Speaker
Artist Bio: Nick Rechtin is a retired elementary teacher and a raconteur with over 25 years of extensive programming and speaking experience – most recently in senior centers and retirement communities.
His enthusiasm and personal engagement of audiences has also been welcomed at other civic organizations (for example, the Cincinnati Rotary Club and the Cincinnati Woman’s Club). He also has experience producing and presenting programs on closed circuit and public access cable TV – prerecorded or via Zoom.
Program Description: Nick’s 45 minute PowerPoint presentations are engaging, fast-paced, stimulating, and thought provoking.
Some topics include:
- Greetings from the abandoned Cincinnati subway.
- The evolution of Cincinnati’s Ohio River bridges
- Steamboats – “Candles and Soap to Machine Tools and Beyond”
- The Cincinnati Parks and The City Beautiful Movement
- The ghosts of Cincinnati Christmas past
- Taming the Ohio River – its beaches, amusement parks, dams, and floods
- A tour of the great 1888 Centennial Cincinnati Exposition in Music Hall and Washington Park
- Canal Days in Cincinnati – a scenic tour of the Miami and Erie Canal
- Newport’s “Sin City” – The many legends and exorcism of its past
- Cincinnati from horse cars and inclined planes to the electric age
- What it was like BEFORE Cincinnati’s Union Terminal
- The second oldest (and best) zoo in America
- Cincinnati from Ballyhoo and Burlesque to RKO and Broadway
- From Chester Park, to LeSourdsville and Coney island
- Cincinnati’s Sacred Spaces
- (Will consider developing/creating other topics with agency cooperation)
Equipment Needs: Projector and screen
Recommended For: Anyone seeking to have fun while attracting and engaging an enthusiastic audience.
Schedule/Availability: Open – Within Northern Kentucky and Greater Cincinnati.
