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Dispatches From Mexico: John Ross and the Journey through Mexico

Event info: Friday 30 April 2010 – 7:00pm to 9:00pm

Speaker: John Ross
Author and activist John Ross has spent many years traveling and chronicling struggles for human rights in Mexico. He has written ten books of fiction and non-fiction. His latest volume “El Monstruo – Dread & Redemption in Mexico City”, a street-level peoples’ history of the most polluted, overcrowded, corrupt and crime-ridden megalopolis [...]

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The Coming Population Crash: Our Planet’s Surprising Future

Event info: Friday 16 April 2010 – 7:00pm to 9:00pm

Fred Pearce, Author of When the Rivers Run Dry
For more than two centuries there has been mounting concern that rapidly growing populations are putting an unsustainable strain on the Earth’s resources. However, much has been misunderstood about the current rate of population growth and its effect on the environment. Though the global population is four [...]

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Author Talk with Lynne Anderson – “Breaking Bread: Recipes and Stories from Immigrant Kitchens”

Event info: Wednesday 2 June 2010 – 7:00pm to 9:00pm

Through stories of hand-rolled pasta and homemade chutney, local markets and backyard gardens, and wild mushrooms and foraged grape leaves— Breaking Bread:  Recipes and Stories from Immigrant Kitchens recounts in loving detail the memories, recipes, and culinary traditions of people who have come to the United States from around the world. Chef, teacher and author [...]

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Early Spring: Talking to Your Kids About Climate Change

Event info: Friday 15 May 2009 – 7:00pm to 9:00pm

Ecologist and mother Amy Seidl examines climate change at a personal level through her own family’s walks in the woods, work in their garden, and observations of local wildlife in the quintessential America of small-town New England, deep in the Green Mountains of Vermont.  She explores this changing landscape, and her family’s relationship to it, [...]

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Hillary Jordan, Author of “MUDBOUND” (Reading)

Event info: Friday 2 May 2008 – 7:00pm to 9:00pm

 

“This is storytelling at the height of its powers: the ache of wrongs not yet made right, the fierce attendance of history made as real as rain, as true as this minute. Hillary Jordan writes with the force of a Delta storm.”
– Barbara Kingsolver
Please join us for an intimate reading with Hillary Jordan, 2006 recipient [...]

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