2014 Ella Dickey Literacy Award Winner for A Rare Titanic Family
From Betsi Yvette via Facebook:
"I finished reading A Rare Titanic Family. It’s an absolute treasure, so moving that I cried in the end.❤️ Thank you, Julie Hedgepeth Williams!"
Click the radio to hear the terrific podcast about the Caldwells on the Titanic:
All
New!
Little Newspapers on the Prairie: The Frontier Press Career
of Carrie Ingalls
Julie Hedgepeth Williams,
author and speaker
Click the cover of my new booklet, Little Newspapers on the Prairie, to find out about Carrie Ingalls' career in the press.
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ABOUT ME
I'm an author, speaker, and part-time professor - I teach journalism and freshman English at Samford University in Birmingham, Alabama.
I'm the past president of the national American Journalism Historians Association (AJHA), and I love taking my students to present their papers at the AJHA-Southeast student symposium.
I feel a kinship with each of my books. I was born in Dayton, Ohio (the Wright brothers' home town) on Wright-Patterson Air Force Base (the Wright brothers' old flying field). I grew up in North Carolina, where the Wright brothers first flew.... My great-uncle survived that Titanic at age 26 and lived to be 91, so it was my privilege to hear the story firsthand from him dozens of times. My husband and I live in a house built the year before the Titanic sailed its only voyage, and one of our sons is named Alden for the baby in our Titanic family.... My grandmother Dorothy "Dolly" Congleton was born on Joel Chandler Harris's birthday. Three Not-So-Ordinary Joes opens with little Dolly's confusion over whose birthday it actually was, as the entire Atlanta school system closed (as she thought) in honor of her turning 6. It took her quite some time to realize the holiday was in honor of the third of the three Joes, Harris. I've loved seeing the places two of the three Joes lived and worked.
As you can see from the photo at the left, I dress in costume for my Titanic shows. I plan to come in costume for my Three Not-So-Ordinary Joes shows, too.
If you'd like to contact me about a show, I'm available at "Julie Hedgepeth Williams" on Facebook and at joldnews@bellsouth.net. I'd love to meet your group!