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ATTEND AN EVENT Upcoming Events Civil War Spy Rose Greenhow Will Visit Nov. 20 Lecture CCHS’ fall lecture will feature Ann Blackman, journalist and author of “Wild Rose,” the definitive biography of Civil War spy Rose Greenhow, and historical impersonator Emily Lapisardi, appearing as Rose Greenhow in authentic 19th-century costume. A beautiful widow who climbed to the top of Washington society, Wild Rose Greenhow used her social connections to spy for the Confederacy. Ms. Blackman will describe the political and social milieu in antebellum Washington and trace the exploits of this independent woman of remarkable courage and dedication who, like many of her fellow Southerners, gave her last measure of devotion for a lost cause. Ms. Blackman has been a journalist in Washington for over three decades. She worked at TIME magazine for 16 years as deputy bureau chief of the Washington bureau and spent three years as a correspondent in the TIME Moscow bureau. Earlier, she was a national correspondent for The Associated Press, covering the Watergate hearings, presidential politics, the Iranian hostage crisis and the assassination attempts on Governor George Wallace and President Ronald Reagan. She left journalism in 2001 to concentrate on writing books. In addition to “Wild Rose”, she is the author of Seasons of Her Life: A Biography of Madeleine Korbel Albright published by Scribner/Simon & Schuster in 1998 and co-author of The Spy Next Door: the Extraordinary Secret Life of Robert Philip Hanssen, published by Little, Brown and Co. in 2002. Ms. Lapisardi has presented historical impersonations at museums, historical societies, schools, festival and reenactments throughout the nation. Her repertoire of historical subjects includes another Civil War spy, Antonia Form Willard, wife of one of the founders of Washington’s Willard Hotel. The public is invited to the program on Sunday, November 20, at 4:00 pm at the Chevy Chase Village Hall, 5906 Connecticut Avenue.
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