Wanda Burch (hamlet of Glen, Montgomery County, NY) [MA, SUNY Oneonta, Cooperstown Graduate Program] is a historian and writer whose published works include: She Who Dreams. A Journey into Healing through Dreamwork (New World Library, 2003); The Home Voices Speak Louder than the Drums: Dreams and the Imagination in Civil War Letters and Memoirs [McFarland Publishers, summer 2017]; and Dreaming of Home, an 8-page liner-note booklet showcasing dreams of soldiers in the American Civil War, which accompanies a music CD by the 77th NY Regimental Balladeers, “Come Dearest the Daylight is Gone” (2015). Articles include New York History [“Sir William Johnson’s Cabinet of Curiosities,” July 1990; “A Little World Formed at His Hand, 2009], Dublin Seminars [Medicine and Healing in the 18th Century, “Sir William Johnson & 18th Century Medicine in the NY Colony,” 1990]; contributor to Celebrating Johnstown: A Community Looks Back on 250 Years, edited by Bill Ackerbauer; and articles on dreams and imagery in various women’s and self-help magazines, most recently featured in Sibyl Magazine: For the Spirit and Soul of Woman. Poems have been published in Persimmon Tree. Wanda Burch’s writing was also published in Black Lives Have Always Mattered, a Collection of Essays, Poems and Personal Narratives, edited by Abiodun Oyewole. Wanda is a presenter/member of the International Association for the Study of Dreams, trained in dream facilitation. She is a graduate of the National Breast Cancer Coalition’s LEAD, and is an advocate research grant proposal peer reviewer for the DOD Breast Cancer Research Program. As a staff member for Creative Healing Connections, she co-presents Adirondack arts retreats for women surviving chronic illness and for women who have served in the military. Wanda Burch provides workshops on dreams, and Wanda and Ron Burch offer programs on The Home Voices, Words and Music [original songs based on letters and memoirs of Civil War soldiers].
Listed skills include Museums, History, American History, Historical Research, and 24 others.
