• LCC/Somerville Arts Council Fellowship 2025, Community Benefit Project, at Community, Architecture, Landscape & Arts (CALA) Building, Teele Square, Somerville, September 2025
  • Lincoln Public Library, cosponsored with Lincoln Council on Aging, Bemis Hall, May 2025
  • Emmanuel College, 50th Alumnae Reunion speaker, May 2025
  • Greenleaf Framingham Garden Club, April 2025
  • The Chapel of St. Anne, Arlington Heights, performed with Stephen Kurkjian, Investigative Reporter & Author of Master Thieves, January & May 2025  
  • Belmont Garden Club, Oakley Country Club, May 2024
  • Hopkinton Garden Club, cosponsored with Hopkinton Public Library, April 2024
  • Fairbanks Garden Club, Endicott Estate, Dedham, April 2024
  • Milford Garden Club, cosponsored with Milford Community Center, September 2023 

I was Amelia Earhart’s Sister: Meet Muriel Morrissey

Saturday, November 16, 2024 – Thayer Memorial Library, Lancaster, MA

This program is set in 1963, when Muriel Morrissey (1899-1998) authored a biography of her famous sister, Amelia Earhart. This program runs for 35 minutes and there is also a Q&A portion at the end. Many articles, photos, and press clippings about Amelia Earhart will be on display for patrons to look at before and after the performance.

Amelia Earhart was a popular speaker on the national circuit prior to taking off on her 1937 around-the-world flight, and was lauded as the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic in 1932. Amelia was Inspired at an early age by the suffragist movement. Both sisters closely identified with the generation of “the new woman.”

Our guide for this performance, Jessa Piaia, uses drama to reveal the accomplishments, struggles, and contributions of women to American history. Jessa is acclaimed for re-creating history in the fullest sense and for using solid research, compelling writing, and artistry to bring off a one-woman show. Jessa studied performance at London’s Oval House Theatre and graduated from UMASS Boston. She currently works at Harvard University. Research for this program began in 1992 and was conducted in the Amelia Earhart Collection at the Schlesinger Library, Radcliffe Institute, Cambridge, MA, the Microtext Department at the Boston Public Library, and the Amelia Earhart Branch Library in North Hollywood, CA.