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To Schedule an Event
Lisa Saunders is available to speak on the following topics (bio included in write-ups):
Ride a Horse Talk and Saunders Bio.doc
Congenital CMV: Elizabeth Saunders: Forever Sweet Sixteen
Civil War: EVER TRUE and Author Bio.doc
Getting Published: Are you my publisher.doc
To schedule an event, please contact Lisa at Saundersbooks@aol.com
Scheduled Events
Ever True: The Love Letters Between a Union Private and His Teenage Wife
Tuesday, March 4, 11:00 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.
Rockland Community College, Student Union
Suffern, NY
In celebratin of Women's History Month. Admission free and open to the public.
Contact Lisa Saunders, lsaunde2@sunyrockland.edu, 845-574-2242
Ride a Horse, Not an Elevator
April 14,15, and 17 at 4:15 - 5:00 pm
Suffern Free Library
Suffern, NY
In celebration of National Library Week
For children K-2. Admission free and open to the public.
Contact: Jennifer Smith , 845-357-1237x31
Writing and Publishing Your Family History
Wednesday, May 28, 4-5 p.m.
Glen Arden, 46 Harriman Drive, Goshen, NY 10924, 1-800.914.4051
My Daughter Elizabeth's Life with congenital CMV
November 5 -7, 2008
2008 Congenital CMV Conference (CCC ’08)
Centers for Disease Control (CDC)'s Harkin Global Communications Center in Atlanta, Georgia.
Contact:
Lenore Pereira, PhD
University of California San Francisco
513 Parnassus, C-734, Box-0640
San Francisco, CA 94143
office 415-476-8248
When Lisa Saunders speaks on EVER TRUE she covers the following topics:
How Lisa became interested in this project (her interest in the Civil War, finding the letters).
The condition of the letters.
Unrecognizable words and missing dates.
The help Lisa received from historians and the elder generation.
Where Lisa did the research (battlefields, forts, National Archives, rare books)
Artifacts and family secrets she uncovered
The background information needed to provide the context for the letters.
Deciding what to edit (Nancy's dead brother’s letters, prison and arrest records).
Nancy McDowell's role in the war (running a pie business from Fort Foote).
Other than battles, what other events can people expect to read (medical treatments, cooking and tent living, desertions, hangings, murder and theft, the occupying of a Confederate home, the stresses on Charles and Nancy’s marriage, prostitution).
Charles's impression of Lincoln and Seward.
How Nancy and Charles felt about the war and the South.
Lisa will read the letter of the Battle of Cold Harbor
Battle Lisa was most affected by.
She’ll discuss her favorite letter that speaks of his longing for Canada.
Charles and Nancy’s life after the war.
Where she did the writing.
The recipes Lisa included and why (apple pies, dumplings, hoecakes, sugar cakes, etc).
If you are looking for other speakers in the Hudson Valley area, you may contact:
Lisa Saunders (saundersbooks@aol.com) can speak on Civil War, "How to get Published" and "Raising a Child with Special Needs."
Dan McInerney, (845-357-2535) Civil War Reenactor
Marty Erickson (Marthase@aol.com) can speak on the The Brick Church and/or her family's Civil War letters
Cecile Kaufer (845-368-4939) can speak on her experiences in hiding during the Nazi occupation of France.
Linda Zimmerman http://www.frontiernet.net/~lindazim/ Can speak on Civil War and All Rockland County History.
Paul Martin http://www.paulmartinart.com/index.html President of the Rockland County Historical Society. Can speak on art and American History.
Faculty and Staff at SUNY Rockland Community College can be reached by visiting: www.sunyrockland.edu
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