Blood on the Bread Board, A Mother’s Sorrow: Mary Ann Filby Wade LIVE

Blood on the Bread Board, A Mother’s Sorrow: Mary Anne Filby Wade LIVE
An Emotional Tempest in the Keeping Room Theater

Step into the dim glow of a wartime kitchen where bread once rose, a baby once cried, and a mother’s world shattered in a single rifle crack.
Blood on the Bread Board is an unflinching, heart‑rending journey through the eyes of Mary Anne Filby Wade, the steadfast, grieving, unbreakable mother of Mary Virginia “Jennie” Wade, the only civilian killed during the Battle of Gettysburg.

This is the Jennie Wade saga as you’ve never imagined it: raw, unguarded, and standing in the wreckage of July 1863.
In this intimate, hearthside performance, Mary Anne recounts the chaos that thundered to her doorstep:
A daughter, Georgia Anna, laboring to bring new life into the world as the armies closed in.
A newborn grandson placed in her arms just days before the war swallowed their street.
And the moment every mother fears — the sudden, brutal loss of her beloved Jennie, struck down while kneading dough for hungry Union soldiers.

You will witness the raw ache of a mother forced to bury her child hastily in the back garden, the scent of gunpowder still hanging in the July air. You will feel the weight of her courage as she shields her family, steadies her trembling hands, and faces a nation’s greatest tragedy with a quiet, devastating strength.

What follows is a storm of grief and grit:
A mother shielding a newborn while the house shakes with gunfire.
A family trapped between armies as the war claws at their doorstep.
And the unbearable moment Mary Anne must bury her beloved Jennie in the back garden, the earth still trembling from battle.

This is not a history lesson — it is a reckoning.
A visceral plunge into a mother’s anguish, courage, and unbreakable devotion.
A story soaked in gunpowder, tears, and the iron will of a woman who refused to collapse when the world demanded it.

This performance will surround you with the heartbeat of Gettysburg itself… close, immediate, and devastatingly human.
Prepare for goosebumps. Prepare for heartbreak. Prepare for truth.

Mary Anne Filby Wade is stepping out of the shadows, and she has a story you will never forget.