Join us for our next virtual meet-up of Winooski Reads, a book group for adult readers. Our May selection is Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants by Robin Wall Kimmerer. It's free to join and a limited number of titles are available to checkout and pick up on a first-served basis.
"As a botanist, Robin Wall Kimmerer has been trained to ask questions of nature with the tools of science. As a member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, she embraces the notion that plants and animals are our oldest teachers. Drawing on her life as an indigenous scientist, a mother, and a woman, Kimmerer shows how other living beings—asters and goldenrod, strawberries and squash, salamanders, algae, and sweetgrass—offer us gifts and lessons, even if we've forgotten how to hear their voices. In a rich braid of reflections that range from the creation of Turtle Island to the forces that threaten its flourishing today, she circles toward a central argument: that the awakening of a wider ecological consciousness requires the acknowledgment and celebration of our reciprocal relationship with the rest of the living world."
Tuesday, May 25, 2021 from 6:30 - 8:00 PM
To register, contact Nate Eddy, Library Director: neddy@winooskivt.gov / 802 655 6424
This program is run virtually via Zoom. A special Zoom meeting invite will be sent to you before each session.
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