Reading Recommendations

I recommend "This Fine Piece of Water, An Environmental History of Long Island Sound" by Tom Andersen, Yale University Press, 2002. As others have said, it is like Rachel Carson's "Silent Spring" was for our environment. It includes the current dilemma, the geology, geography,history and stories of our LI Sound. It ties in so well with my current work of Water Quality Monitoring on our local bays and helps explain why doing something locally is thinking globally!

Ailene Kane Rogers
April 2005

"The Great Fire" by Shirley Hazzard is, in my opinion, superb. She writes with intelligence, insight, compassion and informed research. I learned about it from a review in the Economist, and there's high praise!

Noelle Caseley Locke
May, 2005

Oliver Sacks' "An Anthropologist on Mars: Seven Paradoxical Tales"(Knopf, 1995) offers fascinating glimpses into the human mind, in the lives of people who live with various kinds of neurological damage. One account tells of the challenges faced by a man who regains sight after having been blind since early childhood. Another describes a surgeon who lives and works successfully despite his Tourette's Syndrome. Yet another is about the autistic, highly accomplished Temple Grandin, Ph.D., who has had an innovative career in animal science. In reading these accounts we can marvel at these seven people's ways of meeting such challenges, and also increase our own awareness of ways in which we all see and perceive.

Lucy Paine Kezar
May, 2005

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