susanbanthonytheinvincible.com/index.htm">Susan B. Anthony</a> , 19th Century, History, Politics, Woman's Issues (with Sally Matson)</font></b> </li> <li><b><font color="#000000"><a href="http://heroicwomen.atspace.com/m-antin.htm">Mary Antin, Russian Immigrant</a>, 20th Century, Immigration</font></b> </li> <li><b><font color="#000000"><a href="http://www.ptbarnum.org/">P.T. Barnum</a>, 19th Century, Circus, Museums, Popular Culture, Finance</font></b> </li> <li><b><font color="#000000"><a href="http://www.womeninhistoryprograms.com/barton.html">Clara Barton</a>, 20th Century, Red Cross</font></b><b> </b> </li> <li><b><font color="#000000"><a href="http://www.coraconnection.com/md">Calamity Jane Cannary</a>, 19th Century, western expansion, History</font></b> </li> <li><font color="#000000"><b><a href="http://crankyyankees.atspace.com/">Calvin Coolidge</a> , 20th Century, Presidency, History</b></font> </li> <li><b><font color="#000000"><a href="http://wordandsong.atspace.com/cushman.html">Charlotte Cushman</a>, 19th Century, History, Music, Theater</font></b><b> </b> </li> <li><b><font color="#000000"><a href="http://www.spacemanning.net/livhis.html">Christopher Columbus</a>, 15th Century, History</font></b> </li> <li><b><font color="#000000"><a href="http://www.spacemanning.net/livhis.html">Leonardo da Vinci</a>, 16th Century, History</font></b> </li> <li><b><font color="#000000"><a href="http://www.historyunwrapped.com/about.html">Emily Dickinson</a> , 19th Century, Literature, History</font></b> </li> <li><b><font color="#000000"><a href="http://www.womeninhistoryprograms.com/dyer.html">Mary Dyer</a> , 17th Century, American History</font></b> </li> <li><b><font color="#000000"><a href="http://www.womeninhistoryprograms.com/earhart.html">Amelia Earhart</a>, 20th Century, History, Woman's Issues</font></b> </li> <li><b><font color="#000000"><a href="http://crankyyankees.atspace.com/">Edward Everett</a>, 19th Century, History</font></b> </li> <li><b><font color="#000000"><a href="http://www.spacemanning.net/livhis.html">Galileo Galilei</a>, 17th Century, History, (w/Paul Manning)</font></b> </li> <li><b><font color="#000000"><a href="http://www.Mike-Francis.com/sm.htm">Galileo Galilei</a> , 17th Century, Astronomy, Science, Mathematics, History (w/Mike Francis)</font></b> </li> <li><b><font color="#000000"><a href="http://www.womeninhistoryprograms.com/gardner.html">Isabella Stewart Gardner</a>, 20th Century, American History, Art</font></b> </li> <li><b><font color="#000000"><a href="http://www.michelashkar.com/">Kahil Gibran</a>, 20th Century, Literature, Philosophy, Immigration</font></b> </li> <li><b><font color="#000000"><a href="http://www.historyunwrapped.com/about.html">Dorothy Quincy Hancock</a> , 18th Century, American History</font></b> </li> <li><b><font color="#000000"><a href="http://www.coraconnection.com/md">Janis Joplin</a> , 20th Century, Music, History</font></b> </li> <li><b><font color="#000000"><a href="http://www.jfkexperience.com/">John Fitzgerald Kennedy </a>20th Century, Presidential</font></b><b> </b> </li> <li><b><font color="#000000"><a href="http://heroicwomen.atspace.com/larcom.htm">Lois Larcom, Lower Mills Boardinghouse Keeper</a>, 19th Century, Woman's Issues</font></b> </li> <li><strong><a href="http://his-story.atspace.com/page5.html">Abraham Lincoln</a>, 19th Century, History (w/Steve Wood) </strong> </li> <li><b><font color="#000000"><a href="http://www.spacemanning.net/livhis.html">Abraham Lincoln</a>, 19th Century, History (w/Paul Manning)</font></b> </li> <li><b><font color="#000000"><a href="http://home.earthlink.net/%7Emfkennedy">Abraham Lincoln</a>, 19th Century, History (w/Michael Kennedy)</font></b> </li> <li><strong><a href="http://his-story.atspace.com/page10.html">Mary Todd Lincoln</a>, 19th Century, History</strong>&nbsp;</li> <li><span style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://heroicwomen.atspace.com/low.htm">Juliette "Daisy" Low</a>, 20th Century, Girl Scouts</span></li> <li><font color="#000000"><a href="http://wordandsong.atspace.com/momgoose.html"><strong>Mother Goose</strong></a><strong>, 18th, 19th and 20th Century, History, Music</strong></font><strong>&nbsp;</strong> </li> <li><b><font color="#000000"><a href="http://heroicwomen.atspace.com/m-lyon.htm">Mary Lyon of Mount Holyoke</a>, 19th Century, Woman's Issues</font></b> </li> <li><b><font color="#000000"><a href="http://heroicwomen.atspace.com/adair.htm">Bethenia Owens-Adair, MD</a> , 19th Century, American History, Woman's Issues</font></b> </li> <li><b><font color="#000000"><a href="http://www.pythagorasofsamos.com/">Pythagoras</a>, History, Mathematics, Science, Music</font></b><b> </b> </li> <li><b><font color="#000000"><a href="http://elizabeth1.atspace.com">Queen Elizabeth I</a>, 16th Century, History</font></b> </li> <li><b><font color="#000000"><a href="http://www.womeninhistoryprograms.com/revere.html">Rachel Walker Revere</a>, 18th Century, History, Politics, Woman's Issues</font></b> </li> <li><b><font color="#000000"><a href="http://meeteleanor.atspace.com">Eleanor Roosevelt</a>, 20th Century, History, Politics, Woman's Issues (w/Elena Dodd)</font></b> </li> <li><b><font color="#000000"><a href="http://ilovehistory.atspace.com/firstlady.html">Eleanor Roosevelt</a>, 20th Century, History, Politics, Woman's Issues (w/Judy Bernstein)</font></b> </li> <li><b><font color="#000000"><a href="http://tedzale.atspace.com/index.html">Teddy Roosevelt</a>, 20th Century, History, Politics</font></b> </li> <li><b><font color="#000000"><a href="http://tedzale.atspace.com/vincent.html">Postman Roulin</a>, 19th Century, History, Art</font></b> </li> <li><font color="#000000"><b><a href="http://www.womeninhistoryprograms.com/rowson.html">Susanna Rowson</a>, 18th-19th Century, Literature</b></font><b>&nbsp;</b> </li> <li><b><font color="#000000"><a href="http://www.heritageperformers.com/">Gilbert Stuart</a>, 18th and early 19th Century, Portrait Painter, History, Politics and Art</font></b> </li> <li><b><font color="#000000"><a href="http://heroicwomen.atspace.com/sullivan.htm">Annie Sullivan</a>, Teacher, 20th Century, Woman's Issues, Disability Awareness</font></b></li> <li><b><font color="#000000"><a href="http://a-woman.atspace.com">Sojourner Truth</a>, 18th Century, Abolition, History &nbsp;</font></b><font color="#000000"><strong>!!<font color="#ff6666">NEW</font>!!</strong></font></li> <li><b><font color="#000000"><a href="http://www.spacemanning.net/livhis.html">Mark Twain</a>, 19th Century, History (with Paul Manning)</font></b> </li> <li><font color="#000000"><b><a href="http://www.marktwaintalks.com/">Mark Twain</a>, 19th Century, History (with Bern Budd)</b></font> </li> <li><font color="#000000"><a href="http://www.puritan-tour.com/"><strong>Ann Vassall</strong></a><strong>, 17th Century, History, Puritans&nbsp;</strong> </font> </li> <li><b><font color="#000000"><a href="http://heroicwomen.atspace.com/rwalker.htm">Rachel Walker, Paul Revere's Mother-In-Law</a>, 18th Century, History, American Revolution</font></b> </li> <li><b><font color="#000000"><a href="http://www.spacemanning.net/livhis.html">Sir Tom of Warwick</a>, 14th Century, History</font></b> </li> <li><b><font color="#000000"><u><a href="http://crankyyankees.atspace.com/">Daniel Webster</a></u>, 19th Century, History, Politics</font></b> </li> <li><b><font color="#000000"><u><a href="http://www.unlaunchedvoices.com/page2.html">Walt Whitman</a></u>, 19th Century, Literature (w/Stephen Collins)</font></b> </li> <li><b><font color="#000000"><u><a href="http://www.members.aol.com/waltwhitmanofli">Walt Whitman</a></u>, 19th Century, Literature (w/Darrel Blaine Ford)</font></b> </li> <li><strong><a href="http://www.abigailbygail.com">Abigail Whitney: A Colonial Experience</a>, 18th Century, History</strong>&nbsp;<strong>!!<font color="#ff6666">NEW</font>!!