The Springfield Regional Arts Council will feature Dr. James Baumlin of the Missouri State University English Department as the guest speaker for The Creamery Writers’ Workshop on Thursday, October 14 from 7-8:30 p.m. Baumlin will demonstrate new means of facilitating information of historical data. Stressing that this technique can be used generally by anyone, Dr. Baumlin noted that he became interested after his family bought a house built in 1840 and he wanted to learn its history. He discovered some letters of the mid-19th century, then gradually more extending through the entire Civil War period. Just this year the collection has been collated and a finished manuscript turned over this month to MSU’s Moon City Press for publication, an edition which may prove to be the first of its kind of correspondence written solely by women. The Creamery Writers' Workshop is an outreach program of the Springfield Regional Arts Council and is free and open to all writers, regardless of age or genre. No registration is required. The group meets the 2nd and 4th Thursday each month from 7 to 8:30 p.m. in The Creamery Arts Center at 411 N. Sherman Parkway, right across from Hammons Field. For further information, call the Springfield Regional Arts Council, 417-862-ARTS(2787).
