{"id":22279,"date":"2023-10-24T14:37:15","date_gmt":"2023-10-24T18:37:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.bc3.edu\/?p=22279"},"modified":"2024-04-03T16:35:44","modified_gmt":"2024-04-03T20:35:44","slug":"bc3-selects-ohio-novelist-for-4th-northern-appalachia-reading-series-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.bc3.edu\/bc3-selects-ohio-novelist-for-4th-northern-appalachia-reading-series-event\/","title":{"rendered":"BC3 selects Ohio novelist for 4th Northern Appalachia Reading Series event"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"22279\" class=\"elementor elementor-22279\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-de72f08 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"de72f08\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-10ebedf elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"10ebedf\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! elementor - v3.21.0 - 08-05-2024 *\/\n.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-stacked .elementor-drop-cap{background-color:#69727d;color:#fff}.elementor-widget-text-editor.elementor-drop-cap-view-framed .elementor-drop-cap{color:#69727d;border:3px solid;background-color:transparent}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap{margin-top:8px}.elementor-widget-text-editor:not(.elementor-drop-cap-view-default) .elementor-drop-cap-letter{width:1em;height:1em}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap{float:left;text-align:center;line-height:1;font-size:50px}.elementor-widget-text-editor .elementor-drop-cap-letter{display:inline-block}<\/style>\t\t\t\t<p>(Butler, PA) \u201cTerrified\u201d as he was of his imposing mathematics teacher, fourth-grader Mitch James nevertheless sat in class printing with his pencil on loose-leaf paper not equations but his rendition of \u201cThe Tell-Tale Heart\u201d by Edgar Allan Poe.<\/p><p>\u201cHe caught me,\u201d James said, \u201cand took me out in the hallway.\u201d<\/p><p>James was in tears, expecting to be scolded within earshot of his 15 classmates.<\/p><p>But Bill Hendricks read those 2\u00bd loose-leaf pages, then made a deal with the 9-year-old that day.<\/p><p>\u201cHe said if I wrote a new story every Monday, then I wouldn\u2019t be in trouble for what I did,\u201d James said. \u201cAnd so every Monday I would write a new story and read it to the class. I remember that moment because it was the first time that anyone had ever given me any attention for something I had done well.\u201d<\/p><p>Dr. Mitch James, 40, of Mentor, Ohio, gained attention in December for something he had done well when Sunbury Press published his first novel, \u201cSeldom Seen: A Miner\u2019s Tale.\u201d<\/p><p>\u201cIt gives you confidence that you are not wasting your time,\u201d James said, \u201cthat people want to engage with your world.\u201d<\/p><p>Visitors to Butler County Community College can engage with James <a href=\"https:\/\/news.bc3.edu\/event\/the-northern-appalachia-reading-series-fall-2023\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">on Thursday when the author featured in BC3\u2019s Northern Appalachia Reading Series reads from his novel at 6 p.m. in the Heaton Family Learning Commons.<\/a><\/p><p>The event in BC3\u2019s $6.4 million, 7-year-old academic and community library is free, open to the public and will include light refreshments.<\/p><p>An open-mic session will precede James\u2019 reading, said Mike Dittman, a BC3 English professor who organizes the college\u2019s Northern Appalachia Reading Series. Copies of \u201cSeldom Seen: A Miner\u2019s Tale\u201d will be available for purchase for $19.99 cash and signed by James after the reading.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3d3b7c3 elementor-blockquote--skin-quotation elementor-blockquote--button-color-official elementor-widget elementor-widget-blockquote\" data-id=\"3d3b7c3\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"blockquote.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! elementor-pro - v3.21.0 - 30-04-2024 *\/\n@charset \"UTF-8\";.entry-content blockquote.elementor-blockquote:not(.alignright):not(.alignleft),.entry-summary blockquote.elementor-blockquote{margin-right:0;margin-left:0}.elementor-widget-blockquote blockquote{margin:0;padding:0;outline:0;font-size:100%;vertical-align:baseline;background:transparent;quotes:none;border:0;font-style:normal;color:#3f444b}.elementor-widget-blockquote blockquote 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class=\"elementor-blockquote\">\n\t\t\t<p class=\"elementor-blockquote__content\">\n\t\t\t\t\u201cIt gives you confidence ... that people want to engage with your world.\u201d \t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-q-footer\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<cite class=\"elementor-blockquote__author\">Dr. Mitch James, author<\/cite>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/blockquote>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-82708be elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"82708be\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t<style>\/*! elementor - v3.21.0 - 08-05-2024 *\/\n.elementor-widget-image{text-align:center}.elementor-widget-image a{display:inline-block}.elementor-widget-image a img[src$=\".svg\"]{width:48px}.elementor-widget-image img{vertical-align:middle;display:inline-block}<\/style>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<figure class=\"wp-caption\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"814\" height=\"570\" src=\"https:\/\/news.bc3.