About Laurence Overmire
Laurence Overmire (born August 17, 1957) is an American poet, author, actor, educator, genealogist, peace activist, civil rights, human rights, and animal rights advocate and environmentalist. He is the author of The One Idea That Saves The World: A Call to Conscience and A Call to Action (2012), a philosophical prose work that deals with the spiritual and moral issues that confront humankind in the 21st century. The book has been endorsed by Thom Hartmann, Bill McKibben, Raffi Cavoukian, The World Business Academy, Mona Polacca of the International Council of 13 Indigenous Grandmothers, Aaron Viles of The Gulf Restoration Network, Adele Douglass of Humane Farm Animal Care and many others. Overmire's poetry has been widely published in the U.S. and abroad in hundreds of journals and anthologies. As an actor, he has performed on Broadway, film and television. He created several databases on RootsWeb to help others trace their own family roots, including The Ancestry of Overmire, Tifft, Richardson, Bradford, Reed, which has generated more than 1.5 million hits. In 2009, Overmire completed One Immigrant's Legacy: The Overmyer Family in America 1751-2009, A Biographical Record of Revolutionary War Veteran Capt. Recognized as the foremost authority on the Overmyer clan in the U.S., Laurence was the keynote speaker at the Overmyer Family National Reunion in Rochester, Fulton Co., IN, the first reunion of its kind in over 100 years.
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