“I WAS THIRTY-THREE and couldn’t get a job as a dogcatcher. As if flaming out of three theaters and provoking Gregory Peck to slug me weren’t bad enough, I had accepted a job to direct a play about bestiality on Broadway. Leda Had a Little Swan was, to my knowledge, the first play in Broadway […]
William Brewster (1851-1919) was the first president of the Massachusetts Audubon Society, which inspired the creation of Audubon Societies across the U.S. Brewster's passion for Concord's land and rivers, and for its flora and fauna, echo the vision of an earlier Concordian, Henry David Thoreau. Concord historian and educator Jayne Gordon will explore similarities and […]
H is for Hawk memoirist, Helen Macdonald, will discuss her newest collection of essays, Vesper Flights in which she reflects on “the numinous” of nature – “those moments where mystery arises from the meeting of human art and unpredictable natural phenomena.” Advanced registration is required. This program is being livestreamed to a virtual audience. This […]
Braiding the wild, the spiritual, and the human into poems and meditations, Chrissa Ventrelle focuses on the soothing wisdom of nature and the gift of togetherness in her second collection, What Nature Knows: Poems & Meditations. She is joined by artist Hillary Waters Fayle who provided the artwork for the volume. The two share a conversation […]