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/BC3_Northern-Appalachia_Rosen_Angel_b.jpg\" class=\"attachment-jnews-1140x570 size-jnews-1140x570 wp-image-22285\" alt=\"a group of people listening to a reading\" data-full-width=\"2000\" data-full-height=\"1400\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<figcaption class=\"widget-image-caption wp-caption-text\">A portion of a crowd inside Butler County Community College\u2019s Heaton Family Learning Commons listens to Angel Rosen read from her books \u201cAurelia\u201d and \u201cBlake\u201d during a Northern Appalachia Reading Series event in April 2022. Rosen, of Worthington, Armstrong County, is a 2014 graduate of BC3. Dr. Mitch James, of Mentor, Ohio, will read from his debut novel \u201cSeldom Seen: A Miner\u2019s Tale\u201d during a Northern Appalachia Reading Series event at BC3 on Thursday.<\/figcaption>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/figure>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-f163df2 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"f163df2\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>James earned a bachelor\u2019s degree in English from Eastern Illinois University in Charleston, and became inspired to write \u201cSeldom Seen: A Miner\u2019s Tale\u201d while researching the mining industry at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, where he achieved a master\u2019s degree in literature and a doctorate degree in composition.<\/p>\n\n<p>Brander, the protagonist in \u201cSeldom Seen: A Miner\u2019s Tale,\u201d escapes a difficult relationship with his family by moving to Alaska after graduating from high school. Two years later, Brander returns to Illinois to find his mother has died and his childhood home about to be auctioned by his eldest brother.<\/p>\n\n<p>\u201cHe\u2019s sort of wayward,\u201d James said.<\/p>\n\n<p>Brander will meet a man named Richter, who promises him that the answers to life lay in Seldom Seen Coal Mine. Brander moves to Central Pennsylvania, takes a job at the mine and fails at every attempt to amend his life, James said.<\/p>\n\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s rural, it\u2019s dark, it\u2019s dirty and it\u2019s violent,\u201d James said about his novel. \u201cAnd it is, I hope at some level, representative of parts of rural communities that the country doesn\u2019t want to see, or does not see.\u201d<\/p>\n\n<p>What readers will see by reading \u201cSeldom Seen: A Miner\u2019s Tale\u201d is \u201cthe humanity in the characters who are living in rural communities,\u201d James said. \u201cWe see their strength. We see their resilience.\u201d<\/p>\n\n<p>And their work ethic, a quality James said is likely to resonate with an audience of western Pennsylvanians at BC3.<\/p>\n\n<p>\u201cCoal mining is gritty,\u201d James said. \u201cIt is blue-collar. Salt-of-the-earth. I think it will connect with people. They are going to know people who are like the characters in the book. They are going to think about their fathers or their mothers or their uncles or their cousins. It\u2019s going to feel like home.\u201d<\/p>\n\n<p>Dittman\u2019s grandfather worked in a coal mine in western Pennsylvania.<\/p>\n\n<p>\u201cA lot of people around here have that connection to mining,\u201d Dittman said. \u201cMitch\u2019s reading will give people a chance to hear an author speak to them about their world and recognize that what we do here in Butler County and nearby is important.\u201d<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-3fcbc02 elementor-blockquote--skin-quotation elementor-blockquote--button-color-official elementor-widget elementor-widget-blockquote\" data-id=\"3fcbc02\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"blockquote.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<blockquote class=\"elementor-blockquote\">\n\t\t\t<p class=\"elementor-blockquote__content\">\n\t\t\t\t\u201cCoal mining is gritty. It is blue-collar. Salt-of-the-earth. I think it will connect with people. They are going to know people who are like the characters in the book. They are going to think about their fathers or their mothers or their uncles or their cousins. It\u2019s going to feel like home.\u201d\t\t\t<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-q-footer\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<cite class=\"elementor-blockquote__author\">Dr. Mitch James, author<\/cite>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/blockquote>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-61410a8 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"61410a8\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>James first attended Lake Land College, a community college in Mattoon, Ill., where as a 19-year-old he lived briefly in his car.<\/p><p>\u201cIf there are any versions of me out there, someone else who may want to write or finds out later that they want to write, I think it\u2019s important for them to see somebody who used to live in a car doing things that he has always wanted to do since he was a kid,\u201d James said.<\/p><p>Students in BC3\u2019s writers club are invited to read from their works during the open-mic session, Dittman said. Club members this fall are enrolled in BC3\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bc3.edu\/programs-classes\/degrees-certificates\/business-entrepreneurship\/business-management.html\">business management<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bc3.edu\/programs-classes\/degrees-certificates\/computer-technology\/computer-science.html\">computer science<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bc3.edu\/programs-classes\/degrees-certificates\/education\/early-childhood-education.html\">early childhood education (Pre K-4)<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bc3.edu\/programs-classes\/degrees-certificates\/liberal-arts\/general-studies-degree.html\">general studies<\/a> programs, according to Jacqueline Kunkel, a former faculty member at BC3 who with Dittman advises the club.