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Susanna Moodie: Fact and Fiction

Purple Hills presents

Susanna Moodie: Fact & Fiction

Sunday, April 30 @ 2pm

Station on the Green in Creemore, ON

Guests Cecily Ross and Michael Peterman will join us in a moderated conversation about Susanna Moodie. Everyone is welcome to attend this free event.

CECILY ROSS is an award-winning writer and editor who has worked at The Globe and Mail, Maclean’s, Harrowsmith, The Cobourg Star and The Peterborough Examiner. Her writing has also appeared in The New York Times, Chatelaine, ON Nature and Zoomer Magazine. She lives in Creemore, Ontario. Her first novel, The Lost Diaries of Susanna Moodie, is an engrosssing work of historical fiction which explores the emotional landscape of a Canadian pioneering legend. It hits the shelves April 25, 2017 and will be available for purchase at the event.

MICHAEL PETERMAN, Trent professor emeritus in English literature, is a prolific author and editor with a particular interest in 19th and 20th century Canadian authors. He has devoted significant study to Susanna Moodie and her sister Catharine Parr Traill, who both wrote about their experiences in the backwoods of Ontario in the 1830s. Professor Peterman received Trent University’s Distinguished Research Award and was elected a Fellow to The Royal Society of Canada.

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Autumn events still to come in Creemore.

Purple Hills

Sunday, Oct. 23, 2pm to 4pmPurple Hills Events - Autumn

CELEBRATING THE PETUN

(A Tea & History Event)

Our own Pat Raible has published a new book, The Petun: People of the Hills, the result of her deep interest in the people who lived here 400 years ago. You can pick it up at Curiosity House. Join us to celebrate her achievement. Helen Blackburn will share some Petun artifacts from her collection. Presented by Purple Hills Arts & Heritage Society. At the Station on the Green in Creemore.

Saturday, Nov. 12, 7pm

BRUSH UP YOUR SHAKESPEARE

(A FUNdraiser)

An on-stage review with comedy, song, drama and light-hearted scholarship. This is a fundraiser for Purple Hills Arts & Heritage Society. At the Station on the Green in Creemore.

 

Sunday Afternoons: Tea and History Series

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Petun to Wyandot by Charles Garrard

Sunday afternoons.

This longstanding series brings warmth to a winter Sunday afternoon while deepening our understanding of history.

The 2015 speaker was Charles Garrard, author of Petun to Wyandot: The Ontario Petun from the Sixteenth Century (Canadian Museum of History/University of Ottawa Press, 2014). The book, winner of the Ontario Archaeological Society Award for Excellence in Publishing, distills a lifetime of research on the now-dispersed Wyandot tribe, once called the Petun, who encountered the French explorer Samuel de Champlain in 1616 in the area now known as Creemore.

The fascinating story of the Petun Confederacy was also the subject of our 2015 AGM Speaker, local historian Pat Raible (more here). Our next Tea and History afternoon will celebrate the publication of Pat’s new book about the Petun and their history.