November 11 from 1:30-3:30 the Kansas Authors Club will feature Dr. Sharon Hill Cranford who will speak about her process of co-researching and co-writing a book that is part memoir, part creative nonfiction. Her book, Kinship Concealed: Amish Mennonite-African American Family Connections, evolved from discovering quite by accident that she was related to a Mennonite professor, a connection that surprised them both and set them to co-researching their roots.
Dr. Sharon Hill Cranford is a transplanted Texan who has given much to Wichita including 30 years working in mental health, education and diversity training. She leads Wichita's A.R.I.S.E. Ensemble which keeps America's original music, spirituals, alive by performing them in concerts around the city and beyond and educating school children to the meaning and origin of this music while teaching them to sing the songs. Dr. Cranford is a scholar in this field and is a charter member of the 28-year-old choir. She is also president and historian for the A.R.I.S.E. (African-Americans Renewing Interest in Spirituals, Inc.) Board of Directors. She ensures that the stories undergirding the spirituals that the Ensemble sings are moving and authentic.
During the past year with the urging of local filmmakers and historians, Dr. Cranford is currently writing a screenplay entitled Charley Mast, based on the Kinship Concealed book.
She will share with us what she has learned in her new career as a writer and the challenges of co-writing and addressing the diversity within our own family stories.
Come and bring a friend to this free public program.
When: Saturday, November 11, 2017 at 1:30-3:30 p.m. Where: Larksfield Place, 7373 E. 29th St. N., Wichita KS (just west of Rock Rd. on the south side of 29th Street).
Park in the Visitors Center lot and enter the Welcome Entrance walking left through the dining room.
Dr. Sharon Hill Cranford is a transplanted Texan who has given much to Wichita including 30 years working in mental health, education and diversity training. She leads Wichita's A.R.I.S.E. Ensemble which keeps America's original music, spirituals, alive by performing them in concerts around the city and beyond and educating school children to the meaning and origin of this music while teaching them to sing the songs. Dr. Cranford is a scholar in this field and is a charter member of the 28-year-old choir. She is also president and historian for the A.R.I.S.E. (African-Americans Renewing Interest in Spirituals, Inc.) Board of Directors. She ensures that the stories undergirding the spirituals that the Ensemble sings are moving and authentic.
During the past year with the urging of local filmmakers and historians, Dr. Cranford is currently writing a screenplay entitled Charley Mast, based on the Kinship Concealed book.
She will share with us what she has learned in her new career as a writer and the challenges of co-writing and addressing the diversity within our own family stories.
Come and bring a friend to this free public program.
When: Saturday, November 11, 2017 at 1:30-3:30 p.m. Where: Larksfield Place, 7373 E. 29th St. N., Wichita KS (just west of Rock Rd. on the south side of 29th Street).
Park in the Visitors Center lot and enter the Welcome Entrance walking left through the dining room.