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Hard Freight Editor-in-Chief Aidan Pellegrino welcomes the crowd.

Jared Frederick (in the foreground) dressed as a 1940s park ranger at the Civil War battleground at Gettysburg. Frederick, an assistant teaching professor of history at Penn State Altoona, will offer a lecture titled “The Unfinished Work: The Hidden History of Gettysburg and the Second World War” at 12:15 p.m. on Thursday, March 21, in the Fireside Lounge of the Slep Student Center.

Student Ishmael Bruney reads an original poem.

Student Emera Gregor reads from an original short story.

Student Emma Moniz reads an original poem.

Student Paige McCusker reads a poem by Mahmoud Darwish.

Student Kate Yoder, incoming Editor-in-Chief of Hard Freight, reads an original creative nonfiction essay.

Levi Custer performs a song on piano.

Student Josue Barahona-Rosales performs a song by Ed Sheeran.

Penn State Altoona Emeritus English professor Tom Liszka reads Edmund Spenser's Sonnet 54.