Student/Faculty Community Book Club on Race and the Environment

[Natalie Campbell]

STUDENT/FACULTY/COMMUNITY BOOK CLUB ON RACE AND THE ENVIRONMENT
The Plattsburgh Project for Understanding Place is holding a virtual book
club!
Please join us to read J.  Drew Lanham's *The Home Place: Memoirs of a
Colored Man's Love Affair with Nature. *
FREE BOOKS are available in THE HUB, the Center for Earth and Environmental
Science in Hudson Hall, Chapter One Coffee downtown!
Please contact Curt Gervich (cgerv001 at plattsburgh.edu) if you would like a
copy. Free books are sponsored by the Campus Committee for Environmental
Responsibility.
We hope students, faculty, staff, administrators and community members will
join!

Students will lead a virtual book club discussion over zoom at 8pm on
November 18, 2020.
Zoom link:  https://plattsburgh.zoom.us/j/93238709514

Here's Amazon's description of this book:
>From the fertile soils of love, land, identity, family, and race emerges The
Home Place, a big-hearted, unforgettable memoir by ornithologist J. Drew
Lanham.
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 The Home Place, 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.”
By turns angry, funny, elegiac, and heartbreaking, The Home Place 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.

You may buy a copy of the book on Amazon for about $15.00.


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*Dr. Curt Gervich*

Associate Professor

Center for Earth and Environmental Science

SUNY Plattsburgh

101 Broad Street

147 Hudson Hall

Plattsburgh, NY 12901

(o) 518-564-4030

(c) 540-818-1896

*plattsburgh.edu <http://plattsburgh.edu/>*

Middlebury School of the Environment
Co-Director
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