</strong> </li> <li><b><font color="#000000"><a href="http://www.spacemanning.net/livhis.html">Wilbur or Orville Wright</a>, 20th Century, History, Flight</font></b> </li> </font> </ul> </blockquote> <h2><font color="#000000"><b><i><font color="#000000">Solo Programs of Special Interest</font></i></b></font></h2> <blockquote> <font color="#000000"> </font> <ul> <font color="#000000"><font color="#000000"> <li><font color="#000000"><strong><a href="http://his-story.atspace.com/page6.html">Abraham and Mary Lincoln: The Long and the Short of It</a>, 19th Century, History</strong>&nbsp;&nbsp; </font> </li> <li><font color="#000000"><a href="http://his-story.atspace.com/page7.html"><strong>Atribute to Sarah Josepha Hale</strong></a><strong>, 19th Century, literature&nbsp;&nbsp;</strong> </font><font color="#000000" face="Arial" size="2"> </font></li> <li><font color="#000000" face="Arial" size="2"><font color="#000000"><font face="Times New Roman"><strong><font size="3"><a href="http://his-story.atspace.com/page8.html">A Soldier's Mother Tells Her Story</a>, 19th Century, literature&nbsp;&nbsp;</font></strong></font></font> </font></li> <li><font color="#000000" face="Arial" size="2"><font color="#000000"><font face="Times New Roman"><strong><font size="3"><a href="http://his-story.atspace.com/page11.html">Our National Thanksgiving</a>, 19th Century,&nbsp;American History&nbsp;</font></strong></font></font> </font></li> <li><font color="#000000" face="Arial" size="2"><strong><font face="Times New Roman" size="3"><a href="http://his-story.atspace.com/page9.html">Folktales from around the World</a>, Storytelling&nbsp;</font></strong>&nbsp;</font> </li> <li><font color="#000000"><a href="http://www.jojosdreamcart.com/"><strong>JoJo's Dreamcart</strong></a><strong>, Motivational childrens' programs</strong></font></li> <li><font color="#000000"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><a href="http://www.royalteaparties.net/victorian_tea.html">The Etiquette Expert of 1890</a>, American History, Etiquette</span><br> </font></li> <li><b><font color="#000000"><a href="http://www.trainedfleas.com/">The ACME Miniature Circus</a>, American History, Humor, Sideshow, Popular Culture</font></b> </li> <li><b><font color="#000000"><a href="http://ilovehistory.atspace.com/dream.html">The American Dream</a>, Immigration</font></b> </li> <li><b><font color="#000000"><a href="http://ilovehistory.atspace.com/funny.html">A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the White House</a> , American History, Humor</font></b> </li> <li><b><font color="#000000"><a href="http://ilovehistory.atspace.com/dinner.htm">Dinner at the White House</a>, American History</font></b></li> <li><b><font color="#000000"><a href="http://ilovehistory.atspace.com/food.htm">Food Fancies of the Famous from Caesar to Sinatra</a>, History, Humor</font></b></li> <li><b><font color="#000000"><a href="http://ilovehistory.atspace.com/letters.html">Great American Letters</a>, American History<br> </font></b></li> <li><b><font color="#000000"><a href="http://goldendays.atspace.com">The Golden Days</a>, 20th Century, History, Entertainment, Music, Television</font></b> </li> <li><b><font color="#000000"><a href="http://ilovehistory.atspace.com/hail.html">Hail to the Ladies</a>, American History, the White House</font></b> </li> <li><b><font color="#000000"><a href="http://ilovehistory.atspace.com/wedding.html">Here Comes the American Bride</a>, American History</font> </b> </li> <li><b><font color="#000000"><a href="http://miniminstrels.atspace.com/">Mini Minstrel Show</a>, 19th and 20th Century, History</font></b> </li> <li><font color="#000000"><b><a href="http://www.celiaslattery.com/">Moving Target</a>, The Sixties, History, Music</b></font></li> <li><font color="#000000"><b><a href="http://liminmo.com/php/shows.php">Night River</a>, Immigration, Chinese American History<br> </b></font></li> <li><b><font