Martha Hannah

Nationally Acclaimed Comedic Character Actor, Author, Speaker, Educator and Arts-In-Education Advocate Martha Hannah has story performance and joke telling in her blood. “I come from a long line of characters that were long-winded and funny,” she says. Martha‘s deep, rich heritage is from a large Scotch-Irish clan that came to America in the early 1700’s and settled in Tennessee. “I was blessed with my grandmother, Mama Roxie, who had a grand sense of the lyrical and dramatic telling of an event. She was a natural comedienne. My father has always had a delicious compulsion to tease and tell jokes. His mother, Nanny, early on introduced me to a fascination with ghost stories and a belief in the unseen.”

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Larry Dowell

Ever since he was a child growing up in Kentucky, Larry Dowell has loved art and the written word. He started drawing and painting as soon as he could hold a pencil and brush. He was writing funny limericks by the age of six. Those long Sunday afternoons when the family visited the elderly aunts, adults sitting down to talk and kids going outside to play, he would seek out the room that held the tall Victorian bookcases; the dusty books were the treasures at the end of his treasure hunt.

Larry’s poetry was published in anthologies when he was in high school and he began selling his paintings when he started college. He studied Art, Education and English at Western Kentucky University and received an Associate’s Degree in Graphic Design at the Harris School of Design.

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Rose Williams

A longtime Latin teacher, Rose Williams holds degrees from Baylor University and the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, with post graduate work in Latin and the Humanities at the University of Dallas and the University of Texas at Arlington. On a Rockefeller grant she did research at Bodleian Library of Oxford University in England and at the University of Pisa. She has taught Latin at high school and university level. She is the author of many acclaimed Classics textbooks and teaching guides as well as humorous books of Latin phrases. She serves on various classics consultant boards and maintains a website, www.roserwilliams.com, devoted to Latin teaching materials.

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