Actress to portray Victoria Woodhull

College Club of Tuscarawas County and Dover Public Library will present a program with actress Anne McEvoy who will portray Victoria Woodhull on Thursday, Oct. 31 at 6:30 p.m. in the community room at the library.

Woodhull was the first woman to run for president and the first female stock broker on Wall Street. According to the National Women’s History Museum, Woodhull achieved remarkable success in finance, journalism and politics. A spiritualist, suffragist and free love advocate, Woodhull was an iconoclast who fought for her beliefs no matter how controversial they were at the time.

McEvoy has been a member of Women In History since 1998. She has found this nonprofit corporation has provided her with the opportunity to combine her lifelong love of performing with her newfound love of history. The organization is dedicated to the education of all people through the dramatic re-creation of lives of notable women in history whose voices tell some of the most stirring and inspiring stories in the history of the country.

McEvoy is a full-time writer/editor for the Creative Division of American Greetings Inc. Her background is in theater and she has been active in professional and community theater in the Cleveland area. The Dover Public Library is located at 525 N. Walnut St., Dover. Register online at www.doverlibrary.org/events or call the library at 330-343-6123.