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National Archives Comes Alive! Young Learners Program: Meet Julia Child
  • Date: Thursday, March 09, 2023
  • Time: 11:00 am
  • Location: Online

Julia Child became a household name after collaborating on the bestselling book Mastering the Art of French Cooking, which she followed up with more books and a long-running TV series. Before achieving fame as a culinary wonder, Julia Child played an important role in communications with the OSS, a U.S. Government intelligence agency. Ms. Child will share stories of her youth, her love of cooking, and her role as a traveling the world as a top-secret communicator during World War II. Actor and storyteller Linda Kenyon portrays Julia Child.

Women’s History Month programming is made possible in part by the National Archives Foundation through the generous support of Denise Gwyn Ferguson.