Fifty years after jailing activist grandma shares story April 10th in Poughkeepsie:
public invited
for immediate release: March 2, 2015
dateline: Poughkeepsie, New York
Activist poet, Molly Lynn Watt, jailed in Maryville, Tennessee in 1963 along with her baby daughters and thirty other civil rights volunteers, shares her witness poetry and reflections in a presentation open to the public at The Oakwood Friends School. Reading excerpts from her recent book of poems, “On the Wings of Song— A Journey into the Civil Rights Era”, (Ibbetson Street Press 2014) interspersed with singing songs of the Civil Rights Movement, Watt brings the sixties movement alive. A movement dealing with issues of race America continues to address today.
Watt is the 2nd Jonathan Talbot Art Series Presenter at The Oakwood Friends School. The public is invited to join the all school meeting at 11 am on April 10, 2015, at 22 Spackenkill Road, Poughkeepsie, New York. For more information, please contact Elaine Miles at (845) 462-4200.
Oakwood is a special place for Watt as she was among the graduates in 1956. Watt says, “I’m thrilled to return to Oakwood, I credit my time there for making me impatient with racial injustice and disparities in America, for waking up my activist self. I, a white girl from Connecticut, roomed with a black girl from Tennessee, we went to sleep telling stories about discrimination. I sung my first civil rights songs at Oakwood with Pete Seeger. And now I share the Oakwood experience with my youngest grandchild who is a sophomore.” Watt’s presentation is a journey of conscience, shared at the school where she learned to listen to and heed her own.
Watt is a writer and retired educator living in Cambridge Co-Housing, a community dedicated to cooperative living by consensus and reduced carbon footprint in a diverse urban community. She and her husband, Dan Lynn Watt, were among the founders. They teach at The Harvard Institute for Learning in Retirement and facilitate, play and sing in the Common Strummers Ukulele Band.
public invited
for immediate release: March 2, 2015
dateline: Poughkeepsie, New York
Activist poet, Molly Lynn Watt, jailed in Maryville, Tennessee in 1963 along with her baby daughters and thirty other civil rights volunteers, shares her witness poetry and reflections in a presentation open to the public at The Oakwood Friends School. Reading excerpts from her recent book of poems, “On the Wings of Song— A Journey into the Civil Rights Era”, (Ibbetson Street Press 2014) interspersed with singing songs of the Civil Rights Movement, Watt brings the sixties movement alive. A movement dealing with issues of race America continues to address today.
Watt is the 2nd Jonathan Talbot Art Series Presenter at The Oakwood Friends School. The public is invited to join the all school meeting at 11 am on April 10, 2015, at 22 Spackenkill Road, Poughkeepsie, New York. For more information, please contact Elaine Miles at (845) 462-4200.
Oakwood is a special place for Watt as she was among the graduates in 1956. Watt says, “I’m thrilled to return to Oakwood, I credit my time there for making me impatient with racial injustice and disparities in America, for waking up my activist self. I, a white girl from Connecticut, roomed with a black girl from Tennessee, we went to sleep telling stories about discrimination. I sung my first civil rights songs at Oakwood with Pete Seeger. And now I share the Oakwood experience with my youngest grandchild who is a sophomore.” Watt’s presentation is a journey of conscience, shared at the school where she learned to listen to and heed her own.
Watt is a writer and retired educator living in Cambridge Co-Housing, a community dedicated to cooperative living by consensus and reduced carbon footprint in a diverse urban community. She and her husband, Dan Lynn Watt, were among the founders. They teach at The Harvard Institute for Learning in Retirement and facilitate, play and sing in the Common Strummers Ukulele Band.
