Festival Performers and Contributors
Ian Ruskin
Creator of the one-man play, To Begin the World Over Again
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Sarah Jane Marsh
Seattle-based author of an award-winning book for young people, Thomas Paine and the Dangerous Word
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Joy Masoff
Creator of exhibits in the Thomas Paine Memorial Building, and student of the Bonneville family
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Zenos Frudakis
Creator of a memorial statue of Paine to be erected in Washington, D.C., per legislation pending in Congress
Additional information available at the Thomas Paine Memorial Association
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Margaret DowneyMargaret is the President of the Thomas Paine Memorial Association. She will be portraying Madame Marguerite Brazier Bonneville throughout the weekend including being the Emcee at the Friday night Dinner Theater.
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“A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong, gives it a superficial appearance of being right, and raises at first a formidable outcry in defense of custom. But the tumult soon subsides.
Time makes more converts than reason.”
- Thomas Paine, Common Sense
Time makes more converts than reason.”
- Thomas Paine, Common Sense