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Author Lisa Saunders of Mystic presents the Civil War love letters featured in the book, Ever True: A Union Private and His Wife, published by Heritage Books. Photo by Collette Fournier.
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Free
and open to the public
Author
Lisa Saunders will present Civil War love letters from her book, Ever True: A Union Private and His Wife
published by Heritage Books, to the Waterford Women's Club. The public is
invited to attend.
Presentation: “Ever True: A Union Private and His Wife”
Waterford Library, lower level
Admission: Free and open to the public
The Waterford Women's Club is hosting Lisa Saunders of
Mystic, author of Ever True: A Union Private and His Wife,
which features the love letters between Lisa’s great-great grandparents,
Charles and Nancy McDowell. Charles
married Nancy when she was 15 years old on Christmas Eve in 1860. Enlisting as a private in the New York
9th Heavy Artillery two years later, he asked Nancy to save his
letters. Despite his grueling battles and marches, he was able to save hers as
well. Together, their letters tell of bullets, hangings, prostitutes, venereal
disease, “clever women,”
and the court marshalling of a cow. Ever
True is also a "readers theater." (Charles fought in several battles with the 2nd
Connecticut Heavy Artillery in the Sixth Corps.)
Lisa
Saunders of Mystic is an award-winning writer, TV host, and part-time history
interpreter at Mystic Seaport. A graduate of Cornell University, she is the author of several
books, including the humorous and historical travel memoir, Mystic
Seafarer's Trail.
The Civil War love letters of Private Charles McDowell and his wife Nancy featured in the book, Ever True: A Union Private and His Wife, published by Heritage Books.
Photo by Larry Chester.
Lisa will be joined in the reading of the letters by Captain Marcus John Fisk and Pamela Collins Fisk of New London, Connecticut.
Captain Marcus John Fisk has
appeared in over 30 stage productions in Virginia, Maryland, Colorado and California.
Most recently, Fisk was in A Christmas Carol (Scrooge), Gross Indecency: The
Three Trials of Oscar Wilde, 1776, Broadway Bound, and Who’s
Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (George), in the Washington DC area.
He authored the book to the Vietnam POW musical, Four Part Harmony,
slated for a 2015 NYC production and was the Technical Advisor to the Discovery
Channel production, Vietnam POWs: Stories of Survival, which received
the 1998 Emmy Award for Best Documentary. He has just completed the screenplay,
The Sea Devil, on the life of Count Felix von Luckner, a swashbuckling,
chivalric German Officer who raided allied shipping in WWI. A retired Navy
Captain and graduate of the Naval Academy, Fisk is a consultant with the
Department of the Navy on Special Operations and Irregular Warfare.
Pamela Collins Fisk worked many years
as a staffer for Congressman Joe Kennedy and then went on to own and operate a
Bed & Breakfast on Nantasket Beach in the Boston area. She has modeled for various designers doing
both runway and print, and was a Historic Interpreter for George Washington’s
home at Mount Vernon in Virginia. She is
planning on opening another B&B at her new Victorian home in New London
this spring, and is currently finishing her book, The Innkeepers Diary, to be published this summer. Pamela and
her husband, Captain Marcus John Fisk, have two sons and a daughter and
are expecting their first granddaughter in April. The couple now lives in
New London, Connecticut. They can be reached at pcollins0404.pf@gmail.com.
See event flyer at: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1WhYlLsRaWuEHvUkuu-2kvwtz6xC9iyBYa0f-BRGJI0Q/edit?usp=sharing
For more information about the event, contact Gay Clarkson, Co-President, Waterford Woman’s Club, at gaywil@cox.net, or Waterford Public Library at 49 Rope Ferry Road Waterford, Connecticut 06385, Tel. 860-444-5805.
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