Press release

This release was written to promote a nine-month-long museum exhibition and related special events. The exhibition's run was highly successful, and the workshops and events that I hosted were so well attended that additional appearances were added.



Women at Work Museum features work by Lori Hein, author of Ribbons of Highway: A Mother-Child Journey Across America


- ATTLEBORO, MA, December 23, 2006 - "Defining Decades," an exhibit which runs through September 2007 at the Women at Work Museum in Attleboro, Massachusetts, includes a dozen-plus displays that examine how decades and eras are defined by the actions of individuals, organizations and nations.

In the Women in Transport display, author Lori Hein takes museum visitors across America and around the world through words and pictures.

Hein, author of Ribbons of Highway: A Mother-Child Journey Across America, shares her published travel writing and photography through a colorful display that includes slide shows of images from around the world.

During the exhibition"s run, Hein will also present several special events and workshops at the museum. In "An Evening of American Travel," Hein reads from Ribbons of Highway: A Mother-Child Journey Across America and shares slides from the 12,000-mile, post-9/11 road trip the author took with her two children.

Hein will also present "On Writing and Getting Published," a workshop for aspiring writers.

For information, contact the Women at Work Museum at 508-222-4430.