Green Book Club
Meeting Tuesday, September 7, 7:30PM
Our Mission
To create a lively forum for verdant thinkers who will convene monthly to discuss an important work of fiction or non-fiction that helps us examine our relationship, as individuals and a society, to the natural world. Our monthly meetings are open to adults and take place in the Visitors Center.
 Please join us at our next discussion on Tuesday, September 7, 7:30PM for Beautiful Swimmers: Watermen, Crabs, and the Chesapeake Bay is a Pulitzer Prize winning non-fiction book by William W. Warner about the Chesapeake Bay, blue crabs and watermen. This meeting will be hosted by Claire Foster
When William Warner wrote Beautiful Swimmer he had already achieved distingued careers in the Foreign Service, the Peace Corps, and the Smithsonian Institution. Like his own professional life, his book covers a broad range: "Waterman, Crabs and the Chesapeake Bay." Much of the best nature writing, rather than treating "nature" in an abstract or exlusive sense, includes human beings in the drama of a place on earth, recognizes the value of non-human life within our history and our spiritual life. Beautiful Swimmer celebrates both the Atlantic blue crab and the "watermen" who pursue it in the world's most productive (though now endangered) crabbing grounds. It won the 1976 Pulitzer Prize for non fiction.
We encourage you to purchase books locally or visit your library. Elm Street Books in New Canaan offers, a 10% discount to NCNC members on current book club titles.
Please RSVP or if you have questions, email nature@newcanaannature.org
Upcoming meetings & books:
September 7: Beautiful Swimmers: Waterman, Crabs, and the Chesapeake Bay, by William Warner, hosted by Claire Foster
October 5: Last Child in the Woods, by Richard Louv, hosted by Keith Marshall
November 2: Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, by Annie Dillard, hosted by Ali Beatty
November 30: Mutant Message Down Under, by Marlo Morgan, hosted by Keith Marshall
January 4: Honeybee: Lessons from an Accidental Beekeeper, by C. Marina Marchese, hosted by the author
February 1: The Orchid Thief: A True Story of Beauty and Obsession, by Susan Orlean
March 1: Eating Animals, by Jonathan Safran Foer, hosted by Melanie Pearson
March 29: Into the Wild, by Jon Krakauer, hosted by Keith Marshall
List of Previously-Read Books
Lucky You, by Carl Hiaasen (read July 2010)
The Real Food Revival, by Sherri Brooks Vinton, hosted by the author (read June 2010)
Kingbird Highway: The Biggest Year in the Life of an Extreme Birder, by Kenn Kaufman (read May 2010)
Eco-Chick Guide to Life, by Starr Vartan (read April 2010)
Silent Spring, by Rachel Carson (read March 2010)
In Pursuit of the Common Good, by Paul Newman and A.E. Hotchner (read February 2010)
Confessions of an Eco-Sinner by Fred Pearce (read January 2010)
Desert Solitaire, by Edward Abbey (read December 2009)
Cradle to Cradle, by William McDonough (read November 2009)
A Sand County Almanac, by Aldo Leopold (read October 2009)
Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life by Barbara Kingsolver (read September 2009)
The Art of Simple Food and The Edible Schoolyard, by Alice Waters (read July 2009)
The Omnivore's Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals, by Michael Pollan (read June 2009)
Greasy Rider: Two Dudes, One Fry-Oil-Powered Car, and a Cross-Country Search for a Greener Future, by Greg Melville (read May 2009)
Deep Economy: The Wealth of Communities and the Durable Future, by Bill McKibben (read April 2009)
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