Mon, Sep 12
|Washington Town Hall
Returning North With the Spring: Retracing the Journey of Naturalist Edwin Way Teale
John Harris retraces Teale's route using Teale's journal notes and photographs and examines environmental and social changes along the way. Although an RSVP is not required to attend, your response does allow us to send you an event reminder and any other important updates.
Time & Location
Sep 12, 2022, 7:00 PM – 8:30 PM
Washington Town Hall, 7 Halfmoon Pond Rd, Washington, NH 03280, USA
About the Event
Returning North With the Spring: Retracing the Journey of Naturalist Edwin Way Teale
With John Harris, author. Ph.D. and adjunct faculty member in Environmental Science at Franklin Pierce University.
{This program is made possible by a grant from the New Hampshire Humanities "Humanities to Go" program.}
In 1947, Edwin Way Teale, the most popular naturalist in the decade between Aldo Leopold and Rachel Carson, followed the progress of spring over four months from the Everglades to the summit of Mount Washington. His best-selling book, North with the Spring, recounts the epic journey he and his wife Nellie undertook. In 2012, John Harris retraces Teale's route using Teale's journal notes and photographs and examines changes in the flora, fauna, and lives of the people along the way. His account documents the losses, details the transformations, and celebrates the victories, for a remarkable number of east coast refuges have grown wilder during the intervening years.
John R. Harris is currently an adjunct faculty member in Environmental Science at Franklin Pierce University. He holds a Ph.D. in British and American literature from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and has taught courses in nature writing, environmental literacy, regional history, American literature and composition at Franklin Pierce University. In addition, he has organized and helped to edit two regional anthologies, Where the Mountain Stands Alone and Beyond the Notches: Stories of North Country New Hampshire.