5/18/13
Mystic Seafarer's Trail: Meet Mystic Seafarer's Trail Author and Hound Toda...
Mystic Seafarer's Trail: Meet Mystic Seafarer's Trail Author and Hound Toda...: Saturday, May 18, 9a.m. – Noon Mystic Seafarer’s Trail book signing West Marine Mystic 14 B Clara Dr, Mystic, CT 06355. More info:...
4/17/13
Find Adventure Following the Mystic Seafarer's Trail
Author Designs Mystic Seafarer’s Trail
Map
To Give Tourists an Easy-to-Follow Itinerary
Mystic, CT—Lisa Saunders, the
author of the recently released book, Mystic Seafarer’s Trail, has designed a free
trail map to hand out to tourists.
Available on her website and at some
local businesses, tourists following the trail map will be sure to walk, bike
or drive past historic tall ships, "The 7 Wonders of Mystic," and the
haunts and homes of famous adventurers--living and dead--including the
discoverers of the Titanic and Antarctica plus Amelia Earhart. Along the
route, visitors will find places to shop or grab a bite, bike, boat ride or
kayak.
Saunders of Mystic said, “Ever since I moved to Mystic three years ago, visitors stop me to ask where they should eat or what they should do. They assume I'm resident because I'm walking a dog. Wanting to learn more about Mystic myself when I moved here in the summer of 2010, with the help of locals, I found ‘The 7 Wonders of Mystic,’ tried several adventures--plus a few misadventures--and chronicled them for inclusion in my latest book, Mystic Seafarer's Trail. During my research, which included interviews with bridge tenders and historians plus flipping through dusty old files, I uncovered the secrets behind Amelia Earhart's wedding in nearby Noank, Captain Sisson's ill-fated search for gold during the clipper ship era, and the stories revealed by the shoes found at Titanic's watery grave.”
Saunders of Mystic said, “Ever since I moved to Mystic three years ago, visitors stop me to ask where they should eat or what they should do. They assume I'm resident because I'm walking a dog. Wanting to learn more about Mystic myself when I moved here in the summer of 2010, with the help of locals, I found ‘The 7 Wonders of Mystic,’ tried several adventures--plus a few misadventures--and chronicled them for inclusion in my latest book, Mystic Seafarer's Trail. During my research, which included interviews with bridge tenders and historians plus flipping through dusty old files, I uncovered the secrets behind Amelia Earhart's wedding in nearby Noank, Captain Sisson's ill-fated search for gold during the clipper ship era, and the stories revealed by the shoes found at Titanic's watery grave.”
Upon discovering the route one should follow for the best views and adventures,
Saunders now quickly advises visitors who hold up traffic on Route 1 to shout
questions to her by handing them her Mystic Seafarer’s Trail map*. Figuring
tourists might find the map online before coming to the Mystic area, she included
Amtrak train and Peter Pan bus stops along with how to find information on
accommodations, restaurants, points of interest and events. To download a copy
of the map, visit www.mysticseafarerstrail.com or download: http://www.mysticseafarerstrail.com/files/67073740.pdf.
To learn more about the book, Mystic Seafarer’s Trail,, Saunders will be presenting the story and autographing copies at the following events:
Saturday, April 27, 1pm
Monte Cristo Bookshop
13 Washington Street
New London CT 06320
More info: (860)574-9056
Saturday, May 4, 10-1 pm
Bank Square Books
53 W. Main Street Mystic, CT 06355
More Info: (860) 536 - 3795
Saturday, May 18, 9a.m. - Noon
West Marine Mystic
14 B Clara Dr Mystic, CT 6355
More info: (860) 536-1455
Thurs, June 20, 6:30 p.m.
Local Authors @ The Groton Senior Center
"Amelia Earhart and the Mystic Seafarer's Trail."
