How to Order the Book and Contact the Author

A Rare Titanic Family is available at your favorite bookstore or on-line retailer.

To order A Rare Titanic Family directly from the publisher, click here.

You may contact me on Facebook at the page titled "A Rare Titanic Family," you may contact me via my publisher, NewSouth Books, info@newsouthbooks.com, or 334-834-3556. I'm on e-mail at joldnews@bellsouth.net

I spoke in many states about Wings of Opportunity and am available to speak about A Rare Titanic Family as well. I truly love telling history -- the truth makes a most fascinating story indeed. I would love to tell the Titanic story (or the Wright Brothers story) to your group. I have fully developed, optional PowerPoint presentation that can be tailored to run between 30 minutes to 45 minutes, depending on your needs. I also have a 55-minute one-woman show, where I "become" Sylvia Caldwell and tell the story as though it's still 1912. All shows are entertaining. I've had a BLAST developing the performance!

My Three Not-So-Ordinary Joes show is great fun involving audience taking parts in simple skits. It takes about 50 minutes.

I also speak in Carrie Ingalls' Little Newspapers on the Prairie. This show was developed during the pandemic, so I can easily do it on line in about 30 minutes. I can also speak about Carrie in person!

ABOUT THE AUTHOR:

I'm Julie Hedgepeth Williams. Albert Caldwell married my great-aunt Jennie in 1936, and I heard his Titanic story often -- he loved to talk about it. I was so captivated by his story that I majored in History and English at Principia College. After working as a journalist in Clinton, NC, I got a Master's and PhD, both focusing on Media History, from University of Alabama. I am past president of the American Journalism Historians Association. I teach journalism at Samford University and have also taught journalism at University of Alabama.

I also wrote The Significance of the Printed Word in Early America: Colonists' Thoughts on the Role of the Press. The Significance of the Printed Word was published by Greenwood Press.