<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:georgia,serif"><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">STUDENT/FACULTY/COMMUNITY BOOK CLUB ON RACE AND THE ENVIRONMENT</div><span style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">The Plattsburgh Project for Understanding Place is holding a virtual book club!</span><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Please join us to read J.  Drew Lanham's <i><u>The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man's Love Affair with Nature. </u></i></div><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">FREE BOOKS are available in THE HUB, the Center for Earth and Environmental Science in Hudson Hall, Chapter One Coffee downtown!</div><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Please contact Curt Gervich (<a href="mailto:cgerv001@plattsburgh.edu" target="_blank">cgerv001@plattsburgh.edu</a>) if you would like a copy. Free books are sponsored by the Campus Committee for Environmental Responsibility. </div><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">We hope students, faculty, staff, administrators and community members will join!</div><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif"><br></div><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Students will lead a virtual book club discussion over zoom at 8pm on November 18, 2020.</div><div style="font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif">Zoom link:  <a href="https://plattsburgh.zoom.us/j/93238709514" target="_blank" style="color:rgb(200,16,46);box-sizing:border-box;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;outline:0px;font-weight:bold;font-family:Lato,Helvetica,Arial;font-size:14px">https://plattsburgh.zoom.us/j/93238709514</a><span style="color:rgb(35,35,51);font-family:Lato,Helvetica,Arial;font-size:14px"></span><span style="box-sizing:border-box;color:rgb(35,35,51);font-family:Lato,Helvetica,Arial;font-size:14px;float:right;margin-right:32px"><br></span><div><br></div><div>Here's Amazon's description of this book:</div><div><font size="1"><span style="font-style:italic;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Amazon Ember",Arial,sans-serif">From the fertile soils of love, land, identity, family, and race emerges </span><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Amazon Ember",Arial,sans-serif">The Home Place</span><span style="font-style:italic;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Amazon Ember",Arial,sans-serif">, a big-hearted, unforgettable memoir by ornithologist J. Drew Lanham.</span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Amazon Ember",Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-style:italic;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Amazon Ember",Arial,sans-serif">Dating back to slavery, Edgefield County, South Carolina―a place “easy to pass by on the way somewhere else”―has been home to generations of Lanhams. In </span><span style="font-style:italic;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Amazon Ember",Arial,sans-serif">The Home Place</span><span style="font-style:italic;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Amazon Ember",Arial,sans-serif">, readers meet these extraordinary people, including Drew himself, who over the course of the 1970s falls in love with the natural world around him. As his passion takes flight, however, he begins to ask what it means to be “the rare bird, the oddity.”</span><br style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Amazon Ember",Arial,sans-serif"><span style="font-style:italic;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Amazon Ember",Arial,sans-serif">By turns angry, funny, elegiac, and heartbreaking, </span><span style="font-style:italic;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Amazon Ember",Arial,sans-serif">The Home Place</span><span style="font-style:italic;color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:"Amazon Ember",Arial,sans-serif"> is a remarkable meditation on nature and belonging, at once a deeply moving memoir and riveting exploration of the contradictions of black identity in the rural South―and in America today.</span><i>  </i></font><br></div><div><font size="1"><i><br></i></font></div><div>You may buy a copy of the book on Amazon for about $15.00.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div>--<br><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial"><b>Dr. Curt Gervich</b></p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial">Associate Professor</p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial">Center for Earth and Environmental Science</p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);margin:0px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial">SUNY Plattsburgh</p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12.8px;margin:0px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial"><font size="2">101 Broad Street</font></p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12.8px;margin:0px;line-height:normal;font-family:Arial"><font size="2">147 Hudson Hall</font></p><p style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-size:12.8px;mar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