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<blockquote type="cite" style="color:rgb(34,34,34);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.8px;font-style:normal;font-variant-ligatures:normal;font-variant-caps:normal;font-weight:400;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);text-decoration-style:initial;text-decoration-color:initial"><blockquote type="cite"><p style="font-size:14pt;font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)">This in from our neighbors in University Park. All are welcome.</p><p style="font-size:14pt;font-family:helvetica,arial,sans-serif;color:rgb(51,51,51)">Friends,</p><div class="gmail-m_-75141487385148196ox-be4145d7b3-ox-dacf8017f3-ox-667f2017d1-F0XO1GC-f-x"><div class="gmail-m_-75141487385148196ox-be4145d7b3-ox-dacf8017f3-ox-667f2017d1-F0XO1GC-f-l gmail-m_-75141487385148196ox-be4145d7b3-ox-dacf8017f3-ox-667f2017d1-F0XO1GC-f-e"><div class="gmail-m_-75141487385148196ox-be4145d7b3-ox-dacf8017f3-ox-667f2017d1-F0XO1GC-b-D"><div class="gmail-m_-75141487385148196ox-be4145d7b3-ox-dacf8017f3-ox-667f2017d1-F0XO1GC-f-G"><div class="gmail-m_-75141487385148196ox-be4145d7b3-ox-dacf8017f3-ox-667f2017d1-F0XO1GC-ub-a"><div class="gmail-m_-75141487385148196ox-be4145d7b3-ox-dacf8017f3-ox-667f2017d1-F0XO1GC-ub-b"><div class="gmail-m_-75141487385148196ox-be4145d7b3-ox-dacf8017f3-ox-667f2017d1-F0XO1GC-vb-p"><div class="gmail-m_-75141487385148196ox-be4145d7b3-ox-dacf8017f3-ox-667f2017d1-F0XO1GC-vb-r"><div class="gmail-m_-75141487385148196ox-be4145d7b3-ox-dacf8017f3-ox-667f2017d1-F0XO1GC-vb-k"><div class="gmail-m_-75141487385148196ox-be4145d7b3-ox-dacf8017f3-ox-667f2017d1-F0XO1GC-vb-l gmail-m_-75141487385148196ox-be4145d7b3-ox-dacf8017f3-ox-667f2017d1-editable"><div class="gmail-m_-75141487385148196ox-be4145d7b3-ox-dacf8017f3-ox-667f2017d1-ox-6667d9667e-ox-a31adfdfe7-gmail_default">Our next lecturer is Kim Schmidt who will talk about her novel,<em>Magpie's Blanket. </em>The lecture will be held at the University Park Church of the Brethren,<span> </span><a href="https://maps.google.com/?q=4413+Tuckerman+Street&entry=gmail&source=g" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">4413 Tuckerman Street</a>, on<span> </span><span class="gmail-aBn" tabindex="0" style="border-bottom:1px dashed rgb(204,204,204)"><span class="gmail-aQJ" style="top: 2px; z-index: -1;">Saturday February 10th at 5pm.</span></span>. </div><div class="gmail-m_-75141487385148196ox-be4145d7b3-ox-dacf8017f3-ox-667f2017d1-ox-6667d9667e-ox-a31adfdfe7-gmail_default"><br></div><div class="gmail-m_-75141487385148196ox-be4145d7b3-ox-dacf8017f3-ox-667f2017d1-ox-6667d9667e-ox-a31adfdfe7-gmail_default">In <em>Magpie's Blanket</em>, 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. <em>Magpie's Blanket</em> 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.</div><div class="gmail-m_-75141487385148196ox-be4145d7b3-ox-dacf8017f3-ox-667f2017d1-ox-6667d9667e-ox-a31adfdfe7-gmail_default"><br></div><div class="gmail-m_-75141487385148196ox-be4145d7b3-ox-dacf8017f3-ox-667f2017d1-ox-6667d9667e-ox-a31adfdfe7-gmail_default">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<span> </span><a href="tel:(301)%20779-3168" value="+13017793168" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(17,85,204)">301-779-3168</a>.</div><div class="gmail-m_-75141487385148196ox-be4145d7b3-ox-dacf8017f3-ox-667f2017d1-ox-6667d9667e-ox-a31adfdfe7-gmail_default"><br></div><div class="gmail-m_-75141487385148196ox-be4145d7b3-ox-dacf8017f3-ox-667f2017d1-ox-6667d9667e-ox-a31adfdfe7-gmail_default">Dave Brosch</div><div class="gmail-m_-75141487385148196ox-be4145d7b3-ox-dacf8017f3-ox-667f2017d1-ox-6667d9667e-ox-a31adfdfe7-gmail_default"><br></div><div class="gmail-m_-75141487385148196ox-be4145d7b3-ox-dacf8017f3-ox-667f2017d1-ox-6667d9667e-ox-a31adfdfe7-gmail_default">Bio: </div><div class="gmail-m_-75141487385148196ox-be4145d7b3-ox-dacf8017f3-ox-667f2017d1-ox-6667d9667e-ox-a31adfdfe7-gmail_default"><br></div><div class="gmail-m_-75141487385148196ox-be4145d7b3-ox-dacf8017f3-ox-667f2017d1-ox-6667d9667e-ox-a31adfdfe7-gmail_default">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<em>Magpie’s Blanket, </em>a 2017 Women Writing the West, WILLA Finalist, category, Historical Fiction. (University of New Mexico Press, 2016) and the volume,<em>Strangers at Home: Amish and Mennonite Women in History</em>(2002), from The Johns Hopkins University Press, in addition to several articles. </div><div class="gmail-m_-75141487385148196ox-be4145d7b3-ox-dacf8017f3-ox-667f2017d1-ox-6667d9667e-ox-a31adfdfe7-gmail_default"><br></div><div class="gmail-m_-75141487385148196ox-be4145d7b3-ox-dacf8017f3-ox-667f2017d1-ox-6667d9667e-ox-a31adfdfe7-gmail_default">She recently co-chaired,<em>Crossing the Line: Women of Anabaptist Traditions Encounter Borders and Boundaries</em>, a women's history conference held at Eastern Mennonite University that attracted over 340 participants from 11 countries.</div><div class="gmail-m_-75141487385148196ox-be4145d7b3-ox-dacf8017f3-ox-667f2017d1-ox-6667d9667e-ox-a31adfdfe7-gmail_default"><br></div><div class="gmail-m_-75141487385148196ox-be4145d7b3-ox-dacf8017f3-ox-667f2017d1-ox-6667d9667e-ox-a31adfdfe7-gmail_default">Kimberly teaches local multicultural history in Washington, DC and has lived in the area since 1989.</div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></blockquote></blockquote>
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