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SUMMARY:Nature Book Club: September
DESCRIPTION:Nature Book Club: September\n\n\n\nPlease note: This month we’re meeting at Mellody Farm Nature Preserve\, not Brushwood Center. \n\n\n\nThe Brushwood Nature Book Club is a space to talk about and explore nature literature in a friendly environment. Each meeting includes discussion\, creative writing\, and/or art activities to engage with the themes of the chosen book\, led by Brushwood’s Poet-in-Residence Kathryn Haydon\, and writer-artist Megan Donahue.   \n\n\n\nOur September book is Where the Deer and the Antelope Play\, by Nick Offerman. “The pastoral observations of one ignorant American who loves to walk outside\,” this book is a humorous and rousing set of literal and figurative sojourns as well as a mission statement about comprehending\, protecting\, and truly experiencing the outdoors\, fueled by a conversation Offerman had with Wendell Berry that inspired three journeys he undertook in 2019 and 2020. \n\n\n\n  \n\n\n\n\nREGISTER
URL:https://brushwoodcenter.org/event/nature-book-club-september-2/
LOCATION:Mellody Farm Nature Preserve – Lake Forest Open Lands\, 350 N. Waukegan Rd\, Lake Forest\, Illinois\, 60045
CATEGORIES:Book Event
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SUMMARY:Nature Book Club: August
DESCRIPTION:Nature Book Club: August\n\n\n\nPlease note: This month we’re meeting at Mellody Farm Nature Preserve\, not Brushwood Center. \n\n\n\nThe Brushwood Nature Book Club is a space to talk about and explore nature literature in a friendly environment. Each meeting includes discussion\, creative writing\, and/or art activities to engage with the themes of the chosen book\, led by Brushwood’s Poet-in-Residence Kathryn Haydon\, and writer-artist Megan Donahue.   \n\n\n\nThis summer\, we’re revisiting some of the classics of American nature literature and exploring how they resonate today.  \n\n\n\nOur August book is My First Summer in the Sierra\, by John Muir. It was published in 1911\, based on field notes from an 1869 trip Muir made to the Sierra Nevada\, traveling with a shepherd and flock of sheep. The book was influential in popularizing the (complicated) idea of an American wilderness\, and was crucial in building public support for the preservation of Yosemite National Park.  \n\n\n\n\nREGISTER
URL:https://brushwoodcenter.org/event/nature-book-club-august-2/
LOCATION:Mellody Farm Nature Preserve – Lake Forest Open Lands\, 350 N. Waukegan Rd\, Lake Forest\, Illinois\, 60045
CATEGORIES:Book Event
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SUMMARY:Nature Book Club: July
DESCRIPTION:Nature Book Club: July\n\n\n\nPlease note: This month we’re meeting at Mellody Farm Nature Preserve\, not Brushwood Center.  \n\n\n\nThe Brushwood Nature Book Club is a space to talk about and explore nature literature in a friendly environment. Each meeting includes discussion\, creative writing\, and/or art activities to engage with the themes of the chosen book\, led by Brushwood’s Poet-in-Residence Kathryn Haydon\, and writer-artist Megan Donahue.   \n\n\n\nThis summer\, we’re revisiting some of the classics of American nature literature and exploring how they resonate today.  \n\n\n\nOur July book is A Sand County Almanac: Sketches Here and There\, by Aldo Leopold. Through science\, history\, humor and prose\, Leopold uses A Sand County Almanac and its call for a land ethic to communicate the true connection between people and the natural world. First published in 1949\, it became one of the most venerated conservation books in the 20th century. \n\n\n\n\nREGISTER
URL:https://brushwoodcenter.org/event/nature-book-club-july/
LOCATION:Mellody Farm Nature Preserve – Lake Forest Open Lands\, 350 N. Waukegan Rd\, Lake Forest\, Illinois\, 60045
CATEGORIES:Book Event
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SUMMARY:Nature Book Club: April
