Capitol Neighbors Event – Meet Elsie
September 17, 2017
1:00 PM
at the Benicia Capitol State Historic Park
Entrance fee: $10 Adults, $5 Kids
Former Benician, artist and nationally-read newspaper columnist, Elsie Robinson, commanded a following of 20 million daily readers in the late 1930s. Come find out more about the woman one fellow journalist called “the most interesting woman in the world” and what drove her fans to write her more than 2,000 fan letters a day.
Performance by Sheena Beeson as Elsie and Peter Bray as Elsie’s husband Benton Fremont.
See the Benicia Herald write-up here
Sponsored by –
The City of Benicia, California,
The Benicia State Parks Association, and
California State Parks
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