Windstone Farm
Linlathen
2025 Linlathen Lectures
Free Public Event
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Our 2025 Speakers
A.S. “PETE” PETERSON of The Rabbit Room (which seeks to foster Christ-centred community and spiritual formation through music, story, and art), is the Artistic Director of Rabbit Room Theatre and the Publisher for Rabbit Room Press, based in Nashville, Tennessee. He is the author of the Revolutionary War adventure novel The Fiddler’s Gun and its sequel Fiddler’s Green, as well as numerous short stories. As a playwright he has published the Civil War musical The Battle of Franklin, a critically-acclaimed stage adaptation of Frankenstein, an adaptation of Ten Boom’s The Hiding Place (finalist for Best New Production, 2020 Houston Theater Awards), and in 2024 a riveting production of Dickens’ A Christmas Carol. Pete has also has edited work for Walter Wangerin, Phillip Yancey, and Malcolm Guite.
JENNIFER TRAFTON is a storyteller and artist with a passion for exploring the intersections of faith, creativity, and the arts. After her graduate work explored George MacDonald's influence on Christian views of the imagination, she was managing editor of Christian History & Biography magazine and a curriculum writer and editor for the StoneWorks Global Arts Initiative. For over a decade Jennifer has been a regular conference speaker, writer, teacher, editor, and illustrator for the Rabbit Room creative community. Since her first two highly-lauded novels for children, The Rise and Fall of Mount Majestic and Henry and the Chalk Dragon, she has collaborated on or contributed to a wide array of projects, including The Wingfeather Tales, The Lost Tales of Sir Galahad, Every Moment Holy, Vol. III, and J. R. R. Tolkien and the Arts: A Theology of Subcreation. She is now in the completion stages of a book about the artist-missionary Lilias Trotter (B&H Publishing, 2025).
We look forward to seeing you there!
Join us for continued conversation and drinks and nibbles after the lecture.