Past Appearances

A sampling of past appearances by speaker/author David Bowles:

  • 104th Galbreath Family Reunion, 2010
  • Radio Interview, Off the Shelf with Denise Turney
  • Speech on The Revolutionary Battle of Guilford Courthouse, Lay Family Genealogical Association
  • Guide a private tour of the hallowed ground of the Alamo, Lay Family Genealogical Association
  • San Antonio Chapter of the Sons of the American Revolution, Speech on the Battle of Guilford Courthouse, Petroleum Club
  • The Petroleum Club Book Club, San Antonio, Texas
  • Booksignings for Adam’s Daughters at The Twig@Pearl and Barnes & Noble, La  Cantera, San Antonio
  • North Collin County Genealogical Society, McKinney, Texas
  • Alamo Heights Methodist Church, Single Friends Sunday School Class
  • The San Antonio Breakfast Club, the Quarry Golf Club
  • Texas State Genealogical Society, Keynote speaker for awards banquet at 2009 Genealogy with a Mission
  • Bay Area Genealogical Society, Houston, TX
  • National Storytelling Festival, Jonesborough, TN, Booksigning at Historic Jonesborough Visitors Center
  • Radio interview: Thinking Out Loud, AM910, WJCW
  • Story: “The Lost State of Franklin”: Jonesborough Branch of the Washington County Public Library, Jonesborough TN
  • Descendants of Adam Mitchell, 2009 Reunion, Jonesborough, TN
  • Reception and Book Signing, Jonesborough Branch of the Washington County Public Library, Jonesborough TN, September 28, 2009
  • TV Interview, Daytime Tricities, LIVE, with host Morgan King, WJHL-TV, Channel 11, Johnson City, TN, September 20, 2009. Watch the video online.
  • Alamo Heroes Chapter of the Daughters of the Republic of Texas, September 1, 2009
  • 103rd Galbreath Reunion 2009, Walnut Point State Park, Oakand, IL
  • National Society of the Sons of the American Revolution, 119th Annual Congress, Atlanta, GA
  • Texas Society of the Sons of the American Revolution, 2009 Annual Convention, Nacogdoches, TX
  • Texas State Historical Association 113th Annual Meeting, Austin, TX
  • National Storytelling Festival 2008, Jonesborough, TN
  • Texas Self Storage Association 2008 Convention & Trade Show, San Antonio Convention Center: “good old-fashioned true tales from San Antonio-based storytelling legend David Bowles”
  • Bowles 2008 Family Reunion at Riverside Resort, Canyon Lake, TX
  • 102nd Galbreath Reunion near Oakland, IL
  • Grave-marking service for Revolutionary War Soldier William Galbreath at Patsy Mitchell Cemetary Ashmore, IL
  • Let Freedom Ring bell-ringing ceremony, July 4, 2008, San Antonio, TX. Introduction of keynote speaker State Senator Jeff Wentworth. See photos on David’s blog.
  • Genealogical Society of Kendall County, Boerne, TX: Writing Family History
  • Sons of the Republic of Texas, Moses Austin Chapter, Austin, TX
  • Mission Trace Book Club, San Antonio, TX: discussion of Spring House
  • Texas Authors Speak Fall Retreat, Salado, Texas
  • Daughters of the Republic of Texas’ 20th Texas History Forum, Alamo Hall, San Antonio, TX
  • Grandson Nicholas’ fourth grade class at Press Elementary in McKinney, TX. The McKinney newspaper covered the appearance and wrote a nice story with photos: A Special Kind of Show and Tell.
  • Patrick Henry Chapter of the Sons of the American Revolution, Austin, TX
  • Live radio interview with Bryan Beck, KGSR-107.1, Austin, TX
  • The 101st Galbreath/Mitchell Reunion, Oakland Miller Park, Oakland IL: Spring House and Mitchell Family history. The event was covered by the Charleston Courier. You can read the article (with photo) on the paper’s Web site: Revolutionary War author Bowles speaks to descendants of early Coles County settlers.
  • TX Society Encampment of the Descendants of Washington’s Army at Valley Forge
  • Frontiers in Writing Conference, Amarillo, TX
  • Alamo Executives Association, San Antonio, TX
  • Colonel Karen Wagner High School JROTC Department Awards Day Ceremony, May 9, 2007, San Antonio, TX representing the Sons of the American Revolution
  • “Books ‘n Authors ‘n All That Jazz V”!, Weatherford College, Weatherford, Texas
  • “Lifetimers” of Woodland Baptist Church Luncheon: “The Role of Churches in the American Revolution”
  • SAC Book Fair, San Antonio College, San Antonio, TX
  • Lights, Camera, Author!, Book and Author Dinner of the Literacy Council of Fort Bend County, Houston, TX
  • Radio interview on BOOKS n’ AUTHORS on KYQX 89.5 FM, simulcast on www.kyqx.com
  • The San Antonio Breakfast Club, San Antonio, TX,
  • Liberty Hill Library Benefit, Liberty Hill, TX
  • Boerne Chapter of the Sons of the American Revolution, Boerne, TX: “The Battle of Guilford Courthouse”
  • Booksigning, Lemuria Books, Jackson, MS
  • Research trip to Jonesborough, TN; attended a meeting of the Jonesborough Genealogical Society
  • Booksigning, Downtown Books, Corinth, MS on trip to interview descendants of Hezekiah Mitchell for Adam’s Daughters: Book 2 in the Westward Sagas
  • First solo booksigning, Twig Bookshop, San Antonio, TX
  • Single Friends Sunday School Class at Alamo Heights Methodist Church, San Antonio, TX: “The Role of Protestant Churches in the Revolutionary War.”
  • Writer Friends of the San Antonio Library Booksigning, Barnes & Noble, San Pedro Crossing, San Antonio, TX
  • 225th Observance of the Battle of Guilford Courthouse, Guilford Courthouse National Military Park, NC, the site of the battle and Adam Mitchell’s farm, as described in Spring House: Laid wreath as representative of the San Antonio Chapter of the Sons of the American Revolution
  • Seminar on the Mitchell Family, Buffalo Creek Presbyterian Church, NC, the church founded 250 years ago by Adam Mitchell’s family

Alamo Heights Methodist Church, Single Friends Sunday School Class

The San Antonio Breakfast Club, the Quarry Golf Club

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