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Tim Hartman
Jul 13, 20172 min read
Discounted Assemblies for the fall!! (or start your school year off with a bang.)
The beginning of the school year is a perfect time for an assembly program that will start your children out on the right foot. The calls...
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Tim Hartman
Jul 7, 20171 min read
Gettysburg Battle portrait poster is now available!
The poster contains 143 historical pen and ink portraits drawn by artist Tim Hartman for the new book from Savas Beatie Publishing:...
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Tim Hartman
Jul 6, 20171 min read
What exactly does comedy storytelling look like?
It's the question I have to answer the most from people who are interested in having me do a performance. If I'm not telling a...
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Tim Hartman
Jun 19, 20171 min read
A classic story, but NOT the good guy.
Can we learn anything from a character that behaves poorly? I often portray terrible people in both my storytelling and plays. The...
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Tim Hartman
May 26, 20173 min read
In other words.....
Yesterday, May 25, I did a performance for a large group of 6th graders at a school south of Pittsburgh called Neil Armstrong Middle...
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Tim Hartman
May 20, 20171 min read
Audiences of many kinds..
Just this last week, alone, I have performed for a group of pre-schoolers, a group of senior citizens who donate their time as tutors,...
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Tim Hartman
May 10, 20172 min read
Sometimes I don't have to do a thing!
Recently I was performing at a 'Book Festival' in Youngstown, OH. I really enjoy these kinds of venues. Usually, when I perform, it's for...
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Tim Hartman
May 2, 20171 min read
Two schools: Too much fun!
Last Friday I spent the day at a couple of elementary schools in the Elizabeth Forward School District. I'm not sure I've ever laughed as...
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Tim Hartman
Apr 25, 20171 min read
Youngstown's Children's Book Festival
Saturday, April 29th, I'll be performing for the fourth time at the Youngstown Children's Book Festival. It's a lovely park and an...
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Tim Hartman
Apr 17, 20174 min read
Toothless
(First Grade class picture. I'm in the second row down, third from the left.) When I was three, my family went to visit a friend of my...
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Tim Hartman
Apr 12, 20171 min read
'Can we stay inside and write a story?'
Yesterday I performed my 'Construct-a-tale' assembly for 3 grade levels at Mountain Ridge Intermediate School in Gerrardstown, WV. The...
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Tim Hartman
Apr 11, 20174 min read
The teacher.
When I worked in New York, I lived in a one-room apartment in the basement of a four-story house in an area of New Jersey called...
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Tim Hartman
Apr 4, 20173 min read
The Miracle Fruit.
I found this other picture from my show at Elizabeth Forward Middle School on my phone. There is a teacher in a khaki shirt with his hand...
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Tim Hartman
Mar 30, 20172 min read
Twenty years and counting....
For the last 20 or so years, Elizabeth Forward Middle School has been sending its 6th graders to 'A Musical Christmas Carol'. (A show I...
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Tim Hartman
Mar 28, 20172 min read
Self promotion is the worst
Every time I have to do a blog or promote myself someway, I become very uncomfortable. I really wish I didn't have to do it. I grew up...
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Tim Hartman
Mar 25, 20171 min read
The cover illustration.
You might have noticed I use this illustration a lot in my storytelling materials. It was drawn in 2005 for the cover of Storytelling...
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Tim Hartman
Mar 21, 20171 min read
Fort Ligonier Storytellers
I'm often asked to talk to groups about storytelling. Today I was at Fort Ligonier, Pa. Not only do I love the town of Ligonier, because...
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Tim Hartman
Mar 18, 20172 min read
When I perform for children.....
It might seem an obvious point, but when I perform for children, I perform for children. I know! It sounds too simple, but children, in...
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Tim Hartman
Mar 17, 20171 min read
Discovering Gettysburg
'Discovering Gettysburg' is a book my friend Stephen Coleman and I have been working on for several years. Stephen came to me with the...
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Tim Hartman
Mar 15, 20171 min read
McQuistion Elementary in Butler, PA
Today I did 2 performances of 'Folktrails' at McQuistion. I love this show, because it goes from the ridiculous to the dramatic. I make...
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