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Saving an American Icon: The American Chestnut Tree with Susan Freinkel
The Stewardship Lecture Series 2007
October 25
At the Walden Woods Project's Thoreau Institute 44 Baker Farm, Lincoln, MA
For reservations, call 781-259-4707, or reserve on-line. Photo: UC Press Susan Freinkel will join us to discuss the blight that struck the American Chestnut Tree at the turn of the 19th century and the recent attempts of scientists and naturalists to revive it. Susan is the author of American Chestnut: The Life, Death and Rebirth of a Perfect Tree, to be published by the University of California Press in November of 2007. She became interested in the American chestnut while writing a story for Discover magazine about a mysterious disease that was threatening California’s oak trees. Researching sudden oak death, she learned about the greatest of forest epidemics – the chestnut blight – and became caught up in the spell of that older story. Freinkel spent nearly three years researching and writing American Chestnut, the first book on an ecological catastrophe that profoundly reshaped the American landscape and the way we think about the natural world. Freinkel is a science writer whose work has appeared in a variety of national publications including: Discover, Reader’s Digest, Smithsonian, The New York Times, Health, and Real Simple. In 2005, she was awarded an Alicia Patterson Fellowship, which allowed her to conduct much of the research for American Chestnut. |
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