Join Us on Bolin Creek and in the Woods next Saturday morning
With Dave Cook, author of the New Piedmont Almanac
Saturday, Nov 9 at 10 am in Wilson Park Parking lot.
Fall Naturalist Walk: Birds, Flowers, Nuts, Fruits, Mushrooms, Moss and Daytime Owlsand Whatever else we find…
About Dave’s new book.
The new book is encyclopedic in character, at present, more than 340 pages in length, with illustrations, in 10-point font, and in an 8 x 5 ½ page layout. The essays are greatly expanded from the original book and correspond to the sequence of weeks in the cyclical year. The book also features core material for students of the natural systems of the Piedmont, activities that I have developed over some 25 years as an environmental and Natural History educator, science coordinator and public school teacher. The purpose of these activities—more than sixty of them—is to provide the curious with the chance to develop a relationship with the Natural World through observation, participation and play. Two interviews with Tom Ellis, former superintendent of North Carolina State Parks are included in the book, one to lend perspective on the origin of the North Carolina State Parks system and the other a cameo piece in a section of book relating the inspiring environmental success story of the Eno River. Also included in the proposed book is as an interview with Thomas Berry recorded in his Greensboro home in the winter of 2002 as well as several of my own short essays on Nature.