HOUGHTON -- Few things are scarier than change, and few emotions are more powerful than fear. Students in the summer reading seminar led Aug. 26 by Michigan Tech humanities professor Robert Johnson batted around these and other concepts raised by the novel Lay That Trumpet in Our Hands, with author Susan Carol McCarthy sitting in on the discussion.
McCarthy recently spoke to students, faculty and community members at both MTU and Finlandia universities, where students have been reading and discussing the novel, based on experiences of her own family.
The novel is the coming-of-age story of young Reesa McMahon, the daughter of an orange grower, set against an historical truth: a violent string of Klan bombings and lynchings that wracked Florida in 1951.
Read the article on responses to the book by one group of MTU students -- written by Marcia Goodrich, MTU senior writer, in the Sept. 1 issue of Tech Today.
Tuesday, September 01, 2009
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