‘Stories connect us all’
Orangeburg writer participates in ‘Communal Pen’ series
Writer Connie Johnson from the Orangeburg Times & Democrat participated in the second “Communal Pen” workshop, which was Dec. 1 at Voorhees College in Denmark. Appropriately for her profession, she wrote about the experience for the paper. If you’re considering making it to the next workshop, in Newberry, you’ll want to check out her story.
The Communal Pen workshop reminded Aiken resident Chris Hall that “stories connect us all. Our stories remind us that we have more in common than we differ.”
“Although I’m not a native of this area, I have grown to love this place. I want to use my art to help bring it up out of the ashes,” said Ashley Jordan, a 2012 graduate and current employee of Denmark Technical College.
“Communal Pen” is presented by the S.C. Arts Commission/Art of Community: Rural S.C. and South Carolina Humanities and is held in conjunction with the traveling Smithsonian exhibit “Crossroads: Change in Rural America.”