Meets in the adult
classroom at 11:30 am on the 3rd
Thursday of the month (except Oct and Nov 2019)
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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
Date
|
Book Title
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Author
|
Moderator
|
Oct 31
|
The Invention of Nature
|
Andrea Wulf
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Tom Shelton & Page Luttrell
|
Nov 14
|
New and Selected Poems or any other collection
of her poetry
|
Mary Oliver
|
Bob Ambrose
|
Dec 19
|
Winter World
|
Bernd Heinrich
|
Dale Hoyt
|
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
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Bob Ambrose, Avis Winfield, Eugenia Thompson
|
Mar 19
|
Slime:
|
Ruth Kassinger
|
Dale Hoyt
|
Apr 16
|
The Genius of Birds
|
Jennifer Ackerman
|
Eugenia Thompson
|
May 21
|
Henry David Thoreau: A Life
|
Laura Dassow Walls.
|
Jackie Elsner
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Aug 20
|
Fire Season
|
Phillip Connors
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Catherine Chastain, Ted LaMontagne
|
Sep 17
|
Stronghold
|
Tucker Malarky
|
Avis Winfield
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Oct 15
|
Crow Planet
|
Lyanda Lynn Haupt
|
Linda Chafin
|
Nov 19
|
Bringing
Nature Home
|
Douglas Tallamy
|
Kathy Stege
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Dec 17
|
Drifting into Darien
|
Janisse Ray
|
Tom Shelton
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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
Date
|
Book Title
|
Author
|
Moderator
|
(and Outside) a Bird's Egg |
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3/21
|
Marsh Mud and
Mummichogs: An Intimate Natural History of Coastal Georgia
|
Evelyn Sherr
|
Dale Hoyt
|
4/18
|
The Woods Stretched
for Miles
|
John Lane &
Gerald Thurmond |
Dale Hoyt
|
5/16
|
Summer for the Gods
|
Ed Larson
|
Tom Shelton
|
6/20
|
The Home Place
|
J. Drew Lanham
|
Tom Shelton
|
7/18
|
Sand County Almanac
|
Aldo Leopold
|
Eugenia
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8/15
|
The Hidden Life of
Trees
|
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
|
The Sixth Extinction
|
Elizabeth
Kolbert
|
My First Summer in the Sierra
|
John Muir
|
Mycelium Running
|
Paul Stamets
|
Founding Gardeners
|
Andrea Wulf
|
The Brother Gardeners: A Generation of Gentlemen Naturalists
|
Andrea Wulf
|
The Hidden Life of Trees
|
Peter Wohlleben
|
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
|
Annie Dillard
|
The Overstory
|
Richard Powers
|
Ecology of a Cracker Childhood
|
Janisse Ray
|
The Invention of Nature
|
Andrea Wulf
|
The Ends of the World
|
Peter Brannen
|
Life and Death of the Salt Marsh
|
John &
Mildred Teal
|
Darwin’s Origin of Species (Books that changed the
world)
|
Janet Brown
|
The Most Perfect Thing
|
Tim Birkhead
|
Travels of William Bartram
|
Mark VanDoren,
ed.
|
A Yearning Toward Wildness (Thoreau quotations)
|
ed. By Tim Homan
|
The Road of a Naturalist
|
Donald Culross Peattie
|
The Forest Unseen
|
David George Haskell
|
A Sand County Almanac
|
Aldo Leopold
|
H is for Hawk
|
Helen MacDonald
|
American Wolf
|
Nate Blakeslee
|
The World of a Saltmarsh
|
Charles Seabrook
|
Marsh Mud and Mummichogs
|
Evelyn Sherr
|
The Woods Stretched for Miles: New Nature Writing from
the South
|
John Lane &
Gerald Thurmond, eds.
|
Curious World of Calpurnia Tate
|
Jacqueline Kelly
|
Waiting for Aphrodite
|
Sue Hubbell
|
Cathedral of the Wild
|
Boyd Vartey
|
The Control of Nature
|
John McPhee
|
Mountains of the Heart
|
Scott Weidensaul
|
The Songs of Trees
|
David George
Haskell
|
The Home Place
|
Drew Lanham
|
Summer of the Gods: The Scopes Trial, America’s Continuing
Debate over Science and Religion
|
Ed Larson
|
Drifting into Darien
|
Janisse Ray
|
