We are pleased to continue our 2022 Lecture Series!

Thursday, September 1st lecture will be a Chautauqua performance by Kim Copel-Harris as “Mary Perkins Bradbury: Convicted of Witchery“

Dinner starts at 4:30 p.m. and lecture starts at 7:00 p.m.

Description:

The Massachusetts village of Salem lost many innocent lives during the infamous witch-hunting era. The same manufactured delusions brought forth at the witch trials preyed upon Mary Perkins Bradbury. She was convicted and sentenced to die on September 9, 1692. In her own words, she will tell of her experiences during the Salem witch hunts, and how she ultimately escaped the gallows.

Bio:

Kim Harris is currently a resident of Genoa, NV and a longtime local to the surrounding Sierra communities. She was born and raised at Donner Lake, CA.

Performing as a character actress and Chautauquan since 2010 via her business “Western History ALIVE!”, Kim regularly portrays several local and national historic figures which include stagecoach driver Charley Parkhurst, Genoa and Nevada suffragist Lillian Virgin Finnegan, frontierswoman Calamity Jane and Libbie Custer, the wife of General George Armstrong Custer.

Kim has also served on the advisory boards of the Lake Tahoe Historical Society and the Douglas County Historical Society. Presently she is the events manager of Dangberg Home Ranch Historic Park in Minden, NV and is the president of the Genoa, NV based Friends of Snowshoe Thompson group.

Lecture starts at 7:00 p.m. and costs $10 per person.

Come early and enjoy dinner before the lecture! We Serve dinner before the lecture at 4:30 p.m., 5:00 p.m., & 5:30

Please fill out this reservation form to sign up for this exciting lecture: