2nd Annual
Western Reserve Studies Symposium
AUTHORS AND ARTISTS ON THE RESERVE
Lake Erie College
Painesville, Ohio
September 19, 1987
Prologue
Interpreters of the Western Reserve
Geoge Knepper, University of Akron
Writings of Western Reserve Women
Gladys Haddad, Lake Erie College
Poems of Place
David Citino, The Ohio State University
Literary Realism on the Reserve, or "Huck on the Cuyahoga"
David R. Anderson, Hiram College
Hart Crane and his Western Reserve Roots
Vivian Pemberton, Kent State University - Trumbull
"Love and Marriage in the Western Reserve: The Garfield Case"
John Shaw, Hiram College
The Cleveland School: Artists of the Western Reserve
William G. Scheele, Northeast Ohio Art Museum
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The 1986 Western Reserve Studies Symposium "Authors and Artists on the Reserve" celebrated an anniversary. It was 200 years ago, September 14, 1786 when the state of Connecticut ceded the area that became part of the Northwest Territory. Connecticut retained responsibility for the use of the lands, hence, the designation "The Western Reserve."
Lake Erie Colleve at the eastern end of this area has a history that dates to1847 and the founding of the Willoughby Female Seminary, its predecessor. In 1856, the Lake Erie Female Seminary was chartered and opened in 1859. In 1898, it achieved college status but carried its past with it in its name -- Lake Erie College and Seminary until 1909 when it was known as Lake Erie College.
The Lake Erie College Press Western Reserve Studies: A Journal of Regional History and Culture with the support of the Ohio Humanities Council and the Harriet B. Storrs Fund publishes the proceedings of the Symposium "Authors and Artists On the Reserve" for which Gladys Haddad of Lake Erie College and David Anderson of Hiram College are co-editors.
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LAKE ERIE COLLEGE PRESS
Editorial Board
Gladys Haddad, Director
Egidio Lunardi, Business Manager
Paul Belanger
Harold Fink
James Liotta
Maria Martinez
Jake Rufli
Richard Sokolowski
WESTERN RESERVE STUDIES: A JOURNAL OF REGIONAL HISTORY AND CULTURE is an annual publication of the LAKE ERIE COLLEGE PRESS.
For more information call Professor Gladys Haddad, Symposium Director, at
Case Western Reserve University (216) 368-4117,
or email Professor Haddad
