by Tom DeWolf | Apr 8, 2011 | Appearances by Tom
You might think that linking myself to famed spiritual author and speaker Deepak Chopra, Apollo 14 Astronaut Edgar Mitchell in the title of this post is intended as an “attention-getter” and you would be correct. It’s also accurate and I hope...
by Tom DeWolf | Mar 21, 2011 | Appearances by Tom, Traces of the Trade
(UPDATE: Click here for photos from the post-screening discussion at the U.N. — I was glad to see that roughly 300 people were estimated to be in attendance.) Traces of the Trade: A Story from the Deep North will be featured during the 2011 week of...
by Tom DeWolf | Mar 8, 2011 | Appearances by Tom, History, Genealogy
On May 30, 1921, a black man named Dick Rowland entered an elevator operated by a white woman, Sarah Page, in the Drexel Building in Tulsa, Oklahoma. What happened next is known only to Rowland and Page. One version is that the elevator jerked, and they stumbled into...
by Tom DeWolf | Feb 19, 2011 | Appearances by Tom
I’m often asked if I ever encounter people–black or white–at the presentations I give that express anger at me in reaction to the message I share. Do black people demand “reparations” due to the slave-traders in my family’s distant...
by Tom DeWolf | Feb 11, 2011 | Appearances by Tom
Anyone who travels a lot has surely experienced travel travails. It’s a good thing I rather enjoy traveling–for the most part. Winter offers the most challenges. Take the past few weeks for instance… My wife Lindi, my writing partner Sharon Morgan,...
by Tom DeWolf | Nov 18, 2010 | Appearances by Tom, History, Genealogy
John Parker. Margaret Garner. Robert Smalls. John Rankin. They are not among the most well-known of historic figures yet their impact was profound for those whose lives they touched. I spoke recently at The College of Mount St. Joseph in Cincinnati, Ohio. Larisa...
