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The film unfolds over a 27-year period in a small, Maine town during the turbulent decades following the American Revolution. It is based on the diary of midwife Martha Ballard, who started it when she was fifty years old and faithfully kept it for the next 27 years.
*The public viewing copy has an on-screen index which makes it easy to find specific scenes in the film, and it comes with a teacher's guide which explores the topics of money and currency, textiles and female work, midwifery, and courtship, marriage and sexuality.
A Midwife's Tale. Directed by Richard P. Rogers. Written and Produced by Laurie Kahn-Leavitt. (C) 1997 A Midwife's Tale Project and The Filmmakers Collaborative. A Production of Blueberry Hill Productions. QuickTime plug-in 3.0 or later is required to view this clip. Download it here.
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The church, with the tacit approval of Eleanor's husband, William, is cracking down on folk festivities and on the curative work of an aging midwife. Eleanor, with a new-found friend and servant woman, Gwenyth, who is the midwife's understudy, tries to save the woman from execution.
A Midwife's Tale (adapted from the Pulitzer Prize winning book) unfolds like a detective story -- the true tale of two women, two hundred years apart, linked by the diary one of them left behind. In the film, we follow author Laurel Ulrich as she deciphers the massive but cryptic diary of 18th century midwife Martha Ballard.
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A docudrama adaptation of Ulrich's Pulitzer-winning book, which was based on thousands of entries in the journal of Martha Ballard, a Maine midwife, in the late 1700's and early 1800's.
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