Dianne Moran is an award-winning storyteller, living history performer, and Chautauqua scholar. Heritage Festivals feature her poignant portrayals, including Zerelda James (Frank and Jesse’s mama), Miep Gies (Anne Frank Family protector), and condemned conspirator in the Lincoln assassination, Mary Surratt. Other recognizable personages include Calamity Jane, Mother Jones, Lizzie Borden, Anne Morrow Lindbergh, and Titanic and 1904 World’s Fair characters. Schools augment their curriculums with her programs of Colonial America, Revolutionary War, Lewis & Clark, Civil War, Wagon Train, Ellis Island, and The Holocaust. This is a live performance in historic dress as Violet Jessup, Titanic survivor and first deck passenger maid, including a relic display. To read more from local newspapers from 1912, click the links below. 
Theater will be set up for casual dining, and food and beverages will be available. Please call to reserve your free table.

La Estancia will be cooking for this event. Food will be served inside the museum, priced $10-$12 a plate. 

Thanks to our sponsors:

Claudine Pinkley and the

Missouri Arts Council