Speaking Topics

SKILLS/SERVICES
Public Speaker/Lecturer
Journaling/Writing Workshops

Writing your memoirs/stories
People of all ages have stories to share.   Let me help you capture your stories.

AUDIENCES

• Schools
• Museum Events
  
• Churches
• Book Clubs
• Assisted Living Facilities and Retirement Homes
  
• Libraries
• Corporations
• Newcomers' Groups
• Garden Clubs 
• History Groups
  

GENERAL TOPICS

• History
• Literature
• History of gemstones
• The language of flowers

• How to Write: poetry, journaling, novel writing; short story writiting; personal remininscences
• Create Your own Memory book ---colaborating/scrapbooking
• Commonplace Book---Create your own

SPECIFIC TOPICS

• Churchill: His Life & Paintings
• Churchill & Clemmie---A Love Story
• Gwen Bristow---South Carolina's Own Revolutionary War Novelist
•  Edna St. Vincent Millay "My Candle Burns at Both Ends"
• Elizabeth Allston Pringle--- Woman Rice Planter
• Eliza Lucas Pinckney---Her Letterbook
• War Bird: Elliot White Springs, WWI Flying Ace
• Eugene Walter: The Last Bohemian
• Upcountry SC Revolutionary War Women----Their Stories
• SC Women in the War between the States
• Lady Gardeners of the Colonial South
• Frederic Chopin & George Sand----A Love Story in Music & Words
• William Gilmore Simms: A Life in Letters & Stories
• Great Upcountry Statesmen: Benjamin F. Perry, JR Poinsett, WG Simms
• Ben Robertson: Red Hills & Cotton
• The Wonderful Stories of Words: The Life behind them (and phrases)
• Neglected Upcountry African Americans

DARK CORNER TOPICS & VIDEOS

• Scots Irish
• Our Upcountry Heritage:  Preserve It or Lose It (video)
• The History, Mystery, Magic of the Dark Corner

• Moonshine
• Swamp Rabbit Railroad
• History of Old Greenville: The Stories of CA David
• Cherokee Legends, Myths, Stories; & Herbal Healing
• Joel R. Poinsett:  History of the Poinsett Bridge & Old State Road
• SC Women Writers from the 18th to the 20th Century.  film created for SCETV
• Dark Corner Films & videos (Merrittsville: Lost Villge of the Dark Corner" (video)
• "The Old State Road, Narrated by Mann Batson"---(video)
• Primitive Weaponry & Technology of Native Americans (video)

HOLIDAY  TALKS

• Christmas Traditions, Customs & Legends in South Carolina
• History of Epiphany
• Independence Day---old fashioned customs
• Valentine's Day Customs