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January 16, 2010 Cook County News Herald archives
BRINGING HISTORY TO LIFE
Playing the role of Mary Surratt, high school student Carly Puch calmly knits as she answers charges that she was involved with the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln. Mary Surratt was the first woman executed by the United States Government. She insisted that she was innocent to the moment of her death.
Carly Puch and fourteen other students portrayed historical figures, notorious and notable, as part of Ms. Ivy Church’s UMD College Writing program offered at Cook County High School.
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