In her 89 years Evelyn Auger has served her state - she worked for Health and Human Services for many years; Served her family, raising five children and served her community with more than 40 years as a planning board member and a few terms as a Selectperson in her hometown of Sanbornton, New Hampshire. You might think that with all this she wouldn't have time for anything else but you'd be wrong. Evelyn has spent much of her life bringing historic women to life in words and dress.
It all began when she did a solo performance for her local historical society about Sanbornton native "Mother" Gilman" whose fictionalized correspondence with her son Moses, from the various battlefronts of the Civil War she created from historic records of his time and regiment. In that first performance, Evelyn read both letters from Mother Gilman to Moses and from Moses to her. When the Historical society asked her to come back for a repeat performance she recruited her grandson to play the role of Moses. With this first performance, dressed in everyday clothes, Evelyn was bitten by the acting bug; but something was still missing and it was right up her alley . . . period clothing. Evelyn loved both history and clothes so the wedding of historic fashion and historic figures was born.
Joining us for the visit and lending their voices to the discussion from time to time you will hear the voices of her daughter Carol Barbour, friend and neighbor Janice Leighton Boudreau, and William Hockensmith Janice's husband.
