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VFW Auxiliary Post “Catoctin Voices”

6658 Emmitsburg — Evening of Poetry

The Patriot’s Pen Presents Tracy Seffers

Each year, the VFW Post 6658 Auxiliary sponsors a contest titled “The at Catoctin Furnace
Patriot’s Pen,” which is open to students in grades sixth through eighth.
Students are required to do a typed essay of 300-400 words, based on the Poet Tracy Seffers of Charles Town, West
theme “America’s Gift to My Generation.” Monetary prizes are given to the Virginia, will read from her latest work, Some
winners on local, state, and national levels. Judging is based on knowledge of Other Life, at the monthly poetry gathering,
the theme, theme development, and clarity of ideas. known as “Catoctin Voices,” on Friday,
If interested, please contact Annette Wivell at 301-447-3475 for an entry September 15, 2017, at 7:00 p.m. The event has
form. Deadline for obtaining the form is October 1, 2017. moved to the historic Collier’s Cabin, located
at 12607 Catoctin Furnace Road in Thurmont,
home of The Catoctin Furnace Historical
Share Your Creative Side Society.
Publisher Finishing Line Press of Kentucky,
P oetry•Dr awing•Photogr ap hy describes Seffer’s work as bringing “…into
view the deep ‘other life’ hidden underneath the
Email to: [email protected] commonplace. It is a celebration of the small
and unseen lives that reveal deeper truth both
divine and deeply human: the poetry sings an
incarnational universe.”
L. Claire Cantwell poet, columnist, and
host of “Catoctin Voices” wrote this jacket review: “Tracy Seffers gives us her
well-lived poems with an intensity and intimacy that both scores and soothes
us, excites and rests, charges and stills. She invites us to float in her world of
familiar themes and objects, but what is unfamiliar is her vision, awash in
something. Shall I say wisdom? Perhaps it’s more akin to grace.”
The poems demonstrate “a musical ear and fine sensibilities that tap deeply
into and from the Appalachian landscape and her own heritage,” writes Dr.
Sylvia Baily Shurbutt, professor of English, Shepherd University, senior editor
of Anthology of Appalachian Writers, and Director of NEH Voices from the
Misty Mountains. “Her poems have an exquisite sense of structure and touch
the reader with the quality of language and art. This is a book you will love.”
Tracy Seffers lives with her family on the banks of the Shenandoah River,
under the shadow of the Blue Ridge. Her poetry has been featured in reading
events throughout the Jefferson County WV Arts Council and in WV Writer’s
podcasts; and published in regional literary journals such as the Bluestone
Review, Backbone Mountain Review, Pine Mountain Sand & Gravel Literary
Journal, the Anthology of Appalachian Writers, and in online journals,
P a t r o n i z e o u r a d v e r t i s e r s ! including Still: The Journal and Assisi: an Online Journal of Arts and Letters.
“Catoctin Voices” is open to the public and features a guest poet from the
The Catoctin Banner newspaper exists due to the region, in addition to open readings from anyone who writes poetry or has a
Your Good News Newspaper advertising support of those featured in each issue. favorite poem by another author to share. Approximately forty-five minutes of
open reading time precedes the featured poet. Refreshments are always served.
For more information, call 301-418-3375.

Environmental Film

Series in Thurmont

On Thursday, September 21, 2017, at 6:00 p.m., a very special
inspirational film called The Man Who Planted Trees will be shown at the
Thurmont Regional Library. It will be the first of three films sponsored by the
Sierra Club and the town of Thurmont. A repeat showing of this film will be
on Saturday, September 30, at 2:00 p.m. at Thurmont’s Main Street Center.
This first one in the fall series is a critically acclaimed film with
breathtaking animation about a man who single-handedly reforests drought
ravaged land with thousands of trees. Though fictional, it is a powerful
parable for all ages. For more information write [email protected]
or pick up a flier at the library.