PRING IME RITERS©

Writing Workshops
Words for the Mind & Spirit

presents Southern Belles Tour Package
Journaling Opportunities
Creating More Love
in Your Life and the World

late fall 2008 (late October or early November, tentative)
one week, Saturday to Saturday
Lodging on grand plantation properties, incl. private tours
Baton Rouge, St. Francisville and New Orleans
Only 5 to 11 retreaters (shared/or/private rooms)
Includes Journaling Workshop, and daily unique tours

Learn how the power of love can make the world a better place. Use journaling for self-discovery and self-help. Plus, exciting, informative daily tours. Retreat includes professional warm journaling (workshop), stays at historic plantation style lodgings, area tours, including a Halloween ghost tour, and some regional flavored-meals. Write waterside or under live oaks, draped with moss. Plus free time to do antique shopping, garden tours, boat rides, and more.

Do your part to create more healing love in your life and the world. Join us for this unique retreat. It's your answer to getting more relaxation and spiritual enlightenment. We will be doing a ceremony open to the public specifically to bring more healing love to the New Orleans Greater Metropolitan (Louisiana) area. Locals who are hurting and confused will find tools to help them; and, persons across the nation are invited to join and bring their strong loving personages to build the momentum.

NOTE: This workshop was not conducted in 2005 due to Katrina's havoc. These pages will be finalized as to which plantations or historic lodgings will be offered, and the description of the afternoon tours. Be assured that it will be only of the finest quality.

.

SAMPLE LODGING:

Stay at a grand 1790s antebellum southern plantation. The Butler Greenwood house has been in the same family for 8 generations. Butler Greenwood Plantation
and Landscaped Grounds The historic antique-filled antebellum home is from the early 1790s. The Butler family is still in residence today. It has the area's finest original formal Victorian parlor. Walk the extensive landscaped grounds with formal 19th century gardens and hundreds of ancient moss-draped live oak trees, and birdhouses blending in; where artist John J. Audubon painted nearly one-third of his "Birds of America" studies.

.

Tentative TOURS:

Backcountry Tour

Included is a private tour of the back, private area of the plantation property, by a local bird and nature enthusiast, teacher and wildlife painter. (This may be substituted for a garden tour, TBA)

Angola Prison

Enjoy a private tour or visit to this renowned prison. The compelling stories will add depth to your writing experience.

America's Most Haunted House:

Visit the plantation that has been labelled by several TV shows as the most haunted house. A lively evening tour. Optional dinner in the plantation luxury dining hall.

Additional Sights to See:

Some afternoons are free for you to check out the renowned antique stores, or the mighty Mississippi, including ancient cemeteries, and haunted houses.

New Orleans Tour:

You will delight in the French Quarter and, be entranced by the all-afternoon tour of Creole history, and end the day meeting fellow writers over a genuine Creole French 5-course meal. Soak in the spirit of the city.

Plantation Tour:

Visit some of the earliest, most unique and/or grandest of the plantations in the South. (details to follow)

"There is a wisdom of the head
and a wisdom of the heart"
-- Charles Dickens

Details to Plan Your Workshop

Accommodations/Food: Includes lodging in a private or semi-private secluded romantic cottage with plenty of historic charm scattered across the plantation grounds. Many of the rooms includes such things as: fireplaces, jacuzzis (indoors), stained glass windows, big four-poster tester beds (testers are partial canopies), and private bathrooms.

Plenty of places to do your writing in: in front of the fireplace; on the decks over the sweeping views; pondside, with the neighborly ducks and a gorgeous peacock, or riverside along the grand Mississippi.

Continental Breakfast (coffee, orange juice, pastries and cereals) provided in your room daily. Several fast food and full service restaurants nearby (a list will be provided); as well as a grocery store for your own cooking pleasure.

As with all our workshops, we encourage a safe family atmosphere and shared respect and caring to allow for opening up and allowing yourself to be all you can be. Class sizes are kept small to afford personal attention (generally 7 to 11 students). YOU are the #1 focus of this class, and you deserve to be pampered. This class usually has a waiting list, so you should reserve your spot early.

Location and transportation: A car is necessary to reach this location, which is approximately 1-1/2 to 2 hours from the New Orleans airport (map will be provided), or 30 minutes from Baton Rouge. The plantations are located in the scenic unspoiled English Louisiana. (***We also offer a "group car" with driver at a reasonable fee, which is below solo rental rates.)

Cost: $1,225 private cabin or room; $xxx shared cabin with private bedroom. Including luxury lodging, lectures, tours, breakfast and New Orleans dinner. Massage: $65.00 extra. Inquire about car/shuttle.

