Tue, Oct 20 @ 7:00pm
Bird watcher (and sound artist) Dianne Ballon has been wanting to present An Evening with William Brewster ever since she found a copy of Concord River: Selections from the Journals of William Brewster, Harvard University Press, 1937. His observations and explorations are quietly, extraordinary.
William Brewster (1851-1919) was a renowned naturalist, conservationist and ornithologist. He gifted a lifetime of bird observations to Harvard. He co-founded the American Ornithologists Union and served as the first president of Mass Audubon. Brewster’s collection of diaries, journals, correspondence and photographs are a trove of valuable scientific data and a delightful account of his years exploring the woods, fields, rivers, and lakes of New England.
Join us for an evening of readings from the bird observations of William Brewster. We will hear from two Harvard archivists from the Ernst Mayr Library, Museum of Comparative Zoology, who continue to work on the Brewster collection. We will hear from the Executive Director of the Museums of the Bethel Historical Society on Brewster's connection to Maine. And then, settle in for an evening of late nineteenth-century bird observations up and down the Concord River.
Sponsored by York County Audubon. Live and via Zoom.
Bird watcher (and sound artist) Dianne Ballon has been wanting to present An Evening with William Brewster ever since she found a copy of Concord River: Selections from the Journals of William Brewster, Harvard University Press, 1937. His observations and explorations are quietly, extraordinary.
William Brewster (1851-1919) was a renowned naturalist, conservationist and ornithologist. He gifted a lifetime of bird observations to Harvard. He co-founded the American Ornithologists Union and served as the first president of Mass Audubon. Brewster’s collection of diaries, journals, correspondence and photographs are a trove of valuable scientific data and a delightful account of his years exploring the woods, fields, rivers, and lakes of New England.
Join us for an evening of readings from the bird observations of William Brewster. We will hear from two Harvard archivists from the Ernst Mayr Library, Museum of Comparative Zoology, who continue to work on the Brewster collection. We will hear from the Executive Director of the Museums of the Bethel Historical Society on Brewster's connection to Maine. And then, settle in for an evening of late nineteenth-century bird observations up and down the Concord River.
Sponsored by York County Audubon. Live and via Zoom.
An Evening with William Brewster https://dianneballonsound.com/event/an_evening_with_william_brewster/