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Elizabeth Packard: The Woman who would not be Silenced

6:00pm–7:00pm
Carnegie North
Library Branch: Lincoln Library
Room: Carnegie North
Program Type: Performance
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Elizabeth Parsons Ware Packard was committed to the Illinois State Hospital (the state mental asylum) in 1860, and was kept under lock and key for three years, all the while protesting her sanity.