Little Satchmo: A Daughter’s Story with Sharon Preston-Folta
Little Satchmo: A Daughter’s Story with Sharon Preston-Folta
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Sharon Preston-Folta has spent a thirty-plus-year career in advertising sales and marketing, predominantly as an account executive in radio. She's worked with such companies as Fairchild Publications and WLNY TV in Long Island, and ABC/Disney and CBS Radio and Emmis Communications in New York City. She is currently Sr. Account Executive with WUSF Public Media in Tampa, FL. Sharon became a published author with her memoir "Living in The Shadow of my Father, Louis Daniel Armstrong" in 2012, which made public the private family life of Louis Armstrong, Lucille 'Sweets' Preston, his mistress for 21 years and their child, Sharon. In 2019 she began production on Little Satchmo documentary which is based on her memoir. The documentary made it worldwide premiere in June 2021 at the Thessaloniki Documentary film festival.
In addition to her AA from Westchester Community College and BA in Communication Arts from Iona College, Sharon’s love of cooking led her to attend the Institute of Culinary Education nights and weekends, where she earned two professional degrees; Culinary in 1999 and culinary Management in 2005. Sharon believes in giving back to the community and has used her cooking skills as a Chef Instructor in the Cooking Matters program. She's currently a Volunteer Programmer at WSLR 96.5 LP FM in Sarasota, Florida where she resides with her husband, Howard, a musician.
Learn more about Sharon and the documentary at: littlesatchmodoc.com/
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Brilliantly Disturbing Historical Fiction with Thea Sutton
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Thea Sutton has a PhD in English literature with books and articles to her credit. She has worked in marketing and communications while dividing her time between Toronto and Southern California.
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The Book Queen Brings a Love of Books and Teas to the On-line World and Her Community
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Michelle Burgess is passionate about books that “fuel the soul & mind.” She is the founder of “Book Queens” an online website dedicated to supplying books on African American culture. She is still solidly rooted in Oakland California, where she was born and raised. As a youngster, she read Maya Angelou’s I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings the book that touched hearts worldwide, including hers. That was the jumping off point for a life-long relationship of intrigue and joy in the world of books. She also has an interesting relationship with tea and fine china that dates back to her grandmother. From books, to tea, to being the “Herbalist Queen,” Michelle presents you with remarkable books, custom-made teas, and a great book-buying experience. To learn more about Michelle and Book Queens go to www.bookqueens.com
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The Importance of what’s left untold with USA Today Bestselling Author Sherri Leimkuhler
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Sherri Leimkuhler is the USA Today Bestselling Author of What's Left Untold. She has written professionally for more than twenty years but is a Jill of many trades, with experience in sales, marketing, public relations, event planning, aviation, and yoga instruction. Her health-and-fitness column, “For the Fun of Fit,” appeared bi-weekly in the Carroll County Times for a decade.
A competitive triathlete and two-time Ironman finisher, Sherri also enjoys reading, hiking, paddleboarding, trail running, traveling, and wine tasting. Sherri lives in Maryland with her husband, three daughters, and two Labrador retrievers. To learn more about Sherri and her work, visit: http://www.sherrileimkuhler.com/
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Telling the Earth’s Story with Nobel Peace Prize Winner for Climate Change Professor Terry Root
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Dr. Terry Root is an active conservator of the earth and all its species. She was a lead author of the Intergovernmental Panel for Climate Change Report in 2007, resulting in Dr. Root being co-awarded the Nobel Peace Prize along with Vice President Al Gore. In addition to other honors, Root was awarded the “Spirit of Defenders Award for Science” by Defenders of Wildlife in 2010, and a Lifetime Achievement Award in 2016 from the conservation organization Point Blue. She served on the National Audubon Board of Directors from 2010 to 2019, currently serves on the board of Defenders of Wildlife, Birds Caribbean, and is on numerous science advisory boards, including the American Wind and Wildlife Institute.
Root earned her undergraduate degree in Mathematics and Statistics from the University of New Mexico, her master’s degree in Biology from the University of Colorado and her doctorate in Biology from Princeton University. She was a professor at the University of Michigan for 15 years, and then at Stanford University for 15 years where she still serves as Professor Emerita. She joins us at the microphone from her home in Sarasota, FL. You can contact Dr. Root at [email protected]
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A Natural Event with Supernatural Repercussions with Robert Gwaltney
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Robert Gwaltney, an author of Southern fiction, resides in Atlanta Georgia, where he is an active member of the local literary community and serves as Fiction Editor for The Blue Mountain Review. By day he helps leads a national non-profit. By night he is author, author-supporter, and a bit of a Facebook maverick. His debut novel, The Cicada Tree, will be released by Moonshine Cove Publishing, February 25, 2022. To learn more about Robert, visit his website: robertlgwaltney.com
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An Unexpected Life of Challenge, Quest, Contribution, and Creativity with Lily Iona MacKenzie
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A Canadian by birth, a high school dropout, and a mother at 17, Lily Iona MacKenzie supported herself as a stock girl and a cocktail waitress. She briefly broke into the male-dominated world of the docks as a longshoreman, where she almost got her legs broken. She founded and managed a homeless shelter; co-created “The Story Shoppe,” a weekly radio program for children; and eventually earned two Master’s degrees (one in Creative writing and one in the Humanities).
