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AUTHOR VISITS

Presentations are most appropriate for grades 4 to adult.  Gail will work with a school to offer a program that best fits its students and curriculum. Please contact her by email for more on fees and dates.

Examples of topics include:

• Researching Nonfiction - Using primary and secondary sources.  Finding authoritative online information. Locating archival documents. Searching for photographs and illustrations. Fact-checking. Taking notes. Avoiding plagiarism. 
• Writing Technique - Eye-catching titles, engaging beginnings, page-turning middles, satisfying endings, essential revisions.
• The Path to Publication - Developing an idea into an article or book. Focusing the topic. Outlining, writing, and rewriting. Working with an editor. Checking page proofs.
• Creating Fiction - Planning a plot, fleshing out characters, bringing the story to life.
• Civil War Spy Balloons
                   Thaddeus Lowe
                   Abraham Lincoln’s Spies
                   Civil War

• In Frewsburg, New York, Gail shows 7th & 8th grade students Robert H. Jackson's elementary school report cards -- a sample of the archival documents she used in her research of the justice's life.

  Robert H. Jackson
                    How he rose from farm boy to Supreme Court Justice.
                    Researching his life.
                    New Deal & FDR
                    World War II
                    Nuremberg Trial and International Law
                    Court Decisions dealing with freedom of speech and religion,
                    Japanese internment, school segregation, presidential powers
• John Peter Zenger trial
                    Freedom of the Press
                    The Bill of Rights
                    Eighteenth-Century Colonial Printing
  
• Animal Behavior (care of young, defense, food-getting)
  

 

 

 

 

June 2011 at Washington's Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum with Lincoln's Flying Spies:

Celebrating the day with Thaddeus Lowe's great-great grandson, Lance Ferm.

Gail meets "Thaddeus Lowe" and "Abraham Lincoln" on the National Mall. Behind them is a replica of Lowe's spy balloon.

A new plaque marks the historic spot where Thaddeus Lowe demonstrated
his balloon for President Lincoln 150 years ago.

Pictures from other events:

Gail attends the 2008 National Press Club Book Fair in Washington.

Robert H. Jackson: New Deal Lawyer, Supreme Court Justice, Nuremberg Prosecutor was a featured title for the 2009 Big Read in New York's Chautauqua and Cattaraugus counties. After a Big Read event held at the Robert H. Jackson Center in Jamestown, New York, Gail signs a book for Juanita Wallace Jackson.

Gail gives presentation about Lincoln’s Flying Spies at the
2010 Southern Festival of Books, in Nashville.

 

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