The Valpo Core

Wordfest event: the Accabellas open for award-winning fiction writer, Margaret McMullan

When: Thurs, Feb 21st at 6 pm

Where: Brauer Museum

What: music, art, literature, refreshments, book signing

COME OUT OF CURIOSITY; STAY FOR THE CULTURE.

McMullan has most recently published When I Crossed No-Bob (2007), the sequel to her first young-adult novel about a Southern family during the Civil War. When I Crossed No-Bob shares some of the same characters but occurs during the period of Reconstruction. McMullan also writes adult novels, short stories, and essays. She is currently a professor of English at the University of Evansville, in Evansville, Indiana, where she lives with her husband, Patrick O’Connor and their son, James.The three of them have work in an upcoming issue of National Geographic for Kids.

Check her work out at: http://www.margaretmcmullan.com/index.html

Experience the “Passion Story” as never before, presented in mime with narration and music from Dances With Wolves. It is performed by Ascension Lutheran Church’s Youth Mime Ministry from Waukesha, WI. Twenty-five youth strong, grades 9th-12th, the group invites you to share Jesus’ struggle in the Garden of Gethsemane, the Last Supper, Peter’s denial of Jesus and the Crucifixion in a unique venue. This ties in with the Core unit on love and the reading in Core later this semester from the Gospel According to Luke.

Important Details:

When: Wednesday, February 20, 2008, 10 pm celebration service

Where: Chapel of the Resurrection, Valparaiso University