With: Ellen Chase

Class Fee: $50

Class Size: 6 / teens to adults

Come join a one-time journey into imagination and creative writing in which we bring to life people from the 19th century that we only know from their photographs. Choose from a collection of pictures (or bring your own) of long-forgotten men and women, give them a name and brief life story. Based on the bio you have imagined for them and what you see in their faces, give them a voice – what they would tell another person on the train, for instance, about their interests, successes, disappointments, etc.

Ellen Chase has enrolled in and taught classes in poetry and writing at Keene State College in their Cheshire Academy for Lifelong Learning. She has also written many stories and memoirs because they were such a challenge and pleasure to write.