February 8, 2024 at 6:30 pm
The presentation on “The Red River Campaign of the War Between the States” covers the broad elements of the ill-fated Federal campaign to invade Louisiana and Texas, plus some less well-known elements. In addition, Curt Locklear adds songs of the era performed on banjo and guitar.
Curt Locklear is an award-winning author, editor, Civil War and Texas historian, education consultant, and public speaker. He has presented to thousands (sometimes to thousands in one event) from Texas to Louisiana to Mississippi to Georgia to Minnesota to Maryland. He generally plays his guitar and banjo at his speaking engagements and enlivens the presentation with songs, stories, and jokes.
He has presented at the International Historical Novel Society Conference in 2019. He has presented to high school writing classes, universities, major school events with thousands of attendees, dozens of historical societies, and local television shows in Houston, and has performed on the “Austin City Limits” stage. He has presented historical and creative writing workshops at Lone Star College in Houston.
He is a board member of the Hood’s Texas Brigade Reactivated.
A teacher of history and English, he holds a Masters Degree, and is a sought-after historian. As a book editor, he has successfully guided numerous authors to publication (one author’s book became required reading at North Texas State.)
His amazing banjo picking is featured at the beginning of the hit Texas PBS TV show, “The Daytripper.” The show is viewed in other states besides Texas.
He is a much sought-after historian of various elements of Texas History and the Civil War.
He is related to the first wing-walker, Ormer Locklear. His father, Jack Locklear, trained a horse in the Kentucky Derby. As a youngster, he helped his father, who trained thoroughbred racehorses. Curt mucked horse stalls, loaded and unloaded hay bales, fed and hotwalked the horses, herded cattle, and raised sheep. He plucked chickens and stretched barbed- wire fence.
He obtained his Bachelor’s Degree in English and History from the University of Texas and a Master’s Degree from Texas State University. He had an illustrious career as a principal, teacher, and a coach in school districts north of Austin. He taught, at one time or another, grades four through twelve, directed one act plays and UIL literary events, and taught chess to students every year he was a principal.
A successful author, he has won short story awards, and his five published novels are rated 5 Stars – highest rating.ASUNDER, A NOVEL OF THE CIVIL WAR and SPLINTERED (ASUNDER 2) which took first place in the 2018 International Laramie Awards. The third novel, RECONCILED, has been hailed as a “masterpiece of storytelling.”
His highly rated fourth book is a mystery tale set in Dickens’ time. SCROOGE AND CRATCHIT, DETECTIVES.
The most recent book is THE DARK MALEVOLENCE, (A SCROOGE AND CRATCHIT, DETECTIVES MYSTERY.) It too is receiving high marks.
You can watch the exciting book trailers and other videos on his website: www.curtlocklearauthor.com and subscribe via email at curt.locklear@ yahoo.com for the newsletter which has amazing stories, essays on historical facts, contests, and more.
