Well this was our second Women’s History Month in a pandemic but at least Mollie’s War was prepared for it.\u00a0\u00a0 March 2020 the world shut down due to the coronavirus (COVID-19).\u00a0\u00a0 We did one in-person presentation in Savanna, Illinois on International Women’s Day (March 8, 2020).\u00a0\u00a0 It was a wonderful time and such a beautiful setting.\u00a0 Little did we know the changes on the horizon.\u00a0 After March 12, all of our presentations were canceled\/postponed.\u00a0 We didn’t have another presentation until April 2020 when organizations started using Zoom to deliver content to audiences.\u00a0 We have continued to use Zoom since then.\u00a0\u00a0 One positive note is the fact that people can join from all over the country!\u00a0 But the biggest negative is not having the audience reactions and interactions–and not getting to meet people in person.\u00a0 When it is safe to do so, we are hoping to\u00a0travel the state to meet some of the people that we have seen on Zoom.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0It is difficult to assess reactions when everyone is muted and in little video boxes–and sometimes when a webinar is being used, you don’t even see the video boxes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
We met many interesting people during March 2021. We spoke in DeKalb at Elwood House, Lansing Library on International Women’s Day, Champaign Genealogy Society, Sycamore Library and Arlington Heights Library. It was so nice meeting people who were genuinely interested in history and were delighted that my mother and her family saved all of her “stuff.” If they had not saved this information, there would not have been an accurate story. I’ve enjoyed discovering this new audience of people interested in what the women did in WWII, a story that is not told often.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
One of my favorite times from this month was when our grandchildren stayed over during spring break and I had a presentation.\u00a0 Our seven year old granddaughter, Hava,\u00a0wanted to see my practice session.\u00a0\u00a0 So she joined me–she told me that I had a lot of information.\u00a0\u00a0 As I was talking and showing the slides, she asked many questions.\u00a0 What usual takes 45 minutes took almost an hour and a half.\u00a0\u00a0 She was very interested.\u00a0\u00a0 One of her questions occurred when I was showing the slide of children being evacuated from London to safer places during the buzz bombing.\u00a0\u00a0 She wanted\u00a0 to know if the children ever saw their parents again—what a question but so appropriate for a child of the 2020s.\u00a0\u00a0 <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Well this was our second Women’s History Month in a pandemic but at least Mollie’s War was prepared for it.\u00a0\u00a0 …<\/p>\n