TN Valley Civil War Round Table Meeting, March 14, Presenting:
Phone: 256-539-5287
Website: http://sites.google.com/site/tvcwrt/

Women on both sides of the conflict did their part for the war effort – as spies, soldiers, nurses, and supporters from the home front. This program shares the true, sometimes funny, sometimes touching, stories of some of the sisters, wives, mothers, and daughters who snooped, smuggled, sewed, nursed, and risked their lives, health, and fortunes for a cause they loved. The program includes photographs, letters, journal entries, and excerpts from memoirs written by these women after the war.

"Dolores Hydock talks with her hands. And her elbows. And her shoulders. When she speaks, she is literally irrepressible." That's how one reviewer described Dolores' vivacious style that fills the stage with wit, energy, and a swirl of characters that populate her stories of family fireworks, food fads, true love, turnip greens, and other peculiarities of everyday life. Her award-winning personal stories, oral histories, medieval adventures, and traditional tales are, as one reviewer said, “smart but not cynical, heartwarming yet never corny, traditional without being mundane...a neat feat!”

Dolores is a raconteur from Birmingham, Alabama. She grew up in Reading, Pennsylvania and got her start in storytelling at the age of five when she won a blue ribbon in a local storytelling contest. The real gold lettering on the ribbon convinced her there must be a fortune in the performing arts. She continues to hope. She has been a featured teller at the National Storytelling Festival in Jonesborough and many other festivals, has served as Teller-in-Residence at the International Storytelling Center, and has won Resource Awards from Storytelling World Magazine for her nine CDs of original stories.

Presented by the Tennessee Valley Civil War Round Table, this free program will be held Thursday, March 21, beginning at 6:30 p.m. at the Elks Lodge, 725 Franklin St., Huntsville. And don't forget: All are welcome. For more information, phone 256-539-5287.