color="#000000"><a href="http://ilovehistory.atspace.com/seven.html">The Seven Stages of Life</a>, Life</font></b> </li> <li><b><font color="#000000"><a href="http://www.Mike-Francis.com/sa.htm">The Stargazer's Apprentice</a> , Astronomy</font></b> </li> <li><b><font color="#000000"><a href="http://ilovehistory.atspace.com/pbost.html">The Proper Bostonians</a>, American History</font></b> </li> <li><b><font color="#000000"><a href="http://www.gis.net/%7Emtf/prop.htm">Proper Ladies</a>, 19th Century, Music, History, Women's Perspectives</font></b> </li> <li><b><font color="#000000"><a href="http://ilovehistory.atspace.com/coahn.html">Yankee Doodle Dandy</a>- A humorous sketch of the life of George M. Cohan</font></b> </li> </font></font> </ul> </blockquote> <center> <p><font color="#000000"><a href="http://my.calendars.net/solocal"><img alt="A calendar of SoloTogether events" src="solo_files/ical2.jpg" border="0" height="39" width="40"></a><br> <b><a href="http://my.calendars.net/solocal">SoloTogether Calendar</a></b></font></p> </center> <p></p> <center> <table border="0"> <tbody> <tr border="0"> <td border="0"><img alt="Celia Slattery in Moving Target" src="solo_files/celia.jpg" border="0" height="200" width="160"></td> <td border="0"><img alt="Jim Cooke as Calvin Coolidge" src="solo_files/Cooke-1.jpg" border="0" height="200" width="160"></td> <td border="0"><img alt="Mel Simons - The Golden Days" src="solo_files/mel1.jpg" border="0" height="200" width="160"></td> <td border="0"><img alt="Norm Conrads Mini Minstrals" src="solo_files/norm1.jpg" border="0" height="200" width="160"></td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </center> <hr> <h2><font color="#000000"><b><i><font color="#000000">Our Historical Performers</font></i></b></font></h2> <center> <table border="1" cols="4" width="977"> <tbody> <tr> <td height="23" width="299"><a href="http://ilovehistory.atspace.com/"><font color="#0000ff">Judy Bernstein</font></a></td> <td height="23" width="214"><a href="http://www.pythagorasofsamos.com/"><font color="#0000ff">Josh Brackett</font></a></td> <td height="23" width="200"><a href="http://www.marktwaintalks.com/"><font color="#0000ff">Bern Budd</font></a></td> <td height="23" width="236"><a href="http://heroicwomen.atspace.com/"><font color="#0000ff">Kate Carney</font></a></td> </tr> <tr> <td height="23" width="299"><a href="http://www.unlaunchedvoices.com/history.html"><font color="#0000ff">Stephen Collins</font></a></td> <td height="23" width="214"><a href="http://miniminstrels.atspace.com/"><font color="#0000ff">Norm Conrad</font></a></td> <td height="23" width="200"><a href="http://crankyyankees.atspace.com/"><font color="#0000ff">Jim Cooke</font></a></td> <td height="23" width="236"><a href="http://www.heritageperformers.com/"><font color="#0000ff">Alex Daunis</font></a></td> </tr> <tr> <td height="23" width="299"><a href="http://meeteleanor.atspace.com/about.html"><font color="#0000ff">Elena Dodd</font></a></td> <td height="23" width="214"><a href="http://www.coraconnection.com/md"><font color="#0000ff">Marianne Donnelly</font></a></td> <td height="23" width="200"><a href="mailto:dubeaslincoln@yahoo.com"><font color="#0000ff">Lewis Dube</font></a></td> <td height="23" width="236"><a href="http://www.michelashkar.com/"><font color="#0000ff">Michel El-Ashkar</font></a></td> </tr> <tr> <td height="23" width="299"><a href="http://members.aol.com/waltwhitmanofli"><font color="#0000ff">Darrel Blaine Ford</font></a></td> <td height="23" width="214"><a href="http://www.Mike-Francis.com"><font color="#0000ff">Mike Francis</font></a></td> <td height="23" width="200"><a href="http://www.acmeclown.com/bio.html"><font color="#0000ff">Adam Gertsacov</font></a></td> <td height="23" width="236"><a href="http://wordandsong.atspace.com/"><font color="#0000ff">Deborah Anne Goss</font></a></td> </tr> <tr> <td height="23" width="299"><a href="http://www.gis.net/%7Emtf/prop.htm"><font