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David Gessner at Thoreau Farm This Sunday

David Gessner will be reading from his work this Sunday, October 23rd at 2:00 PM. Gessner is the award-winning author of eight books and countless essays about the wild world.  His uniquely rambunctious style has been redefining what it means to write about nature for the past twenty years. Gessner is the winner of a John Burroughs Award and has been selected for publication in The Best American Nonrequired Reading. He teaches creative writing at the University of North Carolina at Wilmington, where he founded the award-winning journal, Ecotone.

You can read excerpts from Gessner’s work our Reading Page or link here:  READING

More information and registration information is at our Events Page or link here: EVENTS

David Gessner at Thoreau Farm
341 Virginia Road
Concord, MA

info@thoreaufarm.org or call 978-451-0300

Women, War & Peace – an upcoming PBS documentary

What if you looked at war as though women mattered?  This question is at the heart of Women, War and Peace, an upcoming PBS miniseries exploring women’s strategic role in conflict and peacebuilding.  Watch a special preview tonight.  Narrated by Matt Damon, Geena Davis, Tilda Swinton, and Alfre Woodard.

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Stephen Colbert Believes in Climate Change!

Stephen Colbert believes in climate change!

Colbert: “The United States emits more CO2 per capita than the European Union and China combined. Just think what those emissions numbers would be if America still made anything.”

The science behind climate change has become a political issue.  On a recent edition of The Colbert Report, he weighs in.  Watch him make the case on our Video page.  Link here: Video