To learn more about the book, Mystic Seafarer’s Trail,, Saunders will be presenting the story and autographing copies at the following events:
Saturday, April 27, 1pm
Monte Cristo Bookshop
13 Washington Street
New London CT 06320
More info: (860)574-9056
Saturday, May 4, 10-1 pm
Bank Square Books
53 W. Main Street Mystic, CT 06355
More Info: (860) 536 - 3795
Saturday, May 18, 9a.m. - Noon
West Marine Mystic
14 B Clara Dr Mystic, CT 6355
More info: (860) 536-1455
Thurs, June 20, 6:30 p.m.
Local Authors @ The Groton Senior Center
"Amelia Earhart and the Mystic Seafarer's Trail."
Groton
Senior Center
102 Newtown Rd
Groton, CT 06340
More info: 860-441-6750
102 Newtown Rd
Groton, CT 06340
More info: 860-441-6750
*According to Lisa Saunders, she designed the Mystic Seafarer’s
Trail map using, with permission, maps from the book, Landmarks You Must
Visit in Southeast Connecticut, by Constant Waterman.
About Mystic Seafarer’s Trail: While searching for the Seven Wonders of Mystic with her beagle/basset hound, author Lisa Saunders uncovers the secrets behind the Titanic's shoes, Captain Sisson's hunt for gold, and Amelia Earhart's Noank wedding. But will she ever find an adventure of her own--one that will make her thin and famous? Enough to afford a housekeeper? When walking the Mystic Seafarer's Trail (which Lisa designed for those who don't like to go uphill), she meets a blind sailor who invites her on a long, winter voyage. Can this plump writer defy squalls, scurvy, and her fear of scraping barnacles to survive this epic journey? Available in soft cover and e-book, the “LOOK INSIDE!” reveals the first few chapters.
About Mystic Seafarer’s Trail: While searching for the Seven Wonders of Mystic with her beagle/basset hound, author Lisa Saunders uncovers the secrets behind the Titanic's shoes, Captain Sisson's hunt for gold, and Amelia Earhart's Noank wedding. But will she ever find an adventure of her own--one that will make her thin and famous? Enough to afford a housekeeper? When walking the Mystic Seafarer's Trail (which Lisa designed for those who don't like to go uphill), she meets a blind sailor who invites her on a long, winter voyage. Can this plump writer defy squalls, scurvy, and her fear of scraping barnacles to survive this epic journey? Available in soft cover and e-book, the “LOOK INSIDE!” reveals the first few chapters.
About the Author: Lisa
Saunders is an award-winning writer living in Mystic, Connecticut, with her
husband and beagle/basset hound. A graduate of Cornell University, she is the
author of several books and works as a part-time history interpreter at Mystic
Seaport. She is a member of the Mystic River Historical Society, Daughters of
the American Revolution (Anna Warner Bailey Chapter), and is the parent
representative for the Congenital CMV Foundation. More info: www.authorlisasaunders.com, saundersbooks@aol.com
3/6/13
The Lisa Saunders TV Talk Show
The Lisa Saunders Show
Community Television for Groton, Ledyard, Mystic,
Stonington, North Stonington, and Voluntown
CHANNEL 12
The Lisa Saunders show airs on Wednesdays, 8 p.m. and Lisa uploads it to Youtube*
Videographers: Suzanne Doukas Niermeyer and Suzanne Janso
The Lisa Saunders Show informs, entertains and introduces viewers to people who make their community a better or more interesting place to live.
Southeastern Connecticut Television Studios
www.sec-tv.org
80 Plaza Court
Groton, CT 06340
Studio Phone: 860-449-1477
email: info@sec-tv.org
Located in the Groton Shopping Plaza between the Groton Post Office and Benny's
Frank Facchini,ffacchini@sec-tv.org
Frank Fulchiero, ffulchiero@sec-tv.org
Phone number for call-in shows: 860-445-7499.
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TIPS FOR
APPEARING ON TV:
Clothing:
Solid, darker colors seem to look best. Avoid wearing a lot of
shiny jewelry.
Hair: make
sure your style does not hide your face--especially if the camera shoots you
from the side.
