| RYERSON
READS ~ season 5
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Wednesdays,
7:30 - 9:00 PM
$15 per
person per session or $10 FRW members
~Sign up for the entire series~
$45 per person or $30 FRW members
Benjamin
Goluboff,
a professor of English at Lake forest College, will lead lively
discussions on the classics of American nature literature.
 September
17, 2008
Return
to Wild America:
A Yearlong Search for the Continent's Natural Soul
by Scott Weidensaul
A modern naturalist retraces Roger Tory Peterson's 1953
trek from Newfoundland to Alaska, offering a detailed,
thought-provoking account of the state of Ameria's landscapes. |
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November
12, 2008
A
Naturalist Buys an Old Farm
by Edwin Way Teale
Unhappy with life in a Long Island subdivision, Edwin
Way Teale purchased "Trailwood", a 130-acre
homestead in rural Connecticut where he could live closer
to the land he loved. "All the years of existence
represent a long love affair with the earth, this earth,
the only earth we know.". |
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January
14, 2009
A
Country Year:
Living the Questions
by Sue Hubbell
After the end of a 30-year marriage, the writer comes
to her senses and finds solace learning beekeeping on
a farm in the Ozarks. |
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March
11, 2009
Flight
Maps
by Jennifer Price
Nature indoors and outdoors in contemporary America
- from movies, to cooking to shopping malls...and even
to pink flamingos, this is an enjoyable study of the
way Americans connect with nature. |
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See
Ryerson
Woods at the
Lake County Forest Preserve web site for a complete list
of our progams and events. |
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