Connecting to Facebook
Join our book club and read important works of American environmental literature. Book discussions led by Ben Goluboff, professor of English at Lake Forest College.
September 16, 2009The Star Thrower
By Loren Eiseley
By Loren Eiseley
A collection of the author's favorite essays and poems. This volume includes selections that span Eiseley’s entire writing career and provide a sampling of the author as naturalist, poet, scientist and humanist.
January 13, 2010
March 10, 2010
Discussions held Wednesdays from 7:30-9pm in Brushwood, the historic home at Ryerson Woods. Coffee, tea and cookies will be served.
$15 per session ($10 FRW members)
Sign up for the entire series: $45 per person ($30 FRW members)
Register online at www.LCFPD.org or for member discount call 847.968.3321
Presented in Partnership with: November 11, 2009
The Life of the Skies: Birding at the End of Nature
By Jonathan Rosen
A birder’s memoir told with extraordinary erudition in literature, history and spirituality.By Jonathan Rosen
January 13, 2010Three Famous Short Novels: Spotted Horses, Old Man, The Bear
By William Faulkner
Three novellas set in Faulkner’s Yoknapatawpha County. Discussion will focus chiefly on The Bear, a coming of age story set against the vanishing Mississippi wilderness.
March 10, 2010The Unsettling of America
By Wendell Berry
This powerful critique of the postwar “Green Revolution” in agriculture that provoked the back to the land movement of the 1970s and underscores today’s discussions of local food.
Discussions held Wednesdays from 7:30-9pm in Brushwood, the historic home at Ryerson Woods. Coffee, tea and cookies will be served.
$15 per session ($10 FRW members)
Sign up for the entire series: $45 per person ($30 FRW members)
Register online at www.LCFPD.org or for member discount call 847.968.3321
