Lectures

 

Category: History

 

 

The American Revolution

 

Fee: Available upon request

Contact: Kenneth A. Hoglund

Phone Number: 631-474-0306

E-Mail: klsjbh5@aol.com

Address: 118 Mt. Sinai Avenue, Mt. Sinai, NY 11766

 

Description:

 

Since 1998 Kenneth has offered a presentation on The American Revolution to elementary and middle schools.  He now offers several programs, "The Militia of the North Folk" which is a general overview of the character and performance of the American military during the Revolution, "The Battle of Setauket" which examines a relatively small local battle and its influence on a key event of the Revolution, and "Roots of United States Special Forces Traditions - Major Tallmadge's Troop of Light Dragoons." Each program runs about 60-90 minutes and is suitable for adults and young adults. At all presentations Kenneth appears in 18th century dress with 18th century equipment.

 

 

Laurie J. Campbell

 

Fee: Available upon request

Contact: Laurie J. Campbell

Phone Number: 516-796-4514

E-Mail: campbell_noel@hotmail.com

Address: 52 Dogwood Lane, Levittown, NY 11756

 

Description:

 

Laurie J. Campbells travel experience lies in unusual and exotic destinations. She has done over 55,000 slide show/lectures in libraries.

 

Topics are:

China and the Minorities, Russia and Eastern Siberia, Australian Outback, Alaskan Wildlife Adventures, The Isles of the Caribbean, America and It's National Parks, Mountains and Jungles of Ecuador and Peru, Egypt and the Nile River, East African Safari's, The Wonders of the Greek Isles, Rainforest Riches, Indonesia - Land of 3000 Islands, Italy and the Islands of the Mediterranean, Albania and Macedonia, Iceland - Land of Fire and Ice, Trekking on Top of the World - Tibet and Nepal, Scandinavian Secrets, The Lost Islands of the  South Atlantic and Antarctica, World and Windy Patagonia, Vietnam, Cambodia, and Laos, New Zealand - "The Other Land Down Under", Turkey - A Crossroads of Cultures, The Jewels of India, Ireland - Castles and Countryside, An Indian Ocean Odyssey, The Canadian Maritimes, The Horn of Africa,  Cook Islands, Eastern Europe.

 

 

Saul Silas Fathi

 

Fee: Available upon request

Contact: Saul Silas Fathi

Phone Number: 631-232-1638

Fax: 631-234-4846

E-Mail: fathi@optonline.net

Address: 27 Broadlawn Drive, NY 11722

www.saulsilasfathi.com

 

Description:

 

Saul Silas Fathi was born to a prominent Jewish family in Baghdad, Iraq, on May 8, 1938. At age 10, he and his younger brother were smuggled out of Baghdad through Iran and eventually reached the newly formed state of Israel. He began writing a diary at age 11 and had several stories published in Israeli youth magazines.

 

Lectures:

 

Full Circle: Escape from Baghdad and the Return:

Chronicles a prominent Iraqi Jewish family's escape from persecution, through the journey of one family member, a young boy, who witnesses public hangings and the 1941 Krystalnacht (Farhood) in Baghdad.

 

After a dangerous escape from Iraq, this 10 year old begins a lifelong search for meaning and his place in the world.  This journey takes him to the newly formed nation of Israel, then to Brazil, and eventually to the United States.

 

Other Lectures Include:

History of the Jews and Israel

The History of Islam and the Middle East

Jewish Life in Arab Countries

Cosmology: The Big Bang, Black Holes and UFO's

 

 

Genealogy Workshop

 

Fee: $140

Contact: Jean King

Phone Number: 516-481-6591 or 516-739-8627

Address: 3 Cornwall Lane,  Apt. 2K, Carle Place, NY 11514

 

Description:

 

Jean King will teach you how to trace your roots. She will teach you how to find vital, cenus, military, and naturalization records of your family members.

 

 

Merilee Kaufman

 

Great Women in History

Meals on Reals

Fee: $250

Contact: Merilee Kaufman

Phone Number: 516-766-4825

E-mail: merileek@optonline.net

Address: 3256 Elliott Boulevard, Oceanside, NY 11572

 

Description:

 

Great Women in History:

Hyseria, Hynotism. Internment in an insane asylum. Is that any way for a nice social worker to begin? It was, in the case of Anna O, the first person in history to be psychoanalyzed; Lillian Wald, the rich woman from the Midwest who battled thugs on New York's lower East Side as she founded the Henry Street Settlement., and Eleanor Roosevelt, the "ugly duckling" of her family who had to live under the thumb of her husband's dictatorial mother - until she liberated herself. Scenes from these plays will be interspersed with poetry readings.

 

Meals on Reels:

Time travel to yesteryear, and other exciting destinations in a lively program of original humor-spiced stories, articles and poems (much about food). Merilee reads her article Stars Under Stress: celebrities, just like you and I, reach for comfort food. But what's in the cookie jars of Beverly Sills, Lynn Redgrave and Gene Shallit and so much more!

 

 

 

Long Island's Most Haunted Mansions

 

Fee: Available upon request

Contact: Monica Randall

Phone Number: 516-921-7438

Address: PO Box 75, Oyster Bay, NY 11771

 

Description:

 

Ever since the beginning of time man has pondered the existence of ghosts and life after death. Are some of Long Island Mansions haunted? Join historian, parapsychologist, and best selling author Monica Randall as she shares some true stories of spectral beings who sometimes show up on film and make their ethereal voices heard during the night.