Mary Edwards Walker and the Wax Museum,

Thursday evening, we got a rare treat. Hannah's elementary school's Fifth Grade holds a Wax Museum of Historical Figures and allows the students to pick one, research the person and then pose as him/her. Hannah chose Mary Edwards Walker. Who? Mary Edwards Walker was the

• first female doctor in the Civil War.
• She was the first female surgeon also.
• She earned the Congressional Medal of Honor (the only woman to ever receive this award--the top military medal for service to one's country).
• She was the second woman to graduate from medical school in the US.
• She was raised by a "free thinking" father who believed that woman's clothing (of the time) was unhealthy and advocated shirts and pants for his five daughters--quite a scandal!