Thursday, Feb. 18, 2016
07:00 PM – 08:30 PM
US/Central
Guests are invited to enjoy an evening of compelling stories about Jane Blaffer Owen (1915-2010) – Houstonian, philanthropist, supporter of The Jung Center, and friend to Carolyn Grant Fay – who spent six decades preserving and revitalizing the town of New Harmony, Indiana. New Harmony is the site of two of America’s significant communal experiments: the religiously motivated German Harmonie Society and the secular Robert Owen/William Maclure community. As Blaffer Owen transformed the town with commissioned works of architecture, art, and landscape, the town transformed her. It was a place where, she says, “My roots could sink deeply and spread.”
Guests are invited to join Blaffer Owen’s priest and friend, J. Pittman McGehee and her personal editor, Nancy Mangum McCaslin, to learn more about this vibrant woman and her memoir, New Harmony, Indiana: Like a River, Not a Lake.
About the Presentation
Dates: Thursday, Feb 18, 7:00 pm-8:30 pm
J. Pittman McGehee, DD, is an Episcopal priest, author, poet, and Jungian analyst in private practice. He lectures frequently on analytic psychology and is a member of The Jung Center Board of Trustees.
Nancy Mangum McCaslin is a Houston-based freelance editor who provides editing, research, and coaching services to authors in diverse fields. As a writer, she has used her expertise to assist non-profit organizations with grant writing, newsletters, and journals and has provided seminars to at-risk youth and home educated students. She is a graduate of the Honors College at the University of Houston. She also spends part of her time in New Harmony, Indiana, where she serves on the Advisory Board of Historic New Harmony.
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