11/7/12
Naturalist Author Janisse Ray To Speak At St. Lawrence
CANTON - Janisse Ray, an author, activist and naturalist, will give a talk titled "What Counts As Progress?" on Wednesday, Nov. 14, at 7 p.m. in Eben Holden at St. Lawrence University. The event, part of the Contemporary Issues Forum, is open to the public free of charge, and will be followed by a book-signing.
An avid gardener, Ray is the author of several books, including Pinhook and Ecology of a Cracker Childhood, a New York Times Notable Book. Her most recent book, The Seed Underground: A Growing Revolution to Save Food is a look at what she calls "seed sovereignty" and gardens where vintage varieties of fruits and vegetables are being curated.
Ray is a Woodrow Wilson Visiting Fellow and won a Southern Booksellers Award for Poetry, a Southeastern Booksellers Award for Nonfiction, an American Book Award, the Southern Environmental Law Center Award for Outstanding Writing and a Southern Book Critics Circle Award. She lectures widely on nature, community, agriculture, wildness, sustainability and "the politics of wholeness."
Janisse Ray's website.
