Submit a written script and an audio recording. At the bottom of this page, listen to/read the first Wambach audio clip (about James Buchanan).

(1) Without changing the length or the content, edit Wambach’s original script to put it in your voice and update it for modern ears. 

(2) Then imagine that the Selinsgrove History Association asks you to revise Wambach’s talk to make it gesture toward Selinsgrove and the Mary Kittera Snyder angle. This is more about FEELING than LEARNING. 

Your task is to incorporate two new passages into the revised Wambach script:

On the first page, add 150 words of Klein material after “Pennsylvania State Legislature in 1814…” In particular, use
Klein’s general framing of Buchanan’s love affair with Coleman to introduce this aspect of his personal life. We don’t care about Coleman here—we care about how her presence sets us up for the MKS material. Convey to the listener what Klein tells the reader to feel about Buchanan.

At the top of the second page, after the phrase “agricultural beauty is still there,” add 150 words that introduce MKS into the material. Start with the transition phrase, “That wasn’t the only beauty that caught Buchanan’s eye.” (That transition works only
if you leave the original phrase in there, so do not edit Wambach’s “agricultural beauty” phrase out of the script.)