In addition to publishing her poetry, short fiction, and non-fiction., she has published four novels, Fling!, Freefall: A Divine Comedy, Curva Peligrosa and the just released sequel to Freefall, The Ripening: A Canadian Girl Grows Up. Ms. MacKenzie currently teaches creative writing at the University of San Francisco’s Fromm Institute for Lifelong Learning and blogs at lilyionamackenzie.com.
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Folklore Inspired Fiction Emanates From a ‘She-Shed’ in Virginia with Meredith Stoddard
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Find out more about Meredith at www.meredithstoddard.com/ and follow her on Instagram at www.instagram.com/mrstoddard/
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The Storytellers - Bookish Broads: Women Who Wrote Themselves Into History with Lauren Marino
Lauren Marino is a writer and longtime publishing executive. Prior to her current roles as Executive Editor at Hachette Books she was VP, Editorial Director of Gotham Books, where she was the founding editor in 2001, publishing multiple bestsellers and award-winning books. She is the author of What Would Dolly Do? How to Be a Diamond in a Rhinestone World and Jackie and Cassini: A Fashion Love Affair, and has collaborated with celebrities, doctors, entrepreneurs, and psychologists. She is a lifetime book lover and reader and lives in New York City.
Learn more about Lauren at www.laurenmarinobooks.com
The Storytellers hosted by Grace Sammon, focuses on individuals who choose to leave their mark on the world through the art of story. Each episode engages guests and listeners in the story behind the story of authors, artists, reporters and others who leave a legacy of storytelling. Applying her years of experience as an educator, entrepreneur, author, and storyteller herself, Grace brings to listeners an intimate one-on-one experience with her guests. To contact Grace about being a guest on the show, email her at [email protected]
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Grace Sammon and "The Storytellers" presents author Isla Morley
Grace Sammon and "The Storytellers" presents author Isla Morley
Isla Morley grew up in South Africa during apartheid, the child of a British father and fourth-generation South African mother. In 1994 she was one of the youngest magazine editors in South Africa, but left career, country and kin when she married an American and moved to California. The Last Blue, her third novel, was selected by the Southern Fiction Review of Books as a “must-read” Best Book of May 2020. It has been translated into French. Her debut novel, Come Sunday, was awarded Janet Heidinger Kafka Prize for Fiction, was a finalist for the Commonwealth Prize, and was longlisted for The Sunday Times award. It has been translated into seven languages. Above was chosen as a Best Buzz Books 2014 by Publishers Lunch and was an IndieNext must-read. She has lived in some of the most culturally diverse places of the world, including Cape Town, London and Honolulu. Now in the Los Angeles area, she shares a home with her husband, their daughter and a menagerie of pets. Learn more about Isla at www.islamorley.com/
The Storytellers hosted by Grace Sammon, focuses on individuals who choose to leave their mark on the world through the art of story. Each episode engages guests and listeners in the story behind the story of authors, artists, reporters and others who leave a legacy of storytelling. Applying her years of experience as an educator, entrepreneur, author, and storyteller herself, Grace brings to listeners an intimate one-on-one experience with her guests. To contact Grace about being a guest on the show, email her at [email protected]
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The Storytellers - Peripatetic Lifestyle Leads to Creative Storytelling with Susan Sammon
Join me and this week’s remarkable guest. Learn about iPhoneography and more. Full disclosure. I’ve known Susan 62 years and have loved every minute.
Susan Sammon has been a television studio manager, food PR executive, environmental scuba diver, alternative educator and small business owner. As a result of her various jobs and interests, she has visited nearly 100 countries, touching down on all seven continents. Traveling for work and pleasure to exotic destinations, Susan had a unique opportunity to develop her image-making skills, which she honed using her iPhone camera.
Susan is co-author, along with her photographer husband Rick, of ten books. Her most recent titles, The Oregon Coast Photo Road Trip (2019) and The Route 66 Photo Road Trip (2018) are published by Countryman Press. Currently, Susan is curating her images for a photo note card collection and teaching iPhone photography to local community groups. While the pandemic has curtailed her international travel, it has also nurtured explorations of surprising destinations closer to home. Susan lives with her husband in New York’s scenic Hudson Valley.
In addition to her work in iPhonography, Susan enjoys hiking, gardening and reading. She credits an early book, James Michener’s, The Drifters, which she read as a young woman while commuting to a job in New York City, as awakening her desire to visit foreign lands. Great storytelling has always been an important influence in Susan’s life. She now uses her iPhone photos as her own storytelling medium, featuring the places and people she has encountered in her travels.
