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Spilling the Tea with Allison Horrocks’Dolls of Our Lives: Why We Can’t Quit American Girl’
March 29 @ 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm
Spilling the Tea with Allison Horrocks
‘Dolls of Our Lives: Why We Can’t Quit American Girl’
March 29 • 2 p.m. • Jamestown Settlement
The nostalgia and power of the American Girl® empire is the focus of a Talking History Program, “Spilling the Tea with Allison Horrocks,” at Jamestown Settlement on Saturday, March 29.
Horrocks, co-host of the “Dolls of Our Lives” podcast and co-author of “Dolls of Our Lives: Why We Can’t Quit American Girl,” and Sally Meyer, Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation director of Learning and Community Engagement, will discuss the work of American Girl® creator Pleasant Rowland and how the combination of girl power and history shaped an entire generation.
With a trip to Williamsburg, Va., Pleasant Rowland created a brand that sparked a love of history in young people across the country. Dolls, such as Felicity Merriman, who lived in 1700s colonial Virginia, and Kaya, a Nez Perce girl in 1764, are among the characters featured in popular series of historical novels and films with limitless accessories.
Allison Horrocks, public historian and co-author of “Dolls of Our Lives: Why We Can’t Quit American Girl” (2023), completed her doctorate at the University of Connecticut and currently works as a park ranger at Blackstone River Valley National Historical Park in Pawtucket, Rhode Island. Horrocks, a former interpreter and tour guide at historic sites, has been the co-host of the “Dolls of Our Lives” podcast for the past five years exploring all things American Girl®, history and pop culture.
Reserve Your Seat
The program will begin at 2 p.m. in the Jamestown Settlement Education Wing and will feature a light reception and book signing with Allison Horrocks. Tickets are $15 per person with advance registration at jyfmuseums.org/lectures.
The program is supported in part by the Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation, Inc. Annual Fund.
About Jamestown Settlement
Jamestown Settlement, a museum of 17th-century Virginia history and culture, is administered by the Jamestown-Yorktown Foundation, an educational agency of the Commonwealth of Virginia accredited by the American Alliance of Museums and a commemorative partner of the Virginia American Revolution 250 Commission.
Jamestown Settlement, open daily 9 a.m. to 5 p.m., is located at 2110 Jamestown Road near Williamsburg, Va., near the Colonial Parkway. For more information, call (757) 253-4838 or visit jyfmuseums.org. Follow our museums on social media @jyfmuseums.
