Meets in the adult
classroom at 11:30 am on the 3rd
Thursday of the month (except Oct and Nov 2019)
Note: October meeting will be Oct. 31,
2019
Note: November meeting is Nov. 14,
2019
No meeting in June or July, pending new venue.
Reading schedule for Oct. 2019 – Dec. 2020
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Date |
Book Title |
Author |
Moderator |
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Oct 31 |
The Invention of Nature |
Andrea Wulf |
Tom Shelton & Page Luttrell |
|
Nov 14 |
New and Selected Poems or any other collection |
Mary Oliver |
Bob Ambrose |
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Dec 19 |
Winter World |
Bernd Heinrich |
Dale Hoyt |
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Jan 16 |
Let Us Now Praise Famous Gullies: |
Paul S. Sutter |
Linda Chafin |
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Feb 20 |
Buzz, Sting, Bite |
Anne Sverdrup-Thygeson |
Bob Ambrose, Avis Winfield, Eugenia Thompson |
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Mar 19 |
Slime: |
Ruth Kassinger |
Dale Hoyt |
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Apr 16 |
The Genius of Birds |
Jennifer Ackerman |
Eugenia Thompson |
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May 21 |
Henry David Thoreau: A Life |
Laura Dassow Walls. |
Jackie Elsner |
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Aug 20 |
Fire Season |
Phillip Connors |
Catherine Chastain, Ted LaMontagne |
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Sep 17 |
Stronghold |
Tucker Malarky |
Avis Winfield |
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Oct 15 |
Crow Planet |
Lyanda Lynn Haupt |
Linda Chafin |
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Nov 19 |
Bringing |
Douglas Tallamy |
Kathy Stege |
|
Dec 17 |
Drifting into Darien |
Janisse Ray |
Tom Shelton |
|
Dec 17 |
Ecology of a Cracker Childhood |
Janisse Ray |
Gary Crider |
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List of books read from Nov.,2018 through Aug., 2019
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Date |
Book Title |
Author |
Moderator |
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(and Outside) a Bird’s Egg |
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3/21 |
Marsh Mud and |
Evelyn Sherr |
Dale Hoyt |
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4/18 |
The Woods Stretched |
John Lane & Gerald Thurmond |
Dale Hoyt |
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5/16 |
Summer for the Gods |
Ed Larson |
Tom Shelton |
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6/20 |
The Home Place |
J. Drew Lanham |
Tom Shelton |
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7/18 |
Sand County Almanac |
Aldo Leopold |
Eugenia |
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8/15 |
The Hidden Life of |
Peter Wohlleben |
Avis |
Here is the list of all books that were suggested in our organizational meeting in 2018. The group voted for these and the 9 titles with the most votes were selected. The nine titles already discussed are highlighted.
|
Book Title |
Author |
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The Sixth Extinction |
Elizabeth |
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My First Summer in the Sierra |
John Muir |
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Mycelium Running |
Paul Stamets |
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Founding Gardeners |
Andrea Wulf |
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The Brother Gardeners: A Generation of Gentlemen Naturalists |
Andrea Wulf |
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The Hidden Life of Trees |
Peter Wohlleben |
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Pilgrim at Tinker Creek |
Annie Dillard |
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The Overstory |
Richard Powers |
|
Ecology of a Cracker Childhood |
Janisse Ray |
|
The Invention of Nature |
Andrea Wulf |
|
The Ends of the World |
Peter Brannen |
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Life and Death of the Salt Marsh |
John & |
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Darwin’s Origin of Species (Books that changed the |
Janet Brown |
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The Most Perfect Thing |
Tim Birkhead |
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Travels of William Bartram |
Mark VanDoren, |
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A Yearning Toward Wildness (Thoreau quotations) |
ed. By Tim Homan |
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The Road of a Naturalist |
Donald Culross Peattie |
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The Forest Unseen |
David George Haskell |
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A Sand County Almanac |
Aldo Leopold |
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H is for Hawk |
Helen MacDonald |
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American Wolf |
Nate Blakeslee |
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The World of a Saltmarsh |
Charles Seabrook |
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Marsh Mud and Mummichogs |
Evelyn Sherr |
|
The Woods Stretched for Miles: New Nature Writing from |
John Lane & |
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Curious World of Calpurnia Tate |
Jacqueline Kelly |
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Waiting for Aphrodite |
Sue Hubbell |
|
Cathedral of the Wild |
Boyd Vartey |
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The Control of Nature |
John McPhee |
|
Mountains of the Heart |
Scott Weidensaul |
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The Songs of Trees |
David George |
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The Home Place |
Drew Lanham |
|
Summer of the Gods: The Scopes Trial, America’s Continuing |
Ed Larson |
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Drifting into Darien |
Janisse Ray |