Deposit & Refunds: $100 due with reservation form; balance due in our offices one month before workshop by personal check. Lodging owner will take your charge card number for security purposes. With written notice of cancellation received 30 days before workshop full refund less $50. (This may be changed upon finalizing the lodging contract) After 30 days, no refunds unless a full replacement is found; then $50 fee.

Early Bird DISCOUNTS!!
Pay your reservation by July 1st and receive $100 off the workshop!
Reservations paid by August 1st get $50 off the workshop
Reservations paid by September 1st - journalers get a free journal upon arrival at the retreat.
All other monies due in full in our offices by October 1st.

Reserve early; avoid disappointment. Openings for only 5 to 11 students.

Bringing Friends. Adult friends and spouses are welcome. Your guest will share a cabin or room with you, and can participate in all non-writing activities, at a reduced rate. If your guest/spouse (non-writer) shares the same bed, take even more off the price.

Retreat Only

• Come and relax on the plantation. Write on your own time schedule. You can participate in all tours, both in New Orleans and in St. Francisville. Rub shoulders with other writers.
• If you would like to skip the day/tour in New Orleans, you can go directly to the plantation, using your own car. You can fly into Baton Rouge. Transportation to the plantation on your own; (a pre-arranged early morning taxi is available approx. $35). We can arrange for a free heavenly massage in town. Independent Writers can ask for a private consultation with Director Kathleen Spring, to review the work you are doing, and make suggestions (inquire about details). You can join our "group car" package, which will take you to the tours, the book fest, and back to the airport (addtl. cost).
• Or, really "retreat" from the group activities, deduct $xxx from your fee, and skip the writing discussions, tours and massage, and set your own relaxing and sight-seeing schedule and entertainment, and writing schedule ...including spending Saturday at the Book Fest.

Arrival Day Fun

Baton Rouge Book Festival: October ?, 2008, Saturday: The Louisiana Book Festival is a family-friendly event aimed at readers of all ages, noted State Librarian Thomas F. Jaques. The lineup features renowned national authors and noted Louisiana writers whose works represent a variety of genres, including both fiction and non-fiction. The festival site includes the Louisiana State Capitol, the State Library of Louisiana and adjoining areas, where tents will brim with an abundance of book-related activities for both children and adults. Food vendors and musicians will fuel the festive occasion. Additional information about the Louisiana Book Festival is available from the Louisiana Center for the Book by telephone (225/219-9503 or toll-free 888/487-2700) http://www.louisianabookfestival.org/

Extra Days: You can stay extra days at the plantation; inquire for a 7-day discount rate.

New Orleans Recovering "Do you know what it means to miss New Orleans?” so inquires the old jazz standard—a question ever more poignant today. The answer is as clear as the spring skies above the mighty Mississippi River: You don’t have to miss it anymore. Spring is a time of rebirth and renewed hope, and so it’s the best time to go back to New Orleans. Why not come and celebrate the life of a city we almost lost—a magical place of myth and memory which can never be taken from those of us who love her? If you’ve ever been there in spring and felt this tender season touch the Crescent City, cradled by a gentle breeze as it skips off a bend in the Mississippi River, you’ll realize that, no matter what ill wind may blow, we’ll always have New Orleans... I love New Orleans in much the same way a woman might love a man—madly, truly, deeply—and I, like everyone else there, am left broken-hearted by the fickle, cruel Katrina. Since the hurricane hit the Gulf Coast and the levees broke in New Orleans, I’ve gone home every month. However, it was not until February that I felt at all hopeful about the city. Ever since Mardi Gras, though, I’ve come to believe that the South will indeed rise again ..." by Janis Turk is a travel writer and photographer, www.theculturedtraveler.com/Archives/JUN2006/Lead_Story.htm

---

"Frankly, my dear, I don't give a damn."
--Rhett Butler

---

Return to Spring Time Writers Workshops

Creative Writing; plus 3 different kinds of Journaling
including Visual/arts and Celtic Myths

Quick jump to Rocky Mt. Retreats Contents
Wellness Retreat in the Colorado Rockies
or flyfishing retreats

E-mail to: writers -@- SpringTimeWriters.xxx--change to .com

Know a friend without a computer?
We can send them a brochure:

Spring Time Writers
A division of Rocky Mt. Retreats
Retreats and Workshops for the Mind & Spirit
P. O. Box 512
Lyons, CO 80540-0512
(303) 823-0997
10am to 7pm Mountain MST

For the most up-to-date information, be sure to visit this site.
THANKS! See you soon.
Date last modified: May 5, 2007 9:00 AM

---

Disclaimer: Copyright 2002-2008: All logos, photos, and original and html text are Copyright © by Kathleen Spring. All Rights Reserved. Reproduction or use is prohibited without written permission from owner. – All prices, dates and itineraries are subject to change at the discretion of the owner. 760=1pg.