Thursday – March 2

Today’s famous storyteller is Joanne Lannin.  She wrote for the Portland Press Herald for 23 years and won numerous awards for her writing.  She has taught writing at the University of New Hampshire, the University of Southern Maine, St. Joseph’s College, and here at Bonny Eagle High School.  She currently works with and advises the students who write for our school newspaper.  Ms. Lannin has written four books about women in sports.  They are Billie Jean King:  Tennis Pioneer, A History of Basketball for Bloomers, Finding a Way to Play:  The Pioneering Spirit of Women in Basketball, and her latest book Who Let Them In?  Pathbreaking Women in Sports Journalism.  Next Wednesday afternoon, Ms. Lannin is doing a program with the US Archives.  Please see Ms. Cyr for the link to register for that program.

 

Tomorrow we will learn about Elizabeth Keckley, seamstress to Mrs. Mary Lincoln.