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SUMMARY:Super Cup Fungus Foray with Larry Millman
DESCRIPTION:THIS EVENT HAS BEEN RESCHEDULED TO MARCH 29 \n Learn More and Register\nMycologist and author of Fascinating Fungi of New England\, Fungipedia\, Lawrence Millman\, will be the foray leader on a mushroom identification walk in Hapgood-Wright Forest. \nScheduled this year to NOT conflict with the Super Bowl\, the Super Cup Fungus Foray offers much excitement for those with a sporting spirit. We will be searching not only for super cup fungi\, but also other interesting winter species. The focus will be on ecology and not\, definitely not\, edibility! \n\nAuthor and Arctic explorer Lawrence Millman has written 18 books\, including such titles as Our Like Will Not Be There Again\, Last Places\, Hiking to Siberia\, At the End of the World\, Fascinating Fungi of New England\, Fungipedia\, and Goodbye\, Ice. He is also a contributor to Thoreau Farm’​s book: What Would Henry Do? Volume II. He has visited Henry’s grave more times than he’s visited either his mother’s or his father’s graves. He lives in Cambridge. \n 
URL:https://www.thoreaualliance.org/event/super-cup-fungus-foray-2026/
LOCATION:Hapgood-Wright Forest\, Walden Street\, Concord\, MA\, 01742\, United States
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SUMMARY:The Great Black Swamp: A Conversation with Patrick Wensink
DESCRIPTION:Register\n\nIn the summer of 2014\, Lake Erie’s western basin turned a shocking\, toxic green—an ecological disaster that threatened the drinking water of nearly 400\,000 Ohio residents. How did it happen\, and why does the answer lead back to a forgotten landscape most Americans have never heard of? \n\nJoin author Patrick Wensink on Zoom for a lively and deeply personal conversation about his book Great Black Swamp: Toxic Algae\, Toxic Relationships\, and the Most Interesting Place in America That Nobody’s Ever Heard Of. Blending environmental reporting\, Midwestern history\, and memoir\, Wensink traces the roots of today’s global algae crisis to the drained wetlands of northwest Ohio and Indiana—once a vast\, malaria-ridden ecosystem known as the Great Black Swamp.\n\nAs Wensink revisits his childhood home\, he explores industrial agriculture\, climate change\, American history\, and the scientists working on hopeful ecological interventions\, all while reckoning with his own past\, including a failing marriage and complicated personal relationships. The result is a surprising\, funny\, and urgent story about how landscapes shape people—and how damaged places might still point the way forward.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n  \nPatrick Wensink is the author of five books\, including the bestseller Broken Piano for President. His journalism appears in the New York Times\, Esquire\, Salon\, Men’s Health\, Oxford American and others. He is a professor of Creative Writing and directs the Mountain Heritage Literary Festival at Lincoln Memorial University. He was born and raised in Deshler\, Ohio. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe event will include a reading\, conversation\, and audience Q&A. Registration required.\n\n\nThis event is part of The Write Connection at Thoreau Farm\, our literary series of programs.
URL:https://www.thoreaualliance.org/event/the-great-black-swamp/
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SUMMARY:Turning to Stone: Marcia Bjornerud in conversation with Robert Thorson
DESCRIPTION:Register\n  \n \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \n  \nJoin us for an evening with geologist and acclaimed author Marcia Bjornerud\, in conversation with Robert Thorson\, celebrating Bjornerud’s award-winning book Turning to Stone\, winner of the 2025 John Burroughs Medal for Natural History Writing. \nPraised by Elizabeth Kolbert as “a beautiful book—at once intimate and sweeping\, informative and moving\,” Turning to Stone invites readers to rethink their relationship with the Earth beneath their feet. Our planet\, Bjornerud reminds us\, is vibrantly alive—constantly reinventing itself over more than four billion years—and rocks preserve the record of those vast experiments in time.\n\nDespite their reputation for stillness\, rocks lead eventful lives that intersect with our own in surprising and essential ways. From sandstone aquifers that purify our drinking water to basalt formations that quietly regulate global climate\, stone is the hidden infrastructure that keeps Earth functioning. Learning to read this “language of rocks” can deepen our understanding of place\, time\, and responsibility on a changing planet.\n\nIn conversation\, Bjornerud and Thorson will explore the ideas at the heart of Turning to Stone\, weaving together science\, story\, and personal experience. Bjornerud will reflect on her journey from a rural Wisconsin childhood to a life studying mountains in remote corners of the world\, and on the remarkable period of discovery that has transformed the geosciences in her lifetime. \n\nMarcia Bjornerud is a professor of Environmental Studies and Geosciences at Lawrence University. She is a contributing writer to The New Yorker\, Wired\, The Wall Street Journal\, and the Los Angeles Times and the author of Reading the Rocks\, Timefulness\, and Geopedia.\n\nRobert Thorson  is a Midwestern native turned Northwestern geologist turned Northeastern academic who commutes to work on a woodland trail.  He’s a Professor of Earth Sciences at the University of Connecticut where he teaches Honors Core courses\, advanced geoscience\, and science communication.  His scholarship bridges the intellectual apartheid between STEM science and the humanities.\n\n\nThis event is part of The Write Connection at Thoreau Farm\, our literary series of programs. \n\n\n 
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