Makeup: Wear
what you normally would, but remember that the bright lights may make you
looked washed out. Lipstick and eyeliner might help!
Material:
Bring list of topics you can discuss, five questions you can be
asked, and a few props if possible.
Prior to
your appearance, send in:
1. Your name
with any title or occupation: (include a website or phone number/e-mail if
you would like that posted on the T.V. screen.
Sample:
Lisa
Saunders, author & speaker
www.authorlisasaunders.com
www.saundersbooks@aol.com
2. What
you would like to be called on the television program: Sample: Lisa
3. Address,
email, phone (for studio use, not public):
4. One
paragraph bio and a few possible questions to be asked. Sample:
Lisa Saunders is an award-winning writer living in Mystic, Connecticut, with her husband. A graduate of Cornell University, she is the author of several books and freelances as a publicist and workshop facilitator. She is a part-time history interpreter at Mystic Seaport and a field agent for National Field Service Corporation, and is the parent representative of the Congenital CMV Foundation working with healthcare professionals and politicians to prevent the #1 viral cause of birth defects. Visit Lisa at: www.AuthorLisaSaunders.com
If you have less than 8 or so "slides," they can be imported into the switcher, and then the camera can switch to them when referenced.They would need to be already arranged in the right order and numbered.
The studio would need those by 11 am that day, Wednesday (along with the way your want your name, title and contact info to appear on the screen). The slides should be emailed as JPEGs, with a resolution of at least 1024x768, a fairly common one for output or input into PowerPoint.With the slides in the switcher, the film crew would need some kind of verbal "cue" to put up the right slide, and when to take it off. Sample comments on the air would be: "now show slide 1" and "that's good.. " (which would mean the camera can come back on you). You can also go back and say "let's go back to slide 3" etc…
*Sample
Shows Uploads:
Lisa Saunders Show: Emergency Coordination, Northeast Utilitieswritten and performed by Connie Howard
See Connie’s interview, which includes performance:
Public Access Studio Listing
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2/11/13
FREE e-booklet: Surviving Loss--The Woodcutter's Tale
This full color booklet is ideal for individuals who have experienced a loss and provides professionals a useful method to assist the bereaved. It includes a grandfather’s touching fairytale that has the ability to soothe the aching hearts of children and adults as it reveals the process of healing after the death of a loved one. The afterword, written by Julie Russell, LCSW, seeks to help individuals understand the grieving process and to return to a life with purpose and meaning.
Lisa Saunders, the author of Surviving Loss: The Woodcutter’s tale, discusses the ways in which she is trying to move forward to honor the memory of her deceased daughter.
Surviving Loss: The Woodcutter's Tale may be used by readers to begin to speak of their own losses, whether by discussing the fairytale,identifying with the author’s experience finding purpose, or in the portion on understanding and coping with the natural process of grief.
This poignant combination provides a message of hope and is a tool for healing.
FREE e-book available at: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/283862
Softcover booklet available: http://www.amazon.com/Surviving-Loss-Woodcutters-Lisa-Saunders/dp/1482315505/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1360589786&sr=1-1&keywords=surviving+loss%3A+the+woodcutter%27s+tale
2/6/13
Amelia Earhart’s Wedding Anniversary February 7th
Amelia Earhart’s Wedding Anniversary February 7th
Earhart married Putnam in 1931 in Noank,
Connecticut
Mystic, CT— Mystic
Seafarer’s Trail, the latest
book by Mystic author, Lisa Saunders, includes little-known details
about Amelia Earhart’s wedding in Noank, Connecticut, on February 7, 1931.
Saunders’ research included interviewing the grandson of the judge who
performed the ceremony.
Most accounts of Amelia Earhart's life
barely mention her wedding, except to say she got married—reluctantly. The 2009
movie "Amelia," starring Hilary Swank, shows her getting married
outside, despite the early February date.
