At middle age I decided to finish my college degree, which I had
started 25 years earlier. I love history and literature and threw myself into
it, graduating magna cum laude from the College of Charleston in 2000 with
an A.B. Degree in History.
I did a bachelor's essay for History Departmental
Honors entitled
Economic Arguments and Justifications for Southern Secession,
1850s to 1861. I won the
Outstanding Student Award for the College of Charleston History Department in
2000 as well as History Departmental Honors, and the year before won the American History Award sponsored by the Rebecca Motte
Chapter of the National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution. I
have 15 hours toward a masters in English from the University of Charleston.
I am divorced. I have two GREAT boys from
a previous marriage, Trey and Travis, 22 and 17, who are exactly like me (love
the South, love sports, especially running). The three of us have a long string
of Cooper River Bridge Runs (10K, 6.2 miles) to our credit and this year (2010)
we ran our 15th in a row! I started Travis when he was two-years-old and
registered as an official runner on my shoulders the whole way. We were
featured in the 2005 Bridge Run magazine for our then 10-in-a-row streak. Even though I run four or
five times a week, BOTH boys
have been beating me for years in the Bridge Run and I'm damn proud of it!
I am pursuing the production of video for DVDs on fascinating topics of Southern history and literature. If you have
an interesting lecture or music program you have made, please let me know
because I might be able to turn it into a DVD that will benefit
lovers of Southern history all over the world. I can not pay a royalty, but if
you want to get your talk or program produced and on DVD, please write and let's discuss it.
The best way to contact me is by e-mail at
BonnieBlueStaff@comcast.net. My mailing address is
P.O. Box 13012, Charleston, S.C. 29422-3012.
Please
Click
Here for additional information including some of my writing clips.
And please visit my real estate website,
www.CharlestonSaltwaterRealty.com, and World History 101 and 102, which I
produced with distinguished professor
Dr. Clark G. Reynolds. It's an outstanding 80 DVD set, two actual college
classes covering prehistory to present:
www.WorldHistory101-102.com.
Hope to hear from you soon!
Gene Kizer
