2008 Woodie Awards
Marshall Festival '05 remembered
Alyce Dierickx
Issue date: 11/2/05 Section: News
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The festival opened the evening of Sunday, Oct. 23 with a potluck dinner and the welcoming address by SMSU Professor Jack Hickerson. He acknowledged Marshall Festival '05 Director Judy Wilson, Assistant Director Carol VonAhn, Administrative Assistant of the English Department Sandy Mosch, the English Club members, and all who worked to coordinate and bring the festival to reality.
The evening unfolded to the Sutter Brothers, Ross and Bart, accompanying each other in readings of poetry and music.
This was a beckoning to the events of the week to come.
The focus for the events was on rural authors and artists. This provided a broad and diverse range within which the presenters shared their works.
On Monday, an afternoon performance with Russell Svenningsen conducting the SMSU Concert Choir featured music composed for the Marshall Festival, by resident composer Dr. Peter Lothringer, accompanied by pianist Pamela Gervais and with special guest soloist-contralto, Shirlee Gilmore. The audience crowded round to experience this outstanding performance in the commons area of the SMSU Student Center.
Author Tom Montag shared his Middlewestern Project Wednesday afternoon in the new Whipple Art Gallery of the campus library. His candid, "Rockwellian" observations of rural people and his talents for storytelling kept his audience captive and wanting more. Montag presented the human nature of his subjects, including both, their light and dark sides.