In 1922, an exciting new opportunity came to the women of Ottawa, Illinois. The Radium Dial Company opened a factory and began hiring well-paid female employees by the dozen. Their job was to paint ...

Jean Anne Gregorzek owns a small clock that glows with luminescent paint. It doesn’t tick, but she keeps it on her dresser anyway, to remember the grandmother she never met. Quinta Maggia McDonald ...

Three Crows Theatre has made a name for itself performing plays based on true stories, and this one hits close to home. Melanie Marnich’s one-act, directed by Kristin Davis, details the radioactive ...

The young women sat in rows, heads bent, painting numbers on paper watch and clock faces with luminous paint. The numbers on the wristwatches and clock dials were so tiny, the workers needed a very ...

WATERBURY They are scrubbing down Apartment 507. Men and women in white lab coats, protected by plastic masks, are vacuuming radioactive dust from the wooden floorboards and scraping radium off the ...

The harrowing true story of women working for a Radium Dial Company in the early 1900s is brought center stage in the Sheldon Vexler Theatre's production of THESE SHINING LIVES. Written by Melanie ...

Amarillo Little Theatre (ALT) is presenting "These Shining Lives," a story by Melanie Marnich, based on the true story of the spirited women who worked at the Radium Dial Company. "These Shining Lives ...

Who wouldn’t want to be known as a “shining woman”? Certainly the young women (and girls — some only 14 or 15 years old) who worked for the radium dial factories were fascinated and delighted by the ...

UCO's Department of Theatre Arts presents an online streaming production of DW Gregory's Radium Girls. The true story of the Radium Girls is a stranger-than-fiction, shocking scenario that really ...

YAKIMA, Wash. -- To the untrained eye, scientific progress often resembles magic. In a world of machines that can traverse the globe, computers we can hold in our hands and spaceships capable of ...