Mary Anning: Fossil Hunter, a Chamber Orchestra (World Premiere) - June 9 at 3 PM

It is an unlikely story, actually more than one.

Mary Anning: Fossil Hunter

Franklin Massachusetts, famed as the home of the first free public lending library in America and the birthplace of reformer and "father of the public school movement," Horace Mann, these days is also home to Chicago native, Dr. Jon Ceander Mitchell, a retired music professor and orchestral conductor.

But Mitchell also has another side, an abiding interest in dinosaurs and paleontology, an interest which led him to learn the story of a self-educated 19th century Englishwoman who became one of the world's first paleontologists.  Across the years, enthusiasm for this pioneer, Mary Anning by name, gave Mitchell the idea of celebrating her life through the medium of opera.

And so it is that June 9, 2024 will see the World Premiere of his work, Mary Anning: Fossil Hunter, a Chamber Orchestra, at the intimate venue of the Franklin First Universalist Society.

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