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The Nurturing Nature Of Nature, Katie F. Mercer Oct 2018

The Nurturing Nature Of Nature, Katie F. Mercer

Student Publications

This piece of creative non-fiction describes my relationship with National Parks and the way their beauty and power has shaped my life.


You've Gotta Read This: Summer Reading At Musselman Library (2017), Musselman Library Jul 2017

You've Gotta Read This: Summer Reading At Musselman Library (2017), Musselman Library

You’ve Gotta Read This: Summer Reading at Musselman Library

Each year, Musselman Library asks Gettysburg College faculty, staff, and administrators to help create a suggested summer reading list. Our goal is to inspire students and the rest of our community to take time in the summer to sit back, relax, and read.

With the 2017 collection, we again bring together recommendations from across our campus—the books, movies, TV shows, and podcasts that have meant something special to us over the past year. 118 faculty, administrators and staff offer up 218 recommendations.

We include five special features this year. Two of our regular columnists return once again: James Udden and …


You've Gotta Read This: Summer Reading At Musselman Library (2016), Musselman Library Jul 2016

You've Gotta Read This: Summer Reading At Musselman Library (2016), Musselman Library

You’ve Gotta Read This: Summer Reading at Musselman Library

Each year, Musselman Library asks Gettysburg College faculty, staff, and administrators to help create a suggested summer reading list. Our goal is to inspire students and the rest of our community to take time in the summer to sit back, relax, and read.

With the 2016 collection, we again bring together recommendations from across our campus—the books, movies, TV shows, and even musicals that have meant something special to us over the past year. 124 faculty, administrators and staff offer up a record number of 226 recommendations.

We include five special features this year. Two of our regular columnists are …


You've Gotta Read This: Summer Reading At Musselman Library (2015), Musselman Library Jul 2015

You've Gotta Read This: Summer Reading At Musselman Library (2015), Musselman Library

You’ve Gotta Read This: Summer Reading at Musselman Library

Each year Musselman Library asks Gettysburg College faculty, staff, and administrators to help create a suggested summer reading list to inspire students and the rest of our campus community to take time in the summer to sit back, relax, and read. These summer reading picks are guaranteed to offer much adventure, drama, and fun!

With the 2015 collection, we again bring together recommendations from across the Gettysburg College campus—the books, movies, TV shows, graphic novels and even podcasts that have meant something special to us over the past year. Ninety faculty, administrators and staff offer up a list of 175 …


It’S Not Something We Speak Of, Tucker B. Snow Apr 2015

It’S Not Something We Speak Of, Tucker B. Snow

The Mercury

No abstract provided.


Playing House, Taylor L. Andrews Apr 2015

Playing House, Taylor L. Andrews

The Mercury

No abstract provided.


Dancing With The Dark, Lori A. Atinizian Apr 2015

Dancing With The Dark, Lori A. Atinizian

The Mercury

No abstract provided.


Freshwater, Rachel L. Martinelli Apr 2015

Freshwater, Rachel L. Martinelli

The Mercury

No abstract provided.


Graham, Haley G. Weaver Apr 2015

Graham, Haley G. Weaver

The Mercury

No abstract provided.


The Touch, Christiana L. Fattorini Apr 2015

The Touch, Christiana L. Fattorini

The Mercury

No abstract provided.


The Fall, Valerie C. Nigg Apr 2015

The Fall, Valerie C. Nigg

The Mercury

No abstract provided.


Sustained, Drew T. Ciminera Apr 2015

Sustained, Drew T. Ciminera

The Mercury

No abstract provided.


On Getting Dressed, Sharon L. Stephenson Dec 2014

On Getting Dressed, Sharon L. Stephenson

Physics and Astronomy Faculty Publications

I lean against the chalkboard and wait for the young woman to speak. I feel especially put together because I am wearing an outfit; I bought all three pieces at the same time, indicating my financial stability and dedication to appearance.

It is a Friday, and this introductory physics student is casual in her sorority letter jersey, jeans and sneakers. Her hair is long, her skin porcelain; these traits do not distinguish her from her sorority sisters. She is exceptional, however, in her habit of obsessively leaning forward in her front-row desk, as if preparing to dive over the top. …


Compagno Di Viaggio, Sophia K. Reid May 2014

Compagno Di Viaggio, Sophia K. Reid

The Mercury

No abstract provided.


The Lost World Of The Past, Sophia K. Reid May 2014

The Lost World Of The Past, Sophia K. Reid

The Mercury

No abstract provided.


Atticus, Peter W. Rosenberger May 2014

Atticus, Peter W. Rosenberger

The Mercury

No abstract provided.


