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The Greatest Love Letters from the Last 300 Years

Just in time for Valentine's Day, this event will bring merriment and curiosity!

Ms. Terry Antoniewicz is back to share her talents with us!

With over 5 decades of creating and examining documents, Terry is an expert on all things handwritten. The Greatest Love Letters from the Last 300 Years shows correspondence from royals, high-profile public figures and the Civil War.

Love Letters - while we may not write much on paper to share our deepest feelings so much today, we enjoy peeking into history and what it reveals of the deepest feelings of others expressed in letters and how it has influenced individuals and history itself. Love letters reveal tenderness to the fire and ice in relationships. 

Letters of royals and high-profile public figures that were kept private in their day now have an opportunity to be glimpsed by the public and reveal the deep affection couples had for one another.  The correspondence of Napoleon and Josephine uncover a very deep and passionate love to their very last breath in contrast to the very public feuding they presented to others.

Letters from loved ones during the times of war were often the number one reason morale stayed high during times of conflict, depravation and destruction, as copies from actual Civil War correspondence of the presenter’s dear friend will illuminate. 

Letters from Warren Harding reveal a passionate affair that helped form some of the US policy for WWI and other letters from children show that pure joy reminds us how simplicity can be the purest love of all.

New to this presentation will be an update of the recent findings of Marie Antoinette’s love letters to the Swedish Count that reveal information that was gallantly redacted by the count to protect the French Queen.

With a touch of history, some laughter and maybe a tear or two, find out how history was made through the contents of some of the deepest feelings written on paper.  

Ms. Antoniewicz presents programs with a passion that engage the audience immediately!

This program is also suitable for high school students. Find out which 17th Century historical figure wrote letters as if they were the teenage texts of today!

This program includes a Q & A session.

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