Author Talk: Nancy Elle Smith, Wild Animals in the Neighborhood – The Gift of Second Chances

In this slide presentation, Nancy Elle Smith will speak about her book Downwind, which documents the quirkiness, the exuberance, and the fierce beauty of wild animals in the neighborhood. With the resurgence of the wild in our region, we have been given a second chance to keep them among us, and to understand that we are one species among many. Our regard for the wild world presages the future.

“After years of conservation work through the Sheffield Land Trust and Sweet Water Trust, which helped protect huge tracts of natural land in the northeast, Nancy Smith decided to document the wild creatures in her own backyard… The book is beautifully composed with photography, humor, and astonishing detail. Like banners in the breeze, each chapter alerts us to the primal pull of the wild, for it is here that our brains, blitzed out by electronic messaging, can find some calm.” Berkshire Edge

This talk is co-sponsored by the Norfolk Library, the Norfolk Nature Alliance, and Aton Forest. Nancy will be signing copies of her book.

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