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Hi, I am Barbara Rinella!
Barbara Rinella, a former teacher, defines herself as an “academic entertainer.” For many years she has been celebrating literature and learning through her delightful programs on current books. Barbara is now thrilled to continue a dramatization of Passionate Mothers, Powerful Sons by Charlotte Gray, a wonderful focus on the amazing mothers of Winston Churchill and Franklin Delano Roosevelt! This is an astounding mother story of two American girls, Jenny Jerome and Sara Delano, both born in 1854, and grew up in New York!
Jenny falls in love at 19, when she meets 24 year old Lord Randolph Churchill at a Royal yacht party! Sara finally has a boyfriend when she is 26 years old and meets a kind, 52 year old widower, James Roosevelt. Both marriages will lead to creating baby boys who will totally soar to power and true fame! So far, Barbara's groups have been filled with lovely mothers who do have powerful sons!! Barbara was honored to present in 2023 & 2024 a lovely program on The Queen, Her Life by Andrew Morton as a true salute to now Angel Queen Elizabeth II, the longest reigning Queen ever!! Coming soon in 2025, there will be a strong praise and honor to family and friends who fought in the Vietnam War in 1965 to 1975, with, of course, a true salute to wonderful Kristin Hannah's top selling novel, The Women!
Events open for people to enjoy dramatization of Passionate Mothers, Powerful Sons:
May 3, 2025, Winnetka Library768 Oak Street, Winnetka, IL 60093. Contact: Jill Brasseur,
jbrasse@wnpld.org or 847-446-7220
May 8, 2025, Northbrook Park District, 3323 Walters Ave., Northbrook, IL 60062. Contact,
Nancy Eschker, neschker@nbparks.org or 847-331-9139
New Event - Salute to Vietnam Vets & terrific novel The Women by Kristin Hannah!
Oct. 1, 2025, Inverness Book Club at Barrington Hills CC, 300 W. County Line Rd.,
Barrington Hills, IL 60010. Contact: Carol Berman, carolberman347@gmail.com or
847-815-7445
