If you need a guest speaker for your school or business function in the Cincinnati area, consider Allen Singer.

Topics of expertise include:

• Local transportation history
• Cincinnati history
• How a fiction or nonfiction book gets written and into a bookstore.
• The growth of recorded music, including discussion of 78 RPM Record.

Teachers in elementary school and high school: introduce young people to the magic of history, writing and recorded music, explained in terms they will understand.

• Are you studying the growth of mass transportation? Allen Singer will speak to any class: first grade to high school about the development of mass transportation in Cincinnati, and discuss the story of the subway.

• Make your discussions of Cincinnati history come alive. Invite Allen Singer to speak about the Queen City’s remarkable past.

• Let a published author speak to your class about what it takes to research and write a fiction or nonfiction book. Allen Singer will speak to your group about publishing in our modern world.

• If you’re studying the history of recorded music,
Allen Singer will enthusiastically explain the
development of cylinder records to today’s mp3.
Music recorded on the 78 RPM record is
demonstrated with a vintage portable Victrola
and assortment of records from 1910 to 1950.

• And speaking of the history of recorded music, Allen Singer will dazzle your group about the development of mechanical music such as player pianos and music boxes.

Professional groups, organizations, corporations:

Need someone to speak to your group about Cincinnati history, or the story behind the subway? Contact Allen Singer. He’ll tell your group all about the politics and the intense planning that went into the creation of Cincinnati’s big “white elephant,” and what happened to it after the project failed.

Allen J. Singer is a local historian, author of The Cincinnati Subway, and antique music aficionado. In addition to visiting schools and discussing history, he works as a writer for his freelance copywriting company, Allen’s Edge. Contact him today if you need an enthusiastic speaker for your next class or function. Email him at allensedge@yahoo.com.

Read about what people have said about talks given by Allen Singer on the Testimonials page.