color="#0000ff">Anabel Graetz</font></a></td> <td height="23" width="214"><font color="#000000"><a href="http://abigailbygail.com/about.htm">Gail Hamel</a></font></td> <td height="23" width="200"><a href="http://home.earthlink.net/%7Emfkennedy"><font color="#0000ff">Michael Kennedy</font></a></td> <td height="23" width="236"><a href="http://www.jojosdreamcart.com/"><font color="#0000ff">JoJo LaRiccia</font></a></td> </tr> <tr> <td height="23" width="299"><a href="http://www.jfkexperience.com/"><font color="#0000ff">Mike Lowe</font></a></td> <td height="23" width="214"><a href="http://www.spacemanning.net/"><font color="#0000ff">Paul Manning</font></a></td> <td height="23" width="200"><a href="http://www.susanbanthonytheinvincible.com/aboutsallymatson.htm"><font color="#0000ff">Sally Matson</font></a></td> <td height="23" width="236"><a href="http://elizabeth1.atspace.com"><font color="#0000ff">Marilyn Murphy Meardon</font></a></td> </tr> <tr> <td height="23" width="299"><a href="http://liminmo.com/"><font color="#0000ff">Li Min Mo</font></a></td> <td height="23" width="214"><a href="http://www.royalteaparties.net/"><font></font></a><font><a href="http://www.puritan-tour.com/about.htm"><font color="#0000ff">Linda Palmer</font></a></font></td> <td height="23" width="200"><a href="http://www.womeninhistoryprograms.com/about.html"><font></font></a><font><a href="http://www.royalteaparties.net/"><font color="#0000ff">Janet Parnes</font></a></font></td> <td height="23" width="236"><a href="http://goldendays.atspace.com"><font></font></a><font><a href="http://www.womeninhistoryprograms.com/about.html"><font color="#0000ff">Jessa Piaia</font></a></font></td> </tr> <tr> <td height="23" width="299"><a href="http://goldendays.atspace.com/">Mel Simons</a></td> <td height="23" width="214"><a href="http://www.historyunwrapped.com/bio.html"><font><font color="#0000ff"></font></font></a><font><font color="#0000ff"><a href="http://www.celiaslattery.com/"><font color="#0000ff">Celia Slattery</font></a></font></font></td> <td height="23" width="200"><a href="http://his-story.atspace.com/page2.html"><font></font></a><font><a href="http://www.historyunwrapped.com/bio.html"><font color="#0000ff">Belinda West</font></a></font></td> <td height="23" width="236"><a href="http://his-story.atspace.com/page2.html">Steve Wood</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td height="23" width="299"><a href="http://his-story.atspace.com/page10.html">Sharon Wood</a></td> <td height="23" width="214"><a href="http://tedzale.atspace.com/ted.html"><font></font></a><font><a href="http://a-woman.atspace.com/"><font color="#0000ff">Katheryn Woods</font></a></font></td> <td height="23" width="200"><font><a href="http://tedzale.atspace.com/ted.html"><font color="#0000ff">Ted Zalewski</font></a></font></td> <td height="23" width="236"></td> </tr> </tbody> </table> </center> <hr> <h2><font color="#000000"><b><i><font color="#000000">Next MEETING </font></i></b></font></h2> <font color="#000000">The&nbsp;next SoloTogether meeting will be on January 7th, 2008&nbsp;at the <a href="http://www.longfellowfriends.org/index.php"><strong>Longfellow House</strong></a>, 105 Brattle Street, Cambridge, from 7:00 - 8:45 pm.&nbsp;&nbsp;If you're a solo performer interested in attending or would like to learn more about SoloTogether please contact:</font> <center><b><a href="mailto:mfrancis@solotogether.com">mfrancis@SoloTogether.com</a></b></center> <center><a href="http://www.gis.net/%7Emtf/meeting.htm"><big>Notes from our last meeting</big></a></center> <p><font color="#000000">Everyone at SoloTogether would like to give special thanks to <a href="http://www.bentley.edu/">Bentley College</a> and the <a href="http://www.nps.gov/long/">Longfellow National Historic Site</a> for their generous support of living history theatre.</font></p> <hr> <b><font color="#000000">©Mike Francis 2007</font></b> </body></html>