STORYTELLER & SPEAKER
Earlier presentations & Topics:
Langdon Weekend, an arts festival in Granbury, TX will showcase various Texas artists—story and poem, script and narrative, music and film. Carmen will tell the stories of women who’ve figured in the growth of Texas as a country and a state, from long ago to recent days. These stories have unwound in her column, “Texas Dames.” She will speak at 1:30 p.m. at the Dora Lee Langdon Cultural & Educational Center, Friday, September 7. Tarleton State College sponsors the annual festival of arts that runs September 5-8.
Photo: Carmen, telling the stories of these valiant Texas dames at the Forum. A rancher in the crowd said, “Reminds me of my Mama.”
“Joy Horizon Fellowship Luncheon, Springtown, “Texas Dames & Their Stories.”
“Prairie Festival”—Sponsored by Botanical Research Institute of Texas, Carmen will talk about the women who first saw the countryside of Texas, from as early as the late 1700's. Much of the information for these stories—in various sections (the prairie sections)—has been gathered from diaries and correspondence, so the tales are in the words of these early pioneers, both Mexican and Anglo.
Carmen Goldthwaite, with hosts for the Forum of Wichita Falls program, Linda and John Christoff.
Huntsville, TX, for the Huntsville Public Library’s first Helen Wheat Memorial Fund Program: “Standing Tall in Her Footsteps."
“The Yellow Rose of Texas—Emily Morgan”—National Cowgirl Hall of Fame, Fort Worth. http://cowgirl.net/
“Petticoats on Prairie Posts” symposium address to Texas Fort Trail Reenactors, Stockyards, Fort Worth. http://www.fortworth.com/
“The Steamboat that Saved Texas”—Westerners of Fort Worth
“The Confederate Paul Revere—Sophia Porter”—Westerners of Fort Worth
“Texas’ Ranch Women through History--an Overview”— The Woman’s Club of Fort Worth
“Texas Ranch Women & The Cowgirl Hall of Fame & Museum”—Western Writers of America Convention. http://westernwriters.org/
Dusting off the stories of Texas and Texans from attics, archives and anecdotes, Carmen tells these stories to women and western history groups, libraries and museums, business and church organizations as well as community celebrations.
To Schedule a talk or a story, contact Carmen@carmengoldthwaite.com
Other topics: “Early Texas Medicine...from a Woman’s Perspective,” “Trail Driving Women,” “Pioneering Educators & Preachers—Women,” “They Held the Purse Strings—Bankers and Financiers.”
“Thanks for your tremendous contribution to the Muster Symposium.”—Quentin McGowen, Texas Fort Trails Symposium, Fort Worth.
“You brought these ranch women to life.”—Lucille Estell, Milam County Historical Society Symposium
“I enjoyed your talk at Rockdale’s History Symposium...it was interesting,”—Linda Ramsey
“Thank you for helping to preserve and communicate historical preservation...”—Joy Graham, Milam County Historical Society Symposium
Still other subjects will evolve as she explores the reaches of Texas for stories of Texas Women Pioneers in all fields for her new, statewide newspaper column, “Texas Dames.Ô”
