Monday, March 30, 2009
Report on March Meeting
The March 29 meeting had a good turnout of six people with three new members attending. We enjoyed a lively discussion about Rachel Carson as an environmentalist and as an author. Members shared some readings of favorite passages. Members had read from different works, including Always Rachel (a collection of letters to and from Dorothy Freeman), Under the Sea-Wind, The Edge of the Sea, A Sense of Wonder, The Lost Woods (an anthology of Carson writings), and The Sea Around Us. We reviewed an ever-growing list of candidates for future reads, but settled on Refuge by Terry Tempest Williams for April's book. One member is investigating the purchase of a nature writers' anthology to assist us in the book selection process. Many excellent suggestions have been put forth! We are still determining what process to use for selecting books. As the season warms, we hope to schedule some meetings outdoors. The next meeting is set for Sunday April 26, 3:00 PM, Snyder Hall, Shepherd University.
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Here are two anthologies I mentioned in the meeting. "From Blue Ridge to Barrier Islands: An Audubon Naturalist Reader" edited by J. Kent Minichiello and Anthony W. White
ReplyDelete"The Height of Our Mountains: Nature Writing from Virginia's Blue Ridge Mountains and Shenandoah Valley" by Professor Michael P. Branch and Professor Daniel J. Philippon
I am in the process of reading the first but have not read the second.