Invite Sandra to Lecture or Sign Books

Sandra is available to present lecture/slide shows to your club, library, school, or organization. The standard length is one hour. Choose from one of her programs or make a special request. If your group wants it, she will probably do it.

Sandra is also available for book signings at bookstores, giftshops, or libraries. 

UPDATED! Program by Sandra Weber and David Hodges

Times of Trouoble This program presents songs and stories about Mary Day Brown, the wife of abolitionist John Brown.

Program by Sandra Weber and Peggy Lynn

Mountain Women Can Be Heroes This program presents songs and stories of remarkable Adirondackers. Some examples of the women whose comical, amazing or poignant experiences they celebrate: Mother Johnson---famous for her hospitality and huge, mouth-watering stacks of pancakes The Arnolds---isolated pioneer women, farmers, and independent, fearless bareback horse riders Grace Hudowalski---first woman to climb all 46 Adirondack high peaks Inez Milholland---activist who led suffragist parades on a huge, white horse Kate Field---lecturer and journalist who encouraged 19th-century women to take to the woods

Mount Marcy, the Highest Peak in New York

Using slides, poetry, and quotations to enhance her narrative, Sandra tells the story of New York's high spot. 

Gifford Pinchot: Walrus of the Forest

Gifford Pinchot was the father of forestry management in America, the first Chief of the U. S. Forest Service, and a two-term Governor of Pennsylvania. This lecture discusses how Pinchot came to be a forester and a major promoter of the conservation movement. It also presents the personal side of Pinchot, from his days as a teenager casting his first fishing rod to an icy ascent of a mountain peak to wrestling matches with Theodore Roosevelt.

Henry Van Hoevenberg: His Triumphs, Tragedies, and Legacies

The builder and owner of the original Adirondack Lodge was a successful inventor, woodsman, storyteller, trailbuilder, and hotel host. He also faced some failures--bankruptcy, death of his loved one, and destruction of the lodge in the fire of 1903. The legacies of "Mr. Van" live on through the many activities still happening on the shores of Heart Lake.

Sandra shares stories she has discovered during her three years of research about Henry Van Hoevenberg. She adds new details to some of the old stories and tells a few tales of her own.

The History of Esther Mountain

Esther Mountain has been used for lumbering and charcoal operations, a ski center, a mountain highway, a scientific research center, and a home for Santa. It owns the distinct honor of being the only of the forty-six high peaks to be named for a woman. The legend says that fifteen-year-old Esther McComb was the first person to climb the mountain.

In her lecture, Sandra shows slides of many fascinating locations on  the mountain. She then traces the first climb of the mountain made by Esther in 1839 and recounts two subsequent climbs made in 1939 and 1995 to commemorate the girl who climbed "for the sheer joy of climbing."
 

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