This Hometown Voices event is a special collaboration with the Long-term Ecological Reflections Project (LTERP) and will include an orientation to the project and a reading by its conceiver, Ian Marshall, as well as brief readings by several project participants, including Julia Spicher Kasdorf, Carolyn Mahan, Alison Condie Jaenicke, and Amanda Passmore-Ott.

The Long-term Ecological Reflections Project (LTERP) was founded in 2006 as a 100-year “study in place.” It seeks to record what happens at eight locations in and around Penn State’s Shaver’s Creek Environmental Center over the course of a full century — through the lens of authors and artists from a variety of disciplines. Over the course of the project’s first 20 years, more than 25 participants have contributed their reflections to the Creek Journals, with the goal of recording a piece of the next century’s history in some fashion so that future generations can better learn the story of this place.

For more information and to view the Creek Journals, visit: https://www.shaverscreek.org/about-us/long-term-ecological-reflections-project/