Community Calendar: May 5-15
Wednesday 5/5
“Birds of Maine,” by late ornithologist Peter Vickery, noon-1 p.m., Zoom book discussion hosted by Natural Resource Council of Maine, bit.ly/2P8b55G.
“The Founder’s Mentality: The Growing Power of Entrepreneurship & Lessons from the Great Founders,” noon-1 p.m., virtual Author @ the Library talk with Chris Zook. Free, scarboroughlibrary.org.
Thursday 5/13
Spotlight Lecture Series: Jenny Offill talks about “Weather” with the BTS Center, 4-5:15 p.m. online, hosted by Portland Public Library and Print: A Bookstore. Registration required at portlandlibrary.com/events/.
Ongoing
Beanstack, online reading programs for all ages, a reading-habit tracker platform through Patten Free Library that includes reading programs and challenges. Visit patten.lib.me.us for details.
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Writer Rick Bass Fights for 20 Grizzly Bears
The author’s new collection of essays is a Texas naturalist’s scrapbook of the Lone Star State. It’s also a deep look at the natural world.
A grizzly bear named Sheena stands atop an earthen hill on the opening day of Montana Grizzly Encounter in May 2004, near Bozeman, Montana. AP Photo/The Daily Chronicle, Deirdre Eitel
The author’s new collection of essays is a Texas naturalist’s scrapbook of the Lone Star State. It’s also a deep look at the natural world.
A grizzly bear named Sheena stands atop an earthen hill on the opening day of Montana Grizzly Encounter in May 2004, near Bozeman, Montana. AP Photo/The Daily Chronicle, Deirdre Eitel
Release date: Mar 15, 2021
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Fortunate Son is a literary tour of the Lone Star State by a native Texan of exceptional talent. The essays encompass a Texas that is both Rick Bass s
Fortunate Son is a literary tour of the Lone Star State by a native Texan of exceptional talent. The essays encompass a Texas that is both lost and found, past and present. The stories reach from Galveston Bay to the Hill Country outside Austin, and from Houston in the 1960s to today. They are bound together by a deep love and a keen eye for the land and its people and by an appreciation for what is given, a ruefulness for what is lost, and a commitment to save what can be saved.
Trump’s Forest Service Planned More Logging in the Yaak Valley, Environmentalists Want Biden To Make it a ‘Climate Refuge’
One of the wildest places in America is a test case for the new administration’s conservation and climate strategies.
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For Aaron Peterson, exploring the chattering Yaak River and wandering the forests surrounding it is no more complicated than clipping on cross-country skis outside his front door. Roaming this northwestern corner of Montana sometimes feels risky when the weather’s warm because of the grizzlies in one of the Lower 48’s wildest places. But on winter days, when bears are hibernating beneath fresh snowfall, they are not what gives Peterson spine-tingling chills. Instead, it’s the crystalline air and exhilarating calm.