Audiences have enjoyed tracing Texas’ tradition of hospitality from the earliest times to modern Texas; or, the foods and music that various waves of settlers brought to Texas, or Tejas. On another occasion, I spoke about the women of the forts—military wives and their mix (or not) with settlers.

I’ve spoken to businesses, schools, historical associations and gatherings, churches, a cooking school and women’s clubs. Each one beckons a niche for a program tailored to their members’ interests. Let’s talk!

CONTACT: carmengoldthwaite@sbcglobal.net for a program whether about women who…

• Swapped bread and pies for hunks of venison from the Indians of Texas;
  
  
• Traded quips with legislators over women’s right to vote;
  
  
• Picked up ranch reins from fallen husbands, sons, fathers and brothers...and thrived;
  
  
• Sallied into fields as risqué (at the time for women as medicine), law and preaching;
  
  
• Swapped high fashion couture for mud huts—jackals in South Texas, soddies in West Texas;
  
  
• Who ran dynasties of family and ranching—cattle, sheep, polo and cutting horses
  
  
• The first to fly the skies…when it wasn’t “feminine”
  
  
• Who lived in the 1700’s or the 20th Century
  
  
• Who wore native dress or Spanish fashion
  
  

A SIDE NOTE…Texas women applaud the “Dames” and “Sassy and Savvy” titles used on my books as descriptions of these women…a testament that we still pride ourselves on these traits that early women called on to “run sprawling ranches, helm major banks and shape Lone Star History.”

HOW FUN… to tell their stories! Do contact me if you’d like to schedule such an event for your group—civic, church, professional, historical, educational, etc. carmengoldthwaite@sbcglobal.net OR 817 726 0412.