Marion Natural History Museum

8 Spring Street [2^nd floor of Taber Library]

Marion, Massachusetts 02738

 Dear Friends,  The next meeting of the Natural History Book Club will convene at the Museum on Thursday, November 15 at 7:00.  At the meeting last night we discussed Wendell Berry’s recently published volume of essays The Way of Ignorance.  Those familiar with Berry’s earlier works thought the septuagenarian philosopher farmer had become rather cranky. Thus it was that we decided  to explore one of the volumes that  earned him an audience spanning all generations and broad political and social spectrums. The Gift of Good Land was selected for discussion on November 15. These essays provide a different way of viewing the source of our nation’s wealth and America’s changing attitude towards the unusual richness of our land. Berry’s ideas are certainly not mainstream but they are provocative, thoughtfully presented with a hopeful and at times a humorous tone.

 We hope that you will enjoy The Gift of Good Land and will join us next month.

 Cheers,   John and Tess

p.s.  We will skip the December meeting, but January’s selection will be Barbara Kingsolver’s Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life.  We might even have a pot-luck supper based upon it!