Phyllis Vecchia recently completed another year of teaching about important women in history through theater. Each year, Ms. Vecchia goes into the schools and has students not just learn about history but become it.

At the Tisbury School, the eighth grade studied Ida B. Wells-Barnett, (social activist and suffragist ), Katherine Johnson, (mathematician featured in the film Hidden Figures) and the Greensboro Sit In.

The sixth grade learned about Ida B. Wells-Barnett, Harriet Beecher Stowe, (author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin) and Katherine Johnson.

And third graders at the Chilmark School studied and performed Abigail Adams and Elizabeth Freeman (first African American to file a lawsuit for her freedom and win in Massachusetts in 1781).

The program is paid for by the town of Tisbury, the PTO of Chilmark and private funders and donors.

For more information, contact Phyllis Vecchia, pvcreativedrama@yahoo.com.