Meet Erma Bombeck
2025-03-29 14:00 - 15:00 (America/Denver) | Steeple Event Center, 701 Macon Ave., Cañon City, CO, 81212, United States
Meet Erma Bombeck, portrayed by Susan Marie Frontczak.
With paring-knife-sharp humor, Erma Bombeck captured the daily life of a new American phenomenon: the suburban housewife. Having figured out from her own personal experience that if you can laugh at it you can live with it, she chronicled the housewife’s daily struggles in her column “At Wit’s End” three days a week. She eventually appeared in 900 newspapers across the country and in books such as I Lost Everything in the Post-Natal Depression and The Grass is Always Greener Over the Septic Tank. Bombeck brought to American awareness the life of women whose lives otherwise felt invisible and taken for granted. She let women across America know: You are not alone. In fact, we number in the millions. I, too, am an American housewife, and I will laugh by your side. Find out how Erma got started as a humorist. And chuckle along as she pokes fun at kids, husbands, and especially herself.
Susan Marie Frontczak has given over 850 presentations as Marie Curie, Mary Shelley, Irene Castle, Clara Barton, Eleanor Roosevelt, and Erma Bombeck across 43 of the United States, and abroad in her 22 years as a Living History scholar. She also works with both adults and youth to develop their own Chautauqua presentations. Susan Marie authored the Young Chautauqua coaching handbooks for Colorado Humanities and coaches students 3rd through 12 grades. In 2022 she joined the faculty of the new Chautauqua Training Institute run through North Dakota Humanities that is coaching a dozen new Chautauqua scholars from across the country.

High Tea With The Legendary Ladies
2025-03-29 14:00 - 16:00 | Cornerstone Community Church, Celebration Center, 1321 9th Avenue, Greeley, 80631
You are cordially invited to high tea with Legendary Ladies Georgia O’keefe, Hedy LaMarr & Merle Eagan Anderson at Cornerstone Community Church in Greeley.
Music is provided by Ursa String Duet.
Register here.
