[RP TownTalk] Saturday Lecture, University Park Church of the Brethren, 2/10/18, 5 PM

[Kate Kelly]

This in from our neighbors in University Park. All are welcome.

Friends,
Our next lecturer is Kim Schmidt who will talk about her novel,*Magpie's
Blanket.  *The lecture will be held at the University Park Church of the
Brethren, 4413 Tuckerman Street
<https://maps.google.com/?q=4413+Tuckerman+Street&entry=gmail&source=g>,
on Saturday
February 10th at 5pm..

In *Magpie's Blanket*, a thoughtful award-winning novel, Kimberly D.
Schmidt brings to life the history of Plains Indian women and the white
invasion--an account not solely of violence and bloodshed but also of
healing and forgiveness. *Magpie's Blanket* begins with the story of a
young Southern Cheyenne woman who survived the horrific Sand Creek Massacre
in 1864 only to witness a second attack on her people at the Washita
Massacre in 1868.  Through the memories of three generations of Cheyenne
people, the novel recounts the events of the massacre and the century-late
reconciliation after the townspeople's misguided attempt to re-create the
"battle" of the Washita with descendants of US soldiers.

For more info about the monthly lecture series or if you may have an
interesting topic you would like to present please  call me at 301-779-3168
<(301)%20779-3168>.

Dave Brosch

Bio:

Kimberly D. Schmidt is a professor of history and director of Eastern
Mennonite University's DC-based program, the Washington Community Scholars’
Center. She received her Ph.D. in American history from Binghamton
University in 1995. Publications include*Magpie’s Blanket, *a 2017 Women
Writing the West, WILLA Finalist, category, Historical Fiction.
(University of New Mexico Press, 2016) and the volume,*Strangers at Home:
Amish and Mennonite Women in History*(2002), from The Johns Hopkins
University Press, in addition to several articles.

She recently co-chaired,*Crossing the Line: Women of Anabaptist Traditions
Encounter Borders and Boundaries*, a women's history conference held at
Eastern Mennonite University that attracted over 340 participants from 11
countries.

Kimberly teaches local multicultural history in Washington, DC and has
lived in the area since 1989.
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