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Margaret "Molly " Brown
1867-1932
Reformer Activist Philanthropist

The "Molly Brown" of myth and legend is often portrayed as an eccentric character,

a social outcast who struggled for recognition. Even her name is fiction, as she was not called

Molly in her lifetime. Margaret Tobin Brown defied social convention of her day to make waves long before she ever stepped foot on the Titanic! Hear this world traveler, the epitome of the reform era's "New Woman", talk about using her wealth and education to work for the social, political and labor reform critical to the early decades of the 20th century. Understand why this remarkable woman is truly unsinkable!

This is a 45 minute - 1 hour program presented in first person with time for questions and discussion.

"I am the daughter of adventure . . . I never experience a dull moment and must be prepared for any eventually. I never know when I may go up in an airplane and come down with a crash, or go motoring and climb a pole, or go off for a walk in the twilight and return all mussed up in an ambulance. That's my arc, as the astrologers would say. It's a good one, too, for a person who had rather make a snap-out than a fade-out of life."
Margaret "Molly" Brown

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