MONTH

MODERATOR(S)

BOOK/TOPIC

 
March

Linda Lear
Carson biographer: Witness for Nature

New book:  Beatrix Potter:  A Life in Nature 

Deanne Urmy
Houghton Mifflin Senior Editor:  Lost Woods; Always, Rachel; Courage for the Earth

• Discussion about Rachel Carson's life and legacy

Excerpts from Silent Spring; Lost Woods

April

Thomas Dunlap
Professor of History, Texas A & M University
Mark Madison
Historian, U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

Silent Spring

May

John Elder
Professor at Middlebury College; author
New book:  Pilgrimage to Vallombrosa

Deanne Urmy
Houghton Mifflin Senior Editor:  Lost Woods; Always, Rachel; Courage for the Earth

Courage for the Earth
Contributors include: John Elder, Al Gore, John Hay, Freeman House, Linda Lear, Robert Michael Pyle, Janisse Ray, Sandra Steingraber, Terry Tempest Williams, and
E. O. Wilson

June

Maril Hazlett
Independent scholar; Contributor:  Seeing Nature through Gender

Always, Rachel

July

Patricia DeMarco
Executive Director, Rachel Carson Homestead Assoc.

Mark Lytle
Professor of History, Bard College
New book:  The Gentle Subversive

Under the Sea-Wind

August

The Edge of the Sea

 

September

H. Patricia Hynes
Professor of Environmental Health, Boston University
Author of The Recurring Silent Spring

Lost Woods

October

Jim Lynch
Author of The Highest Tide

The Sea Around Us

 
November

Tom Schaefer
Educator and historian

 
The Sense of Wonder