Department of History

Adapated from teh Pulitzer Prize-winning book by Laurel Ulrich, A Midwife's Tale unfolds like a detective story-the true tale of two women, 200 years apart, linked by the massive yet cryptic diary one of them left behind. The world of frontier midwife Martha Ballard (played by Kaiulani Lee) gradually takes shape as author and historian Laurel Ulrich pieces it together. A Midwife's Tale unfolds in a small Maine town during the turbulent decades following the American Recolution--a time when social change and religious conflit are rife, and survival is a full-time job. A Midwife's Tale is the result of an unusual collaboration between Laurel Ulrich and a team led by producer/writer Laurie Kahn-Leavitt and director Richard Rogers.