Newburgh, Rachel E. Barber May 2014

Newburgh, Rachel E. Barber

The Mercury

No abstract provided.


The First Run, Darcie E. Connors May 2014

The First Run, Darcie E. Connors

The Mercury

No abstract provided.


Black & Blue, Anthony Mccomiskey May 2014

Black & Blue, Anthony Mccomiskey

The Mercury

No abstract provided.


Doe Dose, Sharon L. Stephenson Apr 2014

Doe Dose, Sharon L. Stephenson

Physics and Astronomy Faculty Publications

A plastic fawn, palm-sized, lives on my office desk. He gazes at my open office door. His right front hoof is raised, poised for haste.

The deer of my Mississippi childhood were the Virginia whitetail, Odocoileus virginianus virginianus. As a child ten years or so, fresh from reading Felix Salten’s Bambi, I rested my forehead against backseat car windows and took in miles and miles of Mississippi forest. Commutes between school and our isolated house were long. I imagined myself a whitetailed doe, keeping up with the car through those woods, a blur of velvet hide and muscle. …


The Mercury 2014 Jan 2014

The Mercury 2014

The Mercury

No abstract provided.


Hold The Cracks, Chandra R. Kirkland Apr 2013

Hold The Cracks, Chandra R. Kirkland

Student Publications

My medicine has its own special place in our downstairs bathroom. It rests on a little metal shelf by the shower, standing among the bright orange bottles of multivitamins, B12, vitamin C, and calcium chews. My mother is obsessed with natural healing practices – she slathers on bitter goldenseal for infections, feeds us capsules of powdery white willow bark for headaches, and strange clay mixed with water for stomach aches. My little bottle of pink goo looks lost and confused amidst the hand-written labels and bottles of earth-colored liquids.

I feel guilty taking it, but almost proud at the same …


Just Another Girl, Julia D. Marshella Apr 2013

Just Another Girl, Julia D. Marshella

Student Publications

A non-fiction piece that explores the causes of the author’s depression while in college. While she is able to pinpoint specific events that have led to her unhappiness, she realizes that accepting her life in spite of these obstacles will allow her to move forward.


Cultured, Cara L. Dochat Apr 2013

Cultured, Cara L. Dochat

Student Publications

This memoir piece comprises three parts, each of which tells a humorous and perhaps slightly embarrassing story of interpersonal upsets the narrator experienced while studying abroad in Europe. Their telling exposes the narrator as a naïve American tourist, despite her conscious attempts to be culturally sensitive and respectful. The intent of this piece was neither to make a political statement about being American in Europe, nor to present yet another trite account “the best four months of [my] life.” While my primary goal was to share these stories for their entertainment value (if self-effacing), my hope was to transform the …


Sanguine, Kathryn Rhett Jan 2012

Sanguine, Kathryn Rhett

English Faculty Publications

Health care in America: even my doctor lines up for the community multiphasic blood screening, rather than going to the regular lab.

It costs thirty-two dollars for the usual screen, plus ten dollars for thyroid, or PSA or B-12. The blood-drawing used to be held at the local rec park building. Now it’s at the county emergency services building, outside of town on a brand-new winding country road. They could just as well hold it at the public library, or firehouse, or agricultural center—any large room usable for voting, or the traveling reptile show, could be set up for phlebotomy. …


Wayward, Kathryn Rhett Jan 2011

Wayward, Kathryn Rhett

English Faculty Publications

It’s hard to imagine, now, how it was that I took up with that boy in South Carolina, but facts are facts. William Buchanan Redmond was lawless and drawling, full of sideways glances and outrageous proposals. He went by Cannon.

One night on Hilton Head Island, where I was staying with a friend’s family (thanks to private school I had friends with houses on Nantucket, etcetera, though I lived in a modest house with my mother and sister that we were renovating to resell), he approached me at an outdoor concert. A guitarist was playing a sing-along rendition of “Take …


Like Father, Like Son, Paul W. Tanasoca Jan 2011

Like Father, Like Son, Paul W. Tanasoca

The Mercury

No abstract provided.


Remembering The Day, Tina Cochran Jan 2011

Remembering The Day, Tina Cochran

The Mercury

No abstract provided.


On Writing, Hannah J. Sawyer Jan 2011

On Writing, Hannah J. Sawyer

The Mercury

No abstract provided.


Trapped In A Passing Storm, Chandra R. Kirkland Jan 2011

Trapped In A Passing Storm, Chandra R. Kirkland

The Mercury

No abstract provided.