Why the Founding Mothers Matter - Concord Museum presents Cokie Roberts on Tuesday, May 20

Concord Museum presents NY Times best-selling author and popular ABC & NPR correspondent Cokie Roberts on Tuesday, May 20, 2014 in a speech entitled:  Why the Founding Mothers Matter

The Concord Museum is honored to announce that NY Times best-selling author and popular ABC & NPR correspondent, Cokie Roberts, will talk about the often overlooked role of women in the days of the American Revolution.  This is one of a full calendar of programs and events for the special exhibition The Shot Heard Round the World: April 19, 1775 on view at the Concord Museum through September 21, 2014.  Roberts, author of Founding Mothers: The Women Who Raised Our Nation and Founding Mothers: Remembering the Ladies, will speak at the Fenn School (516 Monument Street, Concord) on Thursday, May 20 at 7:00 p.m.

In Founding Mothers: Remembering the Ladies, Cokie Roberts offers America’s children a much-needed and long overdue look at the wives, mothers, sisters, and daughters who helped forge our great nation.  In a lively, gorgeous, whimsically illustrated children’s book based on her bestselling adult book, she introduces young readers to the brave, brilliant, and enterprising women whose influence on the founding of our country was as instrumental as that of the men whose names are prominent in history.

 This event is FREE, but pre-registration is required by visiting concordmuseum.org or by calling (978) 369-9763, ext. 216.  Parking can be limited at the Fenn School so carpooling is encouraged.

The Shot Heard Round the World: April 19, 1775 is open through September 21, 2014 and features over fifty objects that were eyewitnesses to that fateful day in American history gathered from public and private collections.