Samantha Thompson

Hi everyone! I'm a substitute teacher and tutor currently working on my MAT so that I can teach Middle School Social Studies. I love history and have been an amateur genealogist for 12 years now. My mom's maiden name is Alexander, and we have ancestors from several other Scottish families: Burns, Cunningham, MacLellan, and Buie. Some of these we have not been able to trace all the way back to the "old country" yet, but some we have. For example, the Buies came to North Carolina from the Isle of Jura and the Alexanders came from Ireland.

The Princess Bride, Braveheart, Indiana Jones, Beauty and the Beast, Casablanca, The Patriot, James Bond, Gone With the Wind, Cold Mountain, O Brother, Where Art Thou?, Gods and Generals, The Illusionist, Sweet Home Alabama, My Big Fat Greek Wedding, Pride and Prejudice

Jane Eyre, The Princess Bride, Prince Otto, Pride and Prejudice, Kidnapped, Little Women, The Hunger Games, The Scarlet Letter, The Tale of Peter Rabbit, A Tale of Two Cities, Lowlands of Scotland Series, How the Scots Invented the Modern World, The Scotch-Irish, Admiral Hornblower, To Rule the Waves, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, The Trophy Chase Trilogy, A Child's Garden of Verses, Treasure Island (Can you tell that I love Stevenson yet?), Robinson Crusoe

Just a sampling: Zac Brown Band, Vivaldi, Twin Atlantic, Alison Krauss and Union Station (really anything Bluegrass), Adele, Mumford and Sons, Bob Marley, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Snow Patrol, The Chieftans, Gaelic Storm, Dropkick Murphys, Alicia Keys, Third Day, Shawn McDonald, The Gospel Whiskey Runners, Keith and Kristyn Getty, Lecrae, Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong, Calvin Harris, Usher, Rihanna, Emeli Sande, Ne-Yo, Mario, Alex Clare, Rascal Flatts, Dixie Chicks, Luke Bryan, Darius Rucker, Lady Antebellum, Josh Turner, The Civil Wars, Carolina Chocolate Drops, Julie Fowlis, Alisdair Fraser, Battlefield Band