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Pages with Purpose: Virtual Book Group


*The event has already taken place on this date: Thu, 01/28/2021
Virtual Book Club Event

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For our January Pages with Purpose: Virtual Book Group, we’ll be discussing The Home Place – Memoirs of a Colored Man’s Love Affair with Nature, by J. Drew Lanham.

 

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.

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Organization:

Seneca Park Zoo

Location:

2222 St. Paul Street
Rochester, NY, 14621
United States

Phone:

5853367213
Contact name: 
Education Department
Email address: 
The event has already taken place on this date: 
01/28/2021
Time: 
7-8 p.m.