Stories from a small town...

Thursday, August 15, 2013

IndyFringe13!

Ladies and Gentlemen!

Presenting Live:

Lou Ann Homan in concert

at the IndyFringe with her new show,

The Baptist Girl's Guide to Sex, Love, and Happiness!

All shows will be held at the

Phoenix Basile Theatre,

749 N. Park Avenue

Indianapolis, Indiana

Tonight the opening ceremony begins at 7:00 on Mass Ave. My first show is Friday night at 9:00! For more information on my show and all the others, please go to INDYFRINGE.ORG!

My shows are sponsored by IndyFringe and Storytelling Arts of Indiana.

See you at the show!

Tuesday, August 13, 2013

Saying farewell at the Amtrak Station...do I even need words?

It is time to leave one home for another....

It is time to leave one home for another - KPC Media Group: Kpcnews

Dear Friends,

Thank you for being patient with this blog. It has been a very emotional week leaving one home for another. Saying good bye is the hardest.

I am back home with lots of other adventures as well!

Thanks to all of you.

Please just click the above link for this week's article!

Lou Ann

Sunday, August 04, 2013

The Marla Brooke

With August’s arrival comes the lasts of summer - KPC Media Group: Kpcnews

Dear Friends,

Once again I am out and about on the island looking for a good story. Above is the link to this week's column! As always, thank you for reading.

Lou Ann

Early morning on Silver Lake

This is the trawler, The Marla Brooke, from Georgetown, South Carolina.

Friday, August 02, 2013

Happy Birthday Philip!

Today is Philip's birthday and I know how he is valued in his community of Ocracoke preserving traditions and culture. Most of our breakfast conversations relate to stories from a hundred years ago...well almost.

Happy Birthday to the island historian, beloved Opa in all our families, and my best friend.

Also happy birthday to his grandson Lachlan

Lou Ann

Tuesday, July 30, 2013

An invitation to all ye on Ocracoke Island!

It is with great excitement that I invite you all to the Deep Water Theater on Friday or Saturday evening for my new show, A Baptist Girl's Guide to Love and Happiness (a coming of age story!)

Sundae Horn and Marcy Brenner will share the stage with me with musical interludes from decades gone by.

The show starts at 8:30 and tickets are $7.00 at the door! Hope to see you at the show!

I took this photo of myself at age 20!

Sunday, July 28, 2013

Islanders teach their children the value of work....

Islanders teach their children the value of work - KPC Media Group: Kpcnews

Dear Friends,

Another Sunday morning on the Island. It is quiet except for the morning church bells calling folks out of cottages to attend services.

Yesterday was full of visitors...mostly family members related to Philip in some way or other. The conversations were of Ocracoke long ago and now. Many other discussions followed about how folks were actually related...third cousins once removed? No, my uncle's second cousin twice removed! Since I am not related to any of them, I could just shake my head and eat brownies!

The above is the link to this week's column! Enjoy. The following photos will help you see the story! Oh, I might add Sundae sent me a text saying she was not in charge of Bingo any more, but she was for a long time!

Hoisting the sail on the Wilma Lee

Susan's ice cream shop

Sundae Horn with her youngest child, Mariah Daisy

Storyteller's Journal

Dear Folks,

Welcome to my world of storytelling, writing, and as you can see, dreamer of dreams. My storytelling has taken me to all sorts of locations around the country and in a few other countries. I have shows suitable for all ages and interests.

I do programs for teachers, for poets, for students, and for all who love the sound of language and words. I also am a Fringe Festival artist!

I also am a faculty member of Trine University where I teach writing and speech. I am a columnist for our local paper, The Herald Republican. My columns appear on Saturday and have been featured for nine years!

I am a traveler, a hobo, a drifter, a gatherer of tales, and a one-woman show. Thanks for taking the time to take a look. I would love to talk with you, share emails and blogs or even share a cup of tea in my lovely old house. Above all, I would love to share stories with you.

Lou Ann

Storytelling in Schools

Murder Mystery Weekends

Research Projects for your town

Scary Stories for the Autumn

Summer reading programs

Anne Bonny and other women pirates

Winter Woolies

Keynoting for schools

Workshops for students and teachers

Square Dance calling

Writing workshops

Poetry and Haiku workshops

Writing and directing of shows (especially murder mystery shows for middle school, have several to choose from. This is a weeklong residency.)

Annie's Attic, also a weeklong residency for elementary students.

Fringe shows

Zumba classes (not quite ready for that one!)

Barn sitting

Bowling (Just kidding!)

You can also follow me on Facebook and email: Locketoftime@aol.com

I am looking forward to having conversations with you!

Lou Ann

Recommended books by Lou Ann.

Sister by Rosamund Lupton

Burial Rites by Hannah Kent

Loving Frank by Nancy Horan

This is a wonderful historical novel about Frank Lloyd Wright and his mistress, Mamah Cheney. I could not put the pick down. My book club gave it a four out of five!

Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortenson

The Historian by Barbara Koslova

The Glass Castle by Jeannette Wall

The Physick Book of Deliverance Dane by Katherine Howe

In Defense of Food by Michael Pollan

A Sand Almanac by Aldo Leopold

Winter by Rick Bass

The Help by Kathryn Stockett

The Paris Wife by Paula McLain.

This is a wonderful historical fiction about Ernest Hemingway's first marriage. Could not put the book down!

The Red Garden by Alice Hoffman.

The Heretic's Daughter by Kathleen Kent.

Caleb's Crossing by Geraldine Brooks.

A nice little bio...

Lou Ann Homan is a writer, a teacher, a storyteller and a lover of small towns. Her enthusiasm for teaching has graced Indiana classrooms for over 30 years and has been twice awarded the prestigious Lilly Teacher Creativity Award. She is currently a professor at Trine University in the Humanities and Communication Department. In 20017 she was awarded the outstanding Adjunct Teacher award at Trine University.

Lou Ann is an award-winning columnist for KPC Media Group whose weekly column has appeared every Saturday morning for twelve years in newspapers in all four counties in northern Indiana. In 2014 Lou Ann received the Mayor’s Arts and Humanities Award.

Lou Ann’s storytelling skills have twice brought her the Frank Basile Emerging Stories Fellowship grant, and two commissioned pieces from Indiana Landmarks. She has told stories on many Fringe Festival stages throughout the Midwest and has carried her from the green hills of Ireland to China, and from Florida to Arizona. She has been on the roster of Arts for Learning for many years and was awarded the Anna Award in 2015 for her outstanding plan for program enhancement. Currently she is touring with her one-woman show of Mary Shelley, the author of "Frankenstein."

When not traveling Lou Ann can be found in her hometown of Angola, Indiana where she is a member of the Historic Preservation Commission and the Downtown Angola Coalition bringing arts to her hometown. She writes late into the night under a red frayed lamplight, gardens at the community gardens, celebrates and promotes cultural events, tell stories on the square and bikes her way around her small town!

She is delighted to bring you stories!