Saturday, November 21, 2026 · 2:00 PM – 3:00 PM
Community Room — 100 Webster St., Whitman, MA
Join us for a Waterfall Production, featuring Rita Parisi, as she brings a powerful solo theatrical performance of "Women of '76," a journey into the lives of real women who witnessed, chronicled, and in some cases changed the course of the American Revolution. Audiences will meet voices rarely heard in the history books, including: Baroness Frederika von Reidesel, a German noblewoman whose vivid journals capture the chaos of war, Prudence Wright, the Massachusetts patriot who led a militia of women to capture Tory spies, Nancy Hart, a fearless Georgia frontierswoman who faced down a band of British soldiers and won, Mary Katherine Goddard, a courageous printer and publisher who issued the first printed Declaration of Independence to include the names of the signers, and Mary Gold Almy, a loyalist diarist whose moving firsthand accounts documented the siege of Newport. These stories, both patriot and loyalist, American and foreign, revel a deeper, more complex portrait of the American Revolution. Parisi, an accomplished actress and playwright, has been touring original solo works for over 20 years. Since founding Waterfall Productions in 2005, she has brought history to life for…