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To learn more about these programs, to see imagery related to them and to hear a pod cast please, visit LaurieNienhaus.com.

You can also email Laurie at editor@GLily.com
or call 239-463-1079.

  • 2012 Schedule
  • Programs
Tea & Trends
The Thrill of the Chill

January 9
Naples, Florida
The Big World of Chocolate
Shell Point
January 19
Fort Myers, FL
The Thrill of the Chill
The Burroughs Home & Garden
January 22
Fort Myers, FL
Hawaiian Grown Tea: A Tasting
The Burroughs Home & Garden
January 31
Fort Myers, FL
The Lavender Tea
The Burroughs Home & Garden
February 7
Fort Myers, FL
For Dark Chocolate Lovers Only
The Burroughs Home & Garden
February 14
Fort Myers, FL
For Dark Chocolate Lovers Only
Tavares Library
February 19
Tavares, FL
The Big World of Chocolate
The Burroughs Home & Garden

February 21
Fort Myers, FL
For Dark Chocolate Lovers Only
Cinnamon Cove
February 22
Bonita Springs, FL
Remembering Miss Millay
The Burroughs Home & Garden

February 28
Fort Myers, FL
For Dark Chocolate Lovers Only
Burroughs Home & Garden
February 24
Fort Myers, FL
Mr. President, How Long Must Women Wait?
The Burroughs Home & Garden
March 6
Fort Myers, FL
The Silliness of Vintage Fashion: What Were They Thinking!
The Burroughs Home & Garden
March 8
Estero, FL
The Stories My Clothing Can Tell
Bonita Springs Library
March 14
Bonita Springs, FL
Aprons: Tracing Our Heritage
The Burroughs Home & Garden
March 15
Fort Myers, FL
Bagology
The Burroughs Home & Garden
March 22
Naples, FL
Mr. President, How Long Must Women Wait?
Lakes Regional Library
April 1
Fort Myers, FL
The Fairy Lovely Afternoon
The Burroughs Home & Garden
April 1
Tavares, FL
Victorian Fairy Painting
The Burroughs Home & Garden
April 3
Fort Myers, FL
How On Earth Did Tea
Make It This Far?
The Burroughs Home & Garden
April 10
Fort Myers, FL

Edna St. Vincent Millay Image
Remembering Miss Millay

A presentation for the passionate among us! Learn of the life and loves of Edna St. Vincent Millay, the icon of the 1920’s jazz babies and the first woman to win a Pulitzer Prize for poetry. Interspersed throughout the presentation are dramatic readings of her poetry.


 

Mr. President, How Long Suffrage Pin Must Women Wait?

Considered a radical suffragist, Alice Paul and her National Women’s Party picketed the White House and organized hunger strikes when thrown into jail. This program is both an amusing and dramatic look at the tactics and strategies of the daring and charismatic woman who organized the first examples of civil disobedience in our country. Was she more radical than the British Suffragettes? We’ll leave you to decide that!

Spilled TeacupHow on Earth Did Tea Make It This Far?

While tea has been hailed as the elixir of immortality, it’s also been served as a vegetable, "encouraged" with raw eggs, and considered the villainous ruin of the British race. Learn of tea’s perilous - and amusing - journey through time.
Over a Cuppa
Stacked Teacups
Does the spoon go in front of or behind the cup? Is white tea really white? And what is an elevenses? These are a few of the questions answered in a lively talk designed to help us celebrate the glories, as well as the latest trends, of a fine cup of tea. If desired, guests are served tea - brought by Laurie Nienhaus - after the presentation.
Oriental TeacupGetting Acquainted with
the Burgundy of Teas

Keemun tea, known as the Burgandy of Teas, is considered to be one of the 10 most famous and most flavorful of Chinese teas and comes from one of the oldest tea producing regions of the world - Anhui. We'll sample five different varieties of Keemun as well as learn of its lineage, which foods pair best with it as well how to cook with it.
For Dark Chocolate Lovers Only
Woman with Chocolate on Her Face
Love chocolate? Learn more of the chocolate world while indulging in "hi-octane" samples containing between 60% & 80% cocoa solids. We pair them with a tea that can hold its own and there’s no worries about over-indulging. These chocolates, and the tea, are good for us!





Chocolate TeacupThe Big World of Chocolate

Taste premium samples of white, milk, dark, and exotically flavored chocolates & pair each with a different tea. A program guaranteed to awaken your senses!

 

 
Vintage WomanWhat Were They Thinking!?
Sometimes fashions from another era find us shaking our heads and wondering, "What were they thinking!?" This talk allows us an amusing step back in time for a peek at fashions that hid a woman’s real body, gave her the look of a mermaid, and helped to make swooning the rage!



 
Kissing Girl ImageThe Stories My Clothing Can Tell - A Fashion Show
If our clothing could speak, what stories would they tell? With a look at the history, cultural happenings, and personalities behind ten reproduction gowns, guests are introduced to vintage fashions and accessories spanning the 1880’s through the roaring twenties.

 

 

Sharing a Cup of Tea with YouLittle Girl with Doll Image
Miss Atrocious Manners offers a wildly amusing look at etiquette and what one should not do at tea. An interactive and multi-faceted program sure to engage women nine through ninety-nine.

 

 

 

 
Octavia Ashford & Her Ghosts
It's the late 1890's and you're a guest in the parlor of Lady Octavia Ashford. Over a cup of tea, Octavia tells an eerie Victorian ghost story and shares why the Victorians were so fond of their ghosts - their "Pale Shades."