Please join Middlebury College alumni, parents and friends for a special evening with John Elder, Stewart Professor of English and Environmental Studies.
John will read from and talk about his new book, Pilgrimage to Vallombrosa in which, on a Fulbright year, he followed the footsteps of nineteenth-century diplomat and writer George Perkins Marsh, generally regarded now as America's first environmentalist.
Like Elder, Marsh was a Vermonter, and his diplomatic career took him for some years to Italy, where, witnessing the ecological devastation wrought upon the landscape by runaway deforestation and the plundering of other natural resources, he was moved to produce his famous manifesto, Man and Nature. Copies of John's book will be available for purchase and signing following the reading.
Bill McKibben called John Elder's book "One of the smartest, soundest, deepest books about the relationship between people and nature that I've ever read."
WHEN: Friday, January 19, 2007
6:30 p.m. reception
7:00 p.m. lecture
WHERE: The Birch Wathen Lenox School
210 East 77th Street
(between Second & Third Avenue)
Hosted by Headmaster, Frank Carnabuci P'06,'08
RSVP to slevine@middlebury.edu or 802-443-5777.