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A Visit with Louisa May Alcott

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With support from: Lowell Institute
Date and time
Thursday, November 29, 2018

Enjoy this living history experience to mark the 186th birthday of author Louisa May Alcott. Jan Turnquist, performer and director of Orchard House (the Alcott family's historic home in Concord, MA), brings to life Alcott's life in stories - from her unconventional upbringing in poverty, to the family love that inspired her to write the American classic _Little Women_. As an added feature, Jan shares stories from her own experience working as a research consultant and an extra on the forthcoming (2019) [Columbia Pictures version of Little Women](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3281548/ "IMDB Little Women 2019"), starring Saoirse Ronan, Emma Watson, Florence Pugh, Eliza Scanlen, Timothée Chalamet, Laura Dern, Bob Odenkirk, Chris Cooper, and Meryl Streep. This event has been made possible with funding from the Lowell Institute.

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Jan Turnquist is the founder and director of InterAct Performances, an organization devoted to the wonderful impact that living history presentations and meaningful seminars can have in the worlds of education, business, and personal enrichment. Jan is an educator, actress, and historian. She holds her teaching certification and degrees in English and Comparative Literature from the University of Wisconsin. She has been featured in television roles on PBS, the Fox Network, and several BBC productions. Now a consultant to Orchard House Museum, where Louisa May Alcott wrote *Little Women* in 1868, she spent 18 years on staff there as Living History Coordinator, Education Coordinator, and Historic Interpreter. Through InterAct Performances, Jan currently leads programs across the country. Her living history portrayals are popular with schools, universities, libraries, museums, civic groups, conventions, senior groups and the like. She has also developed a successful offering of seminars and workshops in order to share more of her natural talents, developed skills, and researched material with teachers, business people, students, elder hostel attenders and others.
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