July 11th Jubilant Thicket: Winkler, Kowalski & Rushland Ridge
poet Benjamin Winkler
and
historian Matt Kowalski on Paris, May 1968
with local wines from Rushland Ridge Vineyard & Winery
Sunday, July 11th
7:00 pm
Molly’s Bookstore (1010 S. 9th St. Phila, PA 19147 in the Italian Market)
$5 (includes wine)
Open reading to follow
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BENJAMIN WINKLER was raised in the Philadelphia area and attends Temple University. The editor of Splitleaves Press, earlier this year he published a chapbook of his own, entitled Whereupon. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in The Monongahela Review, In Process, The Apiary, and Otoliths, among other journals.
MATTHEW KOWALSKI received his BA in History from LaSalle University in 2005 and his MA in Modern European History from Villanova in 2007. He has been a member of the FYWP faculty at Temple since 2007 and also teaches courses in European/Global history at CCP and Villanova. His research interests center on Soviet-Russian social and labor history, but he has also taught and researched topics in Modern French history, Modern German history, Comparative Revolutions, & Comparative Imperialisms. He has published book reviews and articles in the Journal of World War One Studies, Russian Review, and the Journal of Cold War History.
RUSHLAND RIDGE VINEYARD & WINERY: The Ullman family began winegrowing in 1968. Ed and his father planted their first vines at Kings Oak Vineyards that same year. It was there, in Huntingdon Valley, Pennsylvania, that they started honing their winegrowing skills, a process continuing to this day. In 1986, Ed and his wife Lisa purchased Rushland Ridge Vineyards. That first year they started growing vines at Rushland Ridge. The first planting was one acre of French-American Hybrid, and Native American wine grapes. By 1991 their production enabled them to open their Pennsylvania limited winery. As of today, there are four acres of vineyards with Chardonnay, Cabernet Franc, & Chambourcin in the latest planting.