Excerpt from Mystic Seafarer’s Trail:
Mary Anderson, Curator of the Noank Historical Society, confirmed what my breakfast companion Barbara told me—that Earhart was secretly married in a simple civil ceremony in the square, flat-roofed house I found on Church Street. Learning I was including this information in a book about the area, Mary said, "You tell everybody that the wedding scene portrayed in the movie [Amelia] is inaccurate. My husband's grandfather, the Groton probate judge, performed the ceremony, and my father-in-law, Robert Anderson, a young Noank lawyer at the time, attended as a witness. When the judge congratulated her after the ceremony, calling her Mrs. Putnam, she replied, 'Please sir, I prefer Miss Earhart.'"
Excerpt from Mystic Seafarer’s Trail:
Mary Anderson, Curator of the Noank Historical Society, confirmed what my breakfast companion Barbara told me—that Earhart was secretly married in a simple civil ceremony in the square, flat-roofed house I found on Church Street. Learning I was including this information in a book about the area, Mary said, "You tell everybody that the wedding scene portrayed in the movie [Amelia] is inaccurate. My husband's grandfather, the Groton probate judge, performed the ceremony, and my father-in-law, Robert Anderson, a young Noank lawyer at the time, attended as a witness. When the judge congratulated her after the ceremony, calling her Mrs. Putnam, she replied, 'Please sir, I prefer Miss Earhart.'"
About the Author:
Lisa Saunders is a speaker and award-winning writer living in Mystic,
Connecticut, with her husband and beagle/basset hound. A graduate of Cornell
University, she works as a part-time history interpreter at Mystic Seaport and
is a member of the Mystic River Historical Society. Her other books include EVER
TRUE: A Union Private and His Wife (published by Heritage
Books) and Anything But a Dog! The perfect pet for a girl with congenital
CMV (published by Unlimited Publishing LLC).
For more information about Lisa,
visit www.authorlisasaunders.com
or write to saundersbooks@aol.com
Mystic
Seafarer’s Trail is available as a soft cover in Mystic area shops
and as an e-book through: www.amazon.com/author/lisasaunders (Media may contact Saunders directly for a review
copy.)
Book Details:
Subtitle: Secrets behind the 7 Wonders, Titanic's
Shoes, Captain Sisson's Gold, and Amelia Earhart's Wedding
Authored by
Lisa Saunders
Publisher:
CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform (October 29, 2012)
Softcover Price:
$ 12.95
ISBN-13:
978-1480085848; ISBN-10: 1480085847
2/2/13
FREE today-Feb 4: Mystic Seafarer's Trail
If you don't want to down load it, you can read Chapter One and Two by clicking on the “LOOK INSIDE” feature, or you can read Chapter One below:
1 Wanted:
Epic Adventure
Shortly after stepping out of my new home with my hound
for our first stroll through the historic seacoast village of Mystic,
Connecticut, a woman pulled over in her van and yelled, "Excuse me."
Assuming
she was a tourist wanting directions to Mystic Pizza or some other attraction, I wasn't prepared
for what she really wanted to know.
"Do you realize the back of your skirt is tucked into
your underwear?"
What a debut in my new hometown—I don’t think this is
what National Geographic meant when they named Mystic one of the top 100
adventure towns in the United States.
Once recovered from my wardrobe “malfunction,” I
continued toward downtown Mystic with Bailey, a beagle/basset hound mix, to
embark on a new life and shake off my old, sedentary landlubbing ways.
No longer did I want to be known as the lady who always
talks about losing weight but never does it. No longer would I sit around
daydreaming about becoming thin and famous so I could hire someone else to clean
my house. I had a real shot at it now that I lived in a place where I couldn’t
help but fall into a swash-buckling adventure—the kind that might inspire me to
write a bestseller.
Straddling both sides of the Mystic River in the towns
of Groton and Stonington, the village of Mystic takes its name from an Indian
word, “river running to the sea.” With its scenic views of tall ships, islands,
lighthouses, and secluded coves, it has attracted such legendary honeymooners as
Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall. It is a place where those who cross the
oceans gather to swap stories and repair their boats. It is where famous
explorers are born, visit, get married, or come to live.
