![]() ![]() “It’s just making her come alive and making people view her through different eyes,” says Newman.īorn on Novemin Kentucky, Nation’s first marriage to the alcoholic Charles Gloyd left her a widow with a mother-in-law and disabled daughter to care for. As part of her work with the museum, Newman conducts tours and participates in the annual summer Medicine Lodge Indian Peace Treaty parade, all in character. including her autobiography, The Use and Need of the Life of Carry A. There is a long tradition of Carry Nation interpreters at the museum-dating back to its inception in 1961. Carry Nation was a temperance reformer, author, and lecturer in Kansas. Nation House on the National Register the second is her childhood home in Lancaster, Kentucky. ![]() It is one of two homes listed as the Carry A. ![]() Built in 1882, the one-story, gable-roofed brick house was added to the National Register of Historic Places on May 11, 1976. ![]() Since 1999, Newman has been the official costumed Carry Nation interpreter for the Medicine Lodge Stockade Museum, which includes Nation’s 1890 home. But when I found that out, it was like Pandora opening the box.” “Well, she didn’t get smoking stopped-he smoked all his life. “My great-grandfather in Carry Nation’s Sunday school class and when he told me that story, I was absolutely flabbergasted,” says Kim Newman. ![]()
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