Category Archives: Life Story People Podcasts

Meet 2016 Pre-Conference Seminar Presenter Stephanie Kadel Taras - APH7

“Kick It Up,” the 2016 conference for the Association of Personal Historians will offer a plethora of learning opportunities to help personal historians to boost their business expertise and refine their crafts. In fact, the learning starts the day before the official conference start, with two, all-day, pre-conference seminars. In this podcast, you’ll meet our second pre-conference seminar leader,… Read More »

Meet 2016 Pre-Conference Seminar Presenter Patricia Charpentier - APH6

All-day pre-conference seminars have proven to be popular offerings at APH conferences, and the 2016 APH conference in Fort Worth, Texas, will be no exception. In this podcast, you’ll meet APH member Patricia Charpentier. Patricia is the author of Eating an Elephant: Write Your Life One Bite at a Time and she’s one of two pre-conference seminar presenters for “Kick It Up,”… Read More »

Meet 2016 Conference Keynote Speaker John Philip Colletta, Ph.D.- APH5

It’s the night of March 4, 1873. And deep in the Mississippi back country, raging flames consume a store, along with the five people sleeping inside. Ninety-years later, a mention of that long-ago conflagration ignites a passion for genealogy and family history in a fourteen year-old boy—a boy who embarks on a thirty-year search to find out what led… Read More »

Meet 2016 Conference Keynote Speaker Dr. Max Krochmal - APH4

Most of us are familiar with the contributions that leaders like Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Cesar Chavez made to the civil rights and labor movements in the United States. But many lesser-known folks played important roles as well. Preserving their stories of struggle has become a passion and a mission for Dr. Max Krochmal, a keynote… Read More »

Meet 2016 Conference Keynote Speaker John Centrone - APH3

Music has played a vital role in films since the first silent movie flickered onto a screen. Today, music scores perform many valuable functions in film, TV, and personal history productions. At the 2016 Conference of the Association of Personal Historians in Fort Worth, Texas, keynote speaker and composer John Centrone will take conference attendees on an inspiring… Read More »