<\/p><p>The Northern Appalachia Reading Series event is the college\u2019s fourth in two years.<\/p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.bc3.edu\/horror-thriller-takes-bc3-stage-oct-26\/\">Dittman<\/a> read from his horror-thriller \u201cWho Holds the Devil\u201d in October 2022. <a href=\"https:\/\/news.bc3.edu\/bc3-alum-picked-for-april-20-northern-appalachia-reading-series-event\/\">Angel Rosen<\/a>, a 2014 BC3 graduate from Worthington, Armstrong County, read from her poetry books \u201cAurelia\u201d and \u201cBlake\u201d in April 2022. And <a href=\"https:\/\/news.bc3.edu\/bc3-plans-2-workshops-reading-in-free-northern-appalachia-reading-series\/\">Damian Dressick<\/a>, of Slippery Rock, read from his novel \u201c40 Patchtown\u201d and from his collection \u201cFables of the Deconstruction\u201d in November 2021.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-59a2f0c e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"59a2f0c\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-c685ae2 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"c685ae2\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-23ec541 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"23ec541\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1400\" src=\"https:\/\/news.bc3.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/BC3_Northern-Appalachia_Rosen_Angel_a.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-image-22284\" alt=\"\" data-full-width=\"2000\" data-full-height=\"1400\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-99a38ab elementor-hidden-mobile elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"99a38ab\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Authors featured in Butler County Community College\u2019s Northern Appalachia Reading Series since 2021 are, from top left, Angel Rosen, of Worthington, Armstrong County; Mike Dittman, a BC3 English professor; and Dr. Damian Dressick, of Slippery Rock. Rosen, a 2014 BC3 graduate, read from her books \u201cAurelia\u201d and \u201cBlake\u201d in April 2022; Dittman, from his horror-thriller \u201cWho Holds the Devil\u201d in October 2022; and Dressick, from his historical novel \u201c40 Patchtown\u201d and collection \u201cFables of the Deconstruction\u201d in November 2021.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-1ee1450 e-con-full e-flex e-con e-child\" data-id=\"1ee1450\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-144b7b9 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-child\" data-id=\"144b7b9\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-6832e5c elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"6832e5c\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1400\" src=\"https:\/\/news.bc3.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/BC3_Northern-Appalachia_Dittman_Mike.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-image-22281\" alt=\"\" data-full-width=\"2000\" data-full-height=\"1400\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-39dc5a0 elementor-widget elementor-widget-image\" data-id=\"39dc5a0\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"image.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1400\" src=\"https:\/\/news.bc3.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/10\/BC3_Northern-Appalachia_Dressick_Damian.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-image-22282\" alt=\"\" data-full-width=\"2000\" data-full-height=\"1400\" \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-79c1a4d elementor-hidden-desktop elementor-hidden-tablet elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"79c1a4d\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Authors featured in Butler County Community College\u2019s Northern Appalachia Reading Series since 2021 are, from top, Angel Rosen, of Worthington, Armstrong County; Mike Dittman, a BC3 English professor; and Dr. Damian Dressick, of Slippery Rock. Rosen, a 2014 BC3 graduate, read from her books \u201cAurelia\u201d and \u201cBlake\u201d in April 2022; Dittman, from his horror-thriller \u201cWho Holds the Devil\u201d in October 2022; and Dressick, from his historical novel \u201c40 Patchtown\u201d and collection \u201cFables of the Deconstruction\u201d in November 2021.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-9b92e2e e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"9b92e2e\" data-element_type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-0fdd63d elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"0fdd63d\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-widget-container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>James, who once stood before fourth-graders on Mondays following his hallway discussion with Bill Hendricks, today stands before collegians as a composition and literature professor at Lakeland Community College, Kirtland, Ohio.<\/p>\n\n<p>\u201cI remember my classmates as being very attentive,\u201d James said. \u201cNobody made fun of me. Nobody laughed at me. They would all applaud. 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