Registration is required to attend “Regretting Mr. Wright: Mamah Tells Her Own Story” and for all Coffee Talks moving forward. To register, please call 847-391-5399 or email contact@desplaineshistory.org. Any day-of availability will be on a first-come, first-served basis.

Mamah Bouton Borthwick (married name Cheney) and Frank Lloyd Wright fell in love. Flaunting all the social mores of their time and abandoning their family obligations, they ran off together to pursue their work, together and separately. However, Mamah was a modern woman living in a still very Victorian world. While Mr. Wright could depend on society to forgive a man’s indiscretions; especially if it also viewed him as genius, Mamah was expected to behave in a carefully prescribed manner. When she did not, she was outcast. She lived what was left of her short life as the female head of household at Taliesin where she was murdered on August 15, 1914. Mamah returns to our world at the moment of her death, as a ghost, to tell her own story.

This program is free thanks to our generous sponsors: Village Bank & Trust and Kiwanis Club of Des Plaines.