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c and “The Storytellers:” Science, Storytelling, and Song with Dr. Ysaye Barnwell
One of my most poignant episodes. Dr. Barnwell’s music has influenced my work for 20 years. Her song Memories to Teach Me influenced The Eves. Now with her own memory failing, we sit down and talk. Listen! And listen to her music on my website gracesammon.net
https://youtu.be/VmTw6yssAKE
https://open.spotify.com/show/14VSqolqyNOo3GcpLH4u7K
Dr. Ysaye M. Barnwell is a native New Yorker now living in Washington, DC she is the only child and perfect blend of her mother, a registered nurse and her father, a classical violinist. Dr. Barnwell studied violin beginning at age 2 ½, and majored in music through high school. With this background, she went on to earn the Bachelor and Master of Science degrees in Speech Pathology (SUNY, Geneseo, 1967, 1968), Doctor of Philosophy in Speech Pathology (University of Pittsburgh, 1975), and the Master of Science in Public Health (Howard University, 1981). In 1998, Dr. Barnwell was awarded the Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree by her alma mater, SUNY Geneseo. She recently received the Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree from the Meadville Lombard Theological Seminary in Chicago, IL (2009) and the Virginia Theological Seminary (2011). For over a decade, Dr. Barnwell was a professor at the College of Dentistry at Howard University, after which she conducted community-based projects in computer technology and the arts, and administered health programs at Children’s Hospital National Medical Center and at Gallaudet University in Washington, DC. Dr. Barnwell joined the acapella musical group “Sweet Honey In The Rock®” in 1979 and her training as a Sign Language Interpreter, led her to facilitated the group’s tradition of including a Sign Language Interpreter in the ensemble. After 34 years Barnwell retired from Sweet Honey In The Rock to pursue her other interests. Learn more about Dr. Barnwell at www.ymbarnwell.com/
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Grace Sammon and “The Storytellers:” Behind the Lens with Jeanne Sacken
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A former English professor, Jeannee Sacken is a photojournalist who travels extensively in Africa, Asia, and Latin America, documenting the lives of women and children. She also presents the series, "Journeys to the Ends of the Earth," at schools and libraries. She recently published her first novel, suspenseful women's fiction, Behind The Lens, featuring Annie Hawkins Green, a war photographer armed with a camera. Jeannee lives with her husband and three cats in Milwaukee, WI, where she's working on the sequel to Behind The Lens. In her spare time, she enjoys adventure travel. Find out more about Jeannee https://www.jeanneesacken.com
The Storytellers hosted by Grace Sammon, focuses on individuals who choose to leave their mark on the world through the art of story. Each episode engages guests and listeners in the story behind the story of authors, artists, reporters and others who leave a legacy of storytelling. Applying her years of experience as an educator, entrepreneur, author, and storyteller herself, Grace brings to listeners an intimate one-on-one experience with her guests. To contact Grace about being a guest on the show, email her at [email protected]
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Grace Sammon and “The Storytellers:” Awakening a Love for Historical Fiction with Libby McNamee
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https://open.spotify.com/episode/3YEn7AhptXHpxcCmECzJeC
Libby McNamee is an author, lawyer, and US Army Veteran. Her second novel, Dolley Madison and the War of 1812 published in August on the 207th anniversary of the burning of Washington City. Her first, Susanna’s Midnight Ride: The Girl Who Won the Revolutionary War was named #1 in Juvenile Fiction by the Independent Publisher Book Awards and Pinnacle Book Awards, and Finalist in Historical Fiction by the Best Book Awards. The Virginia General Assembly created “Susanna Bolling Day” to be held December 5th each year based upon Libby’s research. A native of Boston, Libby graduated from Georgetown University and Catholic University School of Law. She also served as an Army JAG Officer in Korea, Bosnia, Germany, and Washington State. Libby lives in Richmond, VA, with her patient husband and high school son who loves history most of all. Find out more about Libby at http://libbymcnamee.com
The Storytellers hosted by Grace Sammon, focuses on individuals who choose to leave their mark on the world through the art of story. Each episode engages guests and listeners in the story behind the story of authors, artists, reporters and others who leave a legacy of storytelling. Applying her years of experience as an educator, entrepreneur, author, and storyteller herself, Grace brings to listeners an intimate one-on-one experience with her guests. To contact Grace about being a guest on the show, email her at [email protected]
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Grace Sammon and “The Storytellers” From Journalist to Novelist with Christina Hoag
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https://open.spotify.com/episode/2knUcvkotW0Os7iFrnDqWx
Christina Hoag is a former journalist who has had her laptop searched by Colombian guerrillas, phone tapped in Venezuela, was suspected of drug trafficking in Guyana, hid under a car to evade Guatemalan soldiers, and posed as a nun to get inside a Caracas jail. She has interviewed gang members, bank robbers, thieves and thugs in prisons, shantytowns and slums, not to forget billionaires and presidents, some of whom fall into the previous categories. Now she writes about such characters in her award-winning fiction. Find out more about Christina at www.christinahoag.com
The Storytellers hosted by Grace Sammon, focuses on individuals who choose to leave their mark on the world through the art of story. Each episode engages guests and listeners in the story behind the story of authors, artists, reporters and others who leave a legacy of storytelling. Applying her years of experience as an educator, entrepreneur, author, and storyteller herself, Grace brings to listeners an intimate one-on-one experience with her guests. To contact Grace about being a guest on the show, email her at [email protected]
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