DESCRIPTION:Nature Book Club: April\n\n\n\nThe Brushwood Nature Book Club is a space to talk about and explore nature literature in a friendly environment. Each meeting includes discussion\, creative writing\, and/or art activities to engage with the themes of the chosen book\, led by Brushwood’s Poet-in-Residence Kathryn Haydon\, and writer-artist Megan Donahue.   \n\n\n\nOur April book will be The Place of Tides\, by James Rebanks. This is a magical work of nonfiction in which James Rebanks reflects on a life-changing summer spent on a remote island off the coast of Norway\, where his only companion was an old woman who practiced the ancient tradition of collecting eiderdown from birds that nest on this remarkable landscape each year.  \n\n\n\nIt is the story of a unique and ancient landscape\, and of the woman who brought it back to life. It traces the pattern of her work from the rough\, isolated toil of bitter winter to the elation of the endless summer light\, when the birds leave behind their precious down for gathering\, like feathered gold. \n\n\n\nSlowly\, Rebanks begins to understand that this woman and her world are not what he had previously thought. What began as a journey of escape becomes an extraordinary lesson in self-knowledge and forgiveness. \n\n\n\n\nREGISTER
URL:https://brushwoodcenter.org/event/nature-book-club-april/
LOCATION:Brushwood Center at Ryerson Woods\, 21850 Riverwoods Rd.\, Riverwoods\, IL\, 60015\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Event
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SUMMARY:Nature Book Club: March
DESCRIPTION:Nature Book Club: March\n\n\n\nThe Brushwood Nature Book Club is a space to talk about and explore nature literature in a friendly environment. Each meeting includes discussion\, creative writing\, and art activities to engage with the themes of the chosen book\, led by Brushwood’s Poet-in-Residence Kathryn Haydon\, and writer-artist Megan Donahue.   \n\n\n\nOur March book will be Turning to Birds: The Power and Beauty of Noticing\, by Lili Taylor \n\n\n\nThrough a series of beautifully crafted essays\, Taylor shares her intimate encounters with the birds that have captured her heart and imagination—from tracking flitting woodpeckers through oak trees to spotting majestic blue jays perched on a Manhattan fire escape; from the exhilaration of witnessing a migratory flock from the top of the Empire State Building to the quiet joy of observing a nest of hatchlings in her own backyard. Through simply paying attention to birds\, Lili has been shown a parallel world that is wider and deeper\, one of constant change and movement\, full of life and the will to survive. \n\n\n\n\nREGISTER
URL:https://brushwoodcenter.org/event/nature-book-club-march/
LOCATION:Brushwood Center at Ryerson Woods\, 21850 Riverwoods Rd.\, Riverwoods\, IL\, 60015\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Event
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SUMMARY:Nature Book Club: February
DESCRIPTION:Nature Book Club: February\n\n\n\nThe Brushwood Nature Book Club is a space to talk about and explore nature literature in a friendly environment. Each meeting includes discussion\, creative writing\, and art activities to engage with the themes of the chosen book\, led by Brushwood’s Poet-in-Residence Kathryn Haydon\, and writer-artist Megan Donahue.  \n\n\n\nOur February book will be To Speak for the Trees To Speak for the Trees: My Life’s Journey from Ancient Celtic Wisdom to a Healing Vision of the Forest by botanist and biochemist Diana Beresford-Kroeger. \n\n\n\nDiana Beresford-Kroeger–a world-recognized botanist and medical biochemist–has revolutionized our understanding of the natural world with her startling insights into the hidden life of trees. In this riveting memoir\, she uncovers the roots of her discoveries in her extraordinary childhood in Ireland. Soon after\, her brilliant mind bloomed into an illustrious scientific career that melds the intricacies of the natural world with the truths of traditional Celtic wisdom. \n\n\n\nTo Speak for the Trees uniquely blends the story of Beresford-Kroeger’s incredible life and her outstanding achievement as a scientist. It elegantly shows us how forests can not only heal us as people but can also help save the planet. \n\n\n\n\nREGISTER
URL:https://brushwoodcenter.org/event/nature-book-club-february/
LOCATION:Brushwood Center at Ryerson Woods\, 21850 Riverwoods Rd.\, Riverwoods\, IL\, 60015\, United States
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SUMMARY:Nature Book Club: January
