GREENE – Sandy Mortimer will narrate her film, “Irish Stories and Glories,” at 7 p.m. Thursday, May 22, and 2 and 7 p.m. Friday, May 23, at the Araxine Wilkins Sawyer Memorial, 371 Sawyer Road. Admission is free and the doors will open one hour before shows.

Mortimer was born and grew up in Flint, Mich. Based in New York as a flight attendant and later as a public speaker and sales consultant for American airlines, she traveled throughout the United States and the world.

During the 1970s, she was a news reporter and on-air personality for a CBS affiliate television station. In the mid-1980s, she was a copywriter and producer for television and radio productions as well as video and audiovisual presentations for several markets. Mortimer also began to broaden her interest to include travel documentaries, visiting Central America to produce her first film -about the Maya culture of Belize, Guatemala and Honduras.

In 1989 she began lecturing with her film, and since then has produced films on Louisiana, Egypt, the AL-CAN Highway, Israel and Jordan.

In 1993 Mortiner was recognized for her work and received the Rising Star Award from the Professional Travelogue Sponsor Association. In 1997 she received the Hall of Fame Award from that same organization.

She is president of the International Motion Picture and Lecturers Association. When not on tour or on filming location, Mortimer makes her home in Kentucky with her husband, nature and travel film producer, Dale Johnson.

The richness of Ireland lies not only in the beauty of the land, but in the stories of its people. The audience will “meet’ some of those who have lived there … throughout the millennium.

They will join present day residents and Medieval Dubliners, visit Kells Monastery and County Monahan as well as the Cooley Peninsula. They will then travel to Northern Ireland before turning south along the Shannon River. Stops will be made in County Galway and County Mayo.

For more information, call 946-5311 or visit http://ourworld.es.com/sawyerfoundation.