To
launch my career as an adventuress, I decided to walk Bailey to the haunts and
homes of such celebrated adventurers as Amelia Earhart,
the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic; Dr.
Robert Ballard,
the discoverer of Titanic’s
watery
grave; Rear Admiral Richard E. Byrd, the first aviator to fly over the South Pole;
and Captain Nathaniel B. Palmer,
who accidentally discovered Antarctica.
Now
was the time for me to join their ranks, to start living life on the edge. Maybe
I could become thin and famous like Amelia Earhart.
Like her, I am fairly tall, my middle initial is M, I have a gap between my two
front teeth, and until I looked it up, I couldn’t spell medieval either (more on
that and her wedding day later). Unlike Amelia, I wasn’t skinny, but that was
about to change. I would stop lying around reading about adventurers and do what
it took to become one.
My husband, Jim, and I were transferred to the Mystic
area by his company, which meant I had to quit my job as a full-time writer for
a college and search for a new one in a community revolving around life at
sea—not easy for a confirmed desk sitter like me. Finding the area already
teeming with underemployed writers and publicists, I was grateful when my former
employer hired me back as a consulting writer. Although freelancing allowed me
to work from home in my pajamas, it offered no retirement benefits—hence the
need to become famous. Being famous not only helps pay the bills, but it gives
you an edge when trying to accomplish other
goals.
Now
was the time for me to follow in the path of prominent authors such as Herman
Melville who went to sea on a whaler (a ship designed to catch whales and
process their oil) when he couldn't find a job. Although he deserted and had to
live among cannibals for a time, he found the inspiration to write his first
novel. Further sea adventures, which included mutiny and hearing about a whale
that rammed and sank the Essex, led to the creation of his magnum opus:
Moby Dick.
I, myself, could barely get through this “Great American Novel,” but somebody
must like it. And now that I lived within walking distance of the Charles W.
Morgan,
the last wooden whaleship in the world, I felt that was a sign. Perhaps I could
enlist on it as a deck swabber on some epic voyage. The house we purchased came
with a brass, whale-shaped door knocker. That had to be a
sign.
If following in the footsteps of a whaling writer
didn’t work, there was always the chance I could get famous by finding a dead
body—just like Bailey and our older daughter had. Although it didn’t make her
into an international celebrity, I use it as a party stopper whenever I want to
be the center of attention. Of course, I should really find my own body,
preferably of a well-known person. Celebrities are always coming to Mystic to
film movies or vacation.
Since I couldn’t count on finding a dead body, famous
or otherwise, I decided to start small. First, I planned to compile “The 7
Wonders of Mystic”—something quick I could shout to the tourists who rolled down
their car windows asking what they should see (besides my underwear).
National
Geographic’s website
suggests that Mystic adventurers bike what it calls the 25-mile Vineyard Loop
that includes “some hairy climbs that stops at two of the best wineries.” Hairy
climbs? I hoped to get thin, but did I have to go uphill to do it? I thought
not.
Instead, I would conquer a trail of my own design—one
that would avoid hills where possible—and call it the “Mystic Seafarer’s Trail.”
It would include “The 7 Wonders” (once I figured out what they were), plus the
stomping grounds of legendary explorers. It would encompass the Mystic,
Stonington and Noank area and even include where Kate the acupuncturist weighed
her newborn on a lobster scale after giving birth on a schooner and rowing to
shore.
With so many potential wonders to consider and
adventures to try, I had a lot of ground—and water—to cover. So, every
afternoon, I checked my skirt and off Bailey and I went to follow a scent of our
own.
Read Chapter Two by
clicking on the “LOOK INSIDE” feature of the Mystic Seafarer’s Trail at:
http://www.amazon.com/Mystic-Seafarers-Trail-Titanics-ebook/dp/B00A3RX85E
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