Frances Perkins dedicated her career to providing retirees with a financial safety net and exploited working people with safe, humane workplaces. Join her as she shares lessons learned and victories celebrated in creating Social Security and pushing through laws dealing with child-labor, workplace sanitation, and reasonable workweek hours. Learn about the tragedy that drove her to collaborate with Tammany Hall to develop a fire-safety code for New York that became a national model. As you stroll through the personal and professional trials and triumphs of this heroic, principled politician be prepared to hear her secrets to building alliances and staring down bullies to make government a champion for working people and retirees.

Janet Parnes of Historical Portrayals by Lady J (www.women-history.com) will portray Miss Perkins.

Free of charge. No registration required.

Questions? Call the Medway Public Library at 508-533-3217