Wednesday, December 31, 2008

Leafing Through the Pages - 2009

The nominations were made, the votes have been tallied and the list has been compiled. Leafing Through the Pages, the book discussion group of the Sterling Morton Library, will be reading and discussing the following works during 2009:
  • January 8, 2009 - Helphand, Kenneth. Defiant gardens : making gardens in wartime, 2006.
  • February 12, 2009 - Frome, Michael. Strangers in high places : the story of the Great Smoky Mountains, 1966.
  • March 12, 2009 - Dillard, Annie. Teaching a stone to talk : expeditions and encounters, 1982.
  • April 9, 2009 - Friedman, Thomas. Hot, flat and crowded : why we need a green revolution--and how it can renew America, 2008.
  • May 14, 2009 - Smith, Carl. The plan of Chicago : Daniel Burnham and the remaking of the American city, 2006.
  • June 11, 2009 - Ballowe, Jim. A man of salt and trees : the life of Joy Morton, 2009.
  • July 9, 2009 - Maloney, Cathy Jean. Chicago gardens : the early history, 2008.
  • August 13, 2009 - Johnson, Wendy. Gardening at the dragon's gate : at work in the wild and cultivated world, 2008.
  • September 10, 2009 - Campanella, Thomas J. Republic of shade : New England and the American elm, 2003.
  • October 8, 2009 - Koeppel, Dan. Banana : the fate of the fruit that changed the world, 2008.
  • November 12, 2009 - Kull, Robert. Solitude : seeking wisdom in extremes : a year alone in the Patagonia wilderness, 2008.
  • December 10, 2009 - Zwinger, Ann. Wind in the rock, 1978.
Full particulars: Meeting the second Thursday of each month from 10 a.m. - 12 p.m. in the Sterling Morton Library of The Morton Arboretum

Join us for a morning of spirited conversation, discussion and dialogue!

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