The Oswego High School Drama Club, with support of the Oswego County Historical Society, proudly presents Independence: The True Story of Dr. Mary Walker, written and directed by Lloyd J. Schwartz and performed by Kathie Barnes.

This one-woman show brings to the forefront the life of Doctor Mary Edwards Walker, the only woman to have been awarded our country’s highest honor, The Congressional Medal of Honor.

One day Lloyd J. Schwartz read a one page article on Dr. Mary Walker, Civil War surgeon and the only woman to be awarded the Congressional Medal of Honor. Yet he had never heard of her. Normally adverse to one-person plays, Schwartz couldn’t shake the idea that Dr. Walker’s life was dramatic, intense, pertinent and could captivate an audience. The rest is history.

Independence had its world premiere fittingly in Seneca Falls, New York, the birthplace of the women’s movement, as part of the 100th Anniversary Celebration of women getting the right to vote in New York.