DESCRIPTION:Nature Book Club: January\n\n\n\nThe Brushwood Nature Book Club is a space to talk about and explore nature literature in a friendly environment. Each meeting includes discussion\, creative writing\, and art activities to engage with the themes of the chosen book\, led by Brushwood’s Poet-in-Residence Kathryn Haydon\, and writer-artist Megan Donahue.  \n\n\n\nOur January book will be Bird Cottage by Eva Meijer. \n\n\n\nBird Cottage is a novel based on the true story of a remarkable woman\, her lifelong relationship with birds and the joy she drew from it.Len Howard was forty years old when she decided to leave her London life and loves behind\, retire to the English countryside and devote the rest of her days to her one true passion: birds.Moving to a small cottage in Sussex\, she wrote two bestselling books\, astonishing the world with her observations on the tits\, robins\, sparrows and other birds that lived nearby\, flew freely in and out of her windows\, and would even perch on her shoulder as she typed.This moving novel imagines the story of this remarkable woman’s decision to defy society’s expectations\, and the joy she drew from her extraordinary relationship with the natural world. \n\n\n\n\nREGISTER
URL:https://brushwoodcenter.org/event/nature-book-club-january/
LOCATION:Brushwood Center at Ryerson Woods\, 21850 Riverwoods Rd.\, Riverwoods\, IL\, 60015\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Event
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SUMMARY:Nature Book Club: November
DESCRIPTION:Nature Book Club: November\n\n\n\nThe Brushwood Nature Book Club is a space to talk about and explore nature literature in a friendly environment. Each meeting includes discussion\, creative writing\, and art activities to engage with the themes of the chosen book\, led by Brushwood’s Poet-in-Residence Kathryn Haydon\, and writer-artist Megan Donahue.  \n\n\n\nOur November book will be Winter Morning Walks: 100 Postcards to Jim Harrison by poet Ted Kooser.  \n\n\n\nIn the late 1990s\, when poet Ted Kooser was recovering from cancer surgery\, he started sending postcards to his friend Jim Harrison\, a novelist known for Legends of the Fall and numerous other books. On each postcard\, he wrote a poem. Harrison did the same in return. In 2001\, Kooser turned his half of the exchange into Winter Morning Walks: 100 Postcards to Jim Harrison\, a collection of engaging\, witty\, clever\, insightful poems that serve simultaneously as snapshots of a friendship and a view into a poet’s daily observations.  \n\n\n\n\nREGISTER
URL:https://brushwoodcenter.org/event/nature-book-club-november/
LOCATION:Brushwood Center at Ryerson Woods\, 21850 Riverwoods Rd.\, Riverwoods\, IL\, 60015\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Event
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SUMMARY:Nature Book Club: October
DESCRIPTION:Nature Book Club: The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating\n\n\n\nThe Brushwood Nature Book Club is a space to talk about and explore nature literature in a friendly environment. Each meeting includes discussion\, creative writing\, and art activities to engage with the themes of the chosen book\, led by Brushwood’s Poet-in-Residence Kathryn Haydon\, and writer-artist Megan Donahue.  \n\n\n\nFor our October meeting\, we’ll be reading Elisabeth Tova Bailey’s The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating. \n\n\n\nElisabeth Tova Bailey tells the inspiring and intimate story of her year-long encounter with a Neohelix albolabris—a common forest snail. While an illness keeps her bedridden\, Bailey watches as the snail takes up residence on her nightstand. Intrigued by its molluscan anatomy\, cryptic defenses\, clear decision making ability\, hydraulic locomotion\, and mysterious courtship activities\, Bailey becomes an astute and amused observer. The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating is a remarkable journey of survival and resilience\, showing us how a small part of the natural world illuminates our own human existence. \n\n\n\n\nREGISTER
URL:https://brushwoodcenter.org/event/nature-book-club-october/
LOCATION:Brushwood Center at Ryerson Woods\, 21850 Riverwoods Rd.\, Riverwoods\, IL\, 60015\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Event
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