Author Archives: Gary Moore

I enjoyed speaking to 50 high school minority students about opportunities in agriculture this past Monday. Often minorities have negative views about agriculture and are not aware that agriculture is much more than farming. For this presentation, I identified a … Continue reading →

I enjoyed speaking at the Master Gardener College on the North Carolina State University Campus last week. The title of my presentation was Growing Plants, Growing People: Land Grant Colleges, the Extension Service, and Master Gardeners. The presentation was basically … Continue reading →

I spoke at the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) at North Carolina State University last week. As people were coming in you would think it was a “real” college class because the students were avoiding the first row of seats. … Continue reading →

It was enjoyable (and educational for me) to make a presentation to the Senior University group at Temple Beth Or in Raleigh last week. The topic of my presentation was the History and Evolution of the Outhouse. I started with … Continue reading →

Last week I spoke at the Hudson Memorial Presbyterian Church about the old-time camp meetings. What was neat was this was the first time I had made this presentation to Presbyterians. The Presbyterians were responsible for one of the most … Continue reading →

You would think making the same presentation over and over again might get boring. Yesterday I presented the History and Evolution of the Outhouse to a group at the SearStone in Cary, NC. One of the questions asked by the … Continue reading →

Did you know there were Catholic Priests who were circuit riders in the 1800s? The operated in South Texas and were known as the Cavalry of Christ. I spoke at the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at North Carolina State on … Continue reading →

It was neat to speak in a hotel where you could look out on to the playing field of the Toronto Blue Jays baseball field from the hotel restaurant. The meeting room I was speaking in didn’t look out on … Continue reading →

It was a very nice room but I knew it would be too small when I first saw it. As people drifted in, it didn’t take long to fill the room up; then people started dragging in chairs from an … Continue reading →

Exactly a year ago in January, I was speaking to the Kentucky ACTE Leadership Cohort (TALENTS) and it started snowing. Well, guess what happened this year? Same place, same time, same event (but with a new cohort) and it snowed … Continue reading →