Possible Clues:

• It's about quote from reading by The Speaker
• One speaks about going both ways when touring most of large town
• One storytelling author, not the first to hold church up
• Speaker read extremely clearly at first, and repeated half
• Speaker
• Poet, at a reading
• One in front of the class, maybe
• Declaimer (of, eg, poem)
• Poet, at a reading, e.g.
• One may undertake delivery of a variety of lines