Film Premiere Will Honor Anna Ella Carroll Nov. 20
CAMBRIDGE, Md. — The Maryland Women’s Heritage Center and Friends of Anna Ella Carroll will host the world premiere film screening of “The Lost River,” about the Maryland’s Anna Ella Carroll on Saturday, Nov. 20, at the Hyatt Regency Chesapeake Bay at 7 p.m. “Anna Ella Carroll Recognition Day” will celebrate the woman who was President Abraham Lincoln’s military strategist and adviser. She is credited with helping to prevent Maryland’s secession. Her involvement in the war was kept a secret for fear that Union generals and soldiers would not follow a plan devised by a woman civilian. A pre-reception at 5 p.m. will feature the film’s producer and writer, Bruce Bridegroom; Brig. Gen. Wilma L. Vaught, president of Military Women in Service who is working to build a memorial to women in military service at Arlington National Cemetery; and Eastern Shore artist Laura Era. Fritz Klein, who played Abraham Lincoln, and Tami Sutton, the actress who played Carroll, will arrive in horse-drawn carriages. Carroll was largely ignored after the war until, in 1870, she appealed to Congress for recognition and compensation, which she was granted in 1881. To many, she is a symbol of women’s contributions and the inequities in their recognition and compensation. Some historians believe the 1864 Francis Carpenter painting “First Reading of the Emancipation Proclamation of President Lincoln,” which depicts Lincoln and his cabinet with an empty chair filled with notes and maps similar to the ones Carroll often carried, was Carpenter’s way of acknowledging Carroll, the unrecognized member of the cabinet. Artist Laura Era is creating the painting with Anna Ella Carroll seated in the chair. Her “Maryland’s Version of Signing The Emancipation Proclamation” will be shown at the premiere and throughout Maryland. Premiere tickets at $12.50 in advance, $15 at the door and $35 including the pre-reception are available at www.mdwomensheritagecenter.org/ or by calling (410) 943-1694 or (410) 767-0675. Information is available at www.friendsofannaellacarroll.org.
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