Registration Form Registration Schedule of Events Announcing Registrations will be accepted until May 31 the 2010 Western Pennsylvania ______or until all 25 spaces are filled. To register, Friday, June 18 Women Writers Retreat Name please send a check for the total amount 3:30 p.m. Arrival and check-in ______(payable to Saint Francis University) to (Christian Hall Lobby) Summer e-mail address Dr. Robin Cadwallader, Dept. of English, Regaining a Sense Communication Arts & Foreign Languages, 4-5:30 p.m. Guided tour of the former ______Saint Francis University, Loretto, PA, Schwab Estate gardens of Wonder Affiliated institution 15940-0600. Phone: 814-472-3050. 6-8 p.m. Get-acquainted picnic

(JFK Student Center—lower level patio) ______Your $20 registration fee includes at Summer mailing address 8-8:30 p.m. Time to unpack or socialize Saint Francis University, ______•Welcome Picnic Friday •Movie Friday evening 8:30-11 p.m. Screening of Loretto, PA Rachel Carson’s Silent Spring and ______•Coffee & breakfast Saturday June 18 & 19, 2010 discussion (DiSepio 213-214) ______Featuring selected works of Summer phone An optional buffet luncheon is available Saturday, June 19 Saturday for an additional $10. Rachel Carson and Annie Dillard 8-8:30 a.m. Coffee and conversation Check payable to Saint Francis University enclosed for the following: (Christian Hall Lobby) Dinner Saturday is on your own—let us Special guest: Registration $20.00 x ____(# attending) = $_____ recommend a local eatery! 8:30-9 a.m. Light breakfast Linda Lear, author of

(DiSepio second floor) Rachel Carson: Witness for Nature Optional Saturday sandwich buffet luncheon at the Lodging and Travel Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art (traditional 9-10:30 a.m. Writing Rachel Carson’s and vegetarian fare) Information Life: A Conversation with Linda Lear Registration only $20 At minimal cost, participants are invited to (DiSepio 213-214) $10.00 x ____(# attending) = $_____ stay the night of June 18 at Christian Hall, a state-of-the-art living/learning center. All 10:45-12:15 p.m. Discussion of Optional lodging at Christian Hall, night of June 18 rooms have private baths, a/c, and wireless Annie Dillard, moderated by Gloria Kerr, Saint Vincent College (DiSepio 201) Rooms: Single $37 double $48.00 $_____ access. Most rooms are single or double occupancy, but four 4-person suites are 12:30-1:45 p.m. Luncheon--optional Suite (for up to 4 persons): $79.00 $_____ also available. Rates: $37 single, $48 reservation required double, $79 4-person suite. Situated at the (Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art) Total amount enclosed: $_____ south end of campus, Christian Hall offers 2-3:30 p.m. Creative Writing Workshop Mail registration forms and checks to a view of Lake Saint Francis and the nearby Dr. Robin Cadwallader “Writing about Place” led by Lori Jakiela, mountain ridges. Convenient, free parking U of Pitt-Greensburg (DiSepio 201) Funded by a Saint Francis Saint Francis University is available. Our university personnel can University Excellence in Education English/Communication 3:30-4 p.m. Planning session and Grant, a Faculty Development Arts & Foreign Languages accommodate most dietary, mobility, or Grant, the Provost’s Office, and P.O. Box 600 special needs—just ask. farewells (DiSepio 201) the School of Arts & Letters Loretto, PA 15940-0600 Focal Texts About the Retreat the 2010 Western Pennsylvania Our first retreat in 2008 featured Rachel Carson Women Writers Retreat Rebecca Harding Davis, Nellie Bly, 1. A Sense of Wonder. Harper/Collins, Willa Cather, Margaret Deland, 1998. Introduced by Linda Lear Jennifer Haigh, and Tawni O’Dell. 2. Silent Spring. 40th anniversary at Saint Francis University, The next, in 2012, will feature mystery Mariner edition. Introduced by Linda Loretto, PA writer Mary Roberts Rinehart and a Lear June 18 & 19, 2010 living “mystery” author. 3. Recommended: Linda Lear’s definitive biography Rachel Carson: Witness for Nature (Mariner 2009) Annie Dillard

1. “Heaven and Earth in Jest” and “Seeing,” the opening chapters of About Linda Lear Pilgrim at Tinker Creek (winner of the 1974 Pulitzer Prize) Linda Lear grew up in Glenshaw, in the 2. An American Childhood, pages rural North Hills, two generations after

130-137 (the chapter beginning “Young Carson’s birth in Springdale, PA, but only children have no sense of wonder.”) two valleys apart as the crow flies. Her conscious connection with Carson did not About Lori Jakiela

begin until Lear was already a professional Lori Jakiela is the author of the memoir Miss historian. Yet, Lear witnessed some of the Rachel Carson, about age 5, reading to her New York Has Everything (Warner 2006) dog, Candy. Provided courtesy of Linda Lear same degradation of the environment that and the poetry collections The Regulars Center for Special Collections and Archives, marked Carson’s childhood: the pollution (2001) and Red Eye (2010). Her essays Connecticut College. of the Allegheny and Monongahela Rivers, have been published in the New York the stench of the meat packing factories Times, the Washington Post, the Chicago Saint Francis University along the river, and the failure of the Tribune, and elsewhere; her nonfiction in Founded in 1847 and named for Saint barons of industry to take responsibility. collections such as Short Takes (ed. by Francis of Assisi, SFU is the oldest Fran- Lear credits Carson’s indignation over the Elizabeth Penfield), The Truth of the Matter ciscan university in the United States careless destruction of the environment to (ed. Dinty Moore), and Keep It Real (ed. and one of the first Catholic colleges es- those same childhood experiences. Lee Gutkind). She was nominated for a tablished in this country. Our founders, 2009 Pushcart Prize. Teaching in the under- A decade in the making, Lear’s biography six Franciscan friars from Ireland, came graduate writing program at The University of Carson is based on oral interviews to Loretto to establish a school with the Annie Doak stalking mystery with her younger of Pittsburgh-Greensburg and in the low- with contemporaries, all but one of whom threefold educational purpose of spiritual sister Amy at Pittsburgh’s Frick Park. Source: residency M.F.A. creative writing program at Eugene H. Pattison, “The Limberlost, Tinker has now passed away. Lear shows how guidance, formal academic preparation, Chatham University, she lives with her fam- Creek, Science and Society” Carson’s sense of mission and witness and community service. ily in her hometown, Trafford, Pennsylvania Pittsburgh History Winter 1994/95. transformed nature writing as well as the Reprinted by permission of Annie Dillard public’s understanding of the wonder and -- the birthplace of the chocolate-covered integrity of all life. pickle. Her website is www.lorijakiela.com. Designed by Michael Sell Class of 2010