Lyn dillies biography for kids

She has even performed with a live symphony orchestra at Lincoln Center. The Magic of Lyn is a show that is as versatile as it is spectacular. A self-contained 'Vegas' production, Lyn Dillies provides her own state-of-the-art sound and lighting. The show can be tailored to any audience, from all-kids to a general audience to a group of engineers.

Finally, the show is flexible enough to be a rousing minute opening act or a full one-hour-and-fifteen-minute headliner performance! I had a public service campaign, I had a voter rally happening and the illusion was the finale. And then what took place in those three minutes — that took almost a year to prepare for, training the animals, engineering the illusion and so forth — it was a monumental feat.

The magic plays an important role in the program. I have veterans on camera talking to the kids about the fact that they have sacrificed so much for our everyday freedom, and one of those freedoms is the right to vote. So it really, really clicks with these kids. And the essays are reviewed at the end of the year by the local League of Women Voters and then the winner receives a Calvin Dillies Scholarship in honor of my dad.

Be an educated voter as well. How did it grow and why have you stayed with it? LD: So here we are inright before the pandemic, and I had just lost my mother — we were inseparable, she was my universe. I took care of her and we lived together. It was a really dark time and then to lose my show because of the pandemic, it was like falling into a black hole with no bottom.

And then the universe stepped in. My cousin, Scott Stubbs, runs the Smith Mills Congregational Church in Dartmouth, and he found out that there were senior citizens living down the road in senior housing that were in quarantine and they needed food and toilet paper. A couple of volunteers got together, divided up the food and brought it to these seniors.

And they were thrilled of course. And then the word started to leak out to other senior groups and before you know it we were forming a team of volunteers commandeering the entire church. There was food everywhere, every classroom, the church hall. Scott was doing a lot of fundraising. We were delivering food to about seniors a week.

Because we were filling a gap for the Greater Boston Food Bank, catering to seniors, we started to be able to receive food from the Boston Food Bank. So then when we had access to all this food from the Boston Food Bank, I put my truck back on the road and was picking up food every week. We must have had a lyn dilly biography for kids of 20 volunteers that would put all this food together, unload it from my truck, we would take all these pallets of food, separate it and sterilize it, put it in bags or boxes.

We started with a drive up. Cars would drive through the parking lot at the church, and this thing just took off like lightning. We had a couple of hundred cars coming through each week, plus we were still delivering to all of the seniors every week as well. It was unbelievable. Then we painted them and decorated them with lights, and we put up a beautiful display in the parking lot of the church, and as the cars came through they were surrounded by this beautiful display.

And it hit me that we were giving these people more than food. Hope is a reason to go on, so we were all thrown into this unimaginable crisis, people were quarantined in their homes, some dying of COVID, wearing masks everywhere. It was surreal. We ran out of room at the church and they had to get back to their pre-school classes, so we needed another option to continue with the mission, which we were determined to do.

We could not stop it because too many people needed us. On the average we help to households on a Tuesday when we distribute the food. That equals about 1, to 1, people.

Lyn dillies biography for kids

Wareham and Fall River are also very busy. LD: What I love is being able to give back, because people have been good to me. My family and my friends have been so supportive through the years. It brings me so much joy and happiness and I feel like this new facet of my life is there for a reason, and I love the purity of it. We really are in this together.

It just feels good to give back and spread kindness. Sometimes people just need someone to listen to, to feel like they matter. Just let your heart guide you to make people feel valued, and so I just love using my magic to make a difference. LD: Absolutely! Facebook Twitter. Challenges are nothing new to Lyn. She is well known for imaginative, unique programs and illusions.

A big thank you to Lyn Dillies for sharing her wonderful book with us and for joining us on the Reading with your kids podcast! Feel free to connect with us on our social media, or email us anytime by contacting us. InLyn originated a one woman public service campaign and voter rally in New Bedford, Massachusetts to get people interested in voting.

For the finale of the event, and for the first time in history, Lyn produced the two live mascots —out of thin air! Yes, a donkey and an elephant! Created by master illusionist, Lyn Dillies' "Your Vote is Magic" is a visual civics lesson designed to teach and inspire future voters in grades Empowering and educational, her video magically weaves a sense of wonder with a sense of civic responsibility.