In Service: Life Downstairs In this program, I wear an authentic parlor maid's costume and talk about what it was like to live and work downstairs in a late-Victorian house. I explain the complicated hierarchy between upper and lower servants, everyone's duties, the loneliness of a half-day off, and give a lively account of high jinks downstairs that accompanied the long hours of drudgery.

From the Streets of Shakespeare to the Court of Elizabeth In this two-costume program, I present a look into the lives of the working class and the nobility during the time of Shakespeare. I discuss what these people ate, wore, and what it like to go to the doctor.

From the Streets of Rome to the Provinces of an Empire In this program, I appear in the authentic clothing of a Roman matron and give a short social history of what it was like to be alive in Imperial Rome.

Learning Among the Oak Groves -- A Look at Celtic Life In this program, I appear in authentic Celtic costume and talk about what it was like to live in ancient Britain at the time of the Roman invasion. I explain the hierarchy of the Celtic tribe and the binding factors between the tribes -- the Druids and Bards.

The Myth Makers of Civilization (Ancient Greece) In this interdisciplinary program, I appear in authentic classical Greek costume and combine art, theater, and dance with history.

Women of the Ancient World The first part of this three-part program is called Drapery as an Art Form -- Women as Property and deals with the freedom of women in ancient Crete vs. the virtual imprisonment of women in Classical Greece. The second part of this program, The Matron of Society, talks about women of position in Ancient Rome. The third part of this program, Women of Power, gives insight into a completely different culture of the ancient world -- the Celts. The Celts were one of the few cultures to give women real power in all aspects of life -- government, religion, and war. Women could rule, fight, or speak with the gods.