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Fw: [mfbr] Upcoming event at the Bull's Head Bookshop



I don't know if this has already hit CB, but in case it hasn't, I thought it
merited mention.  If it has, please forgive the repost.

-Sandy

-- 
Sandy Cash
Durham, NC

"The time for change is here and here we are, we're just for you!" -
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Misty Franklin" <franklin@email.unc.edu>
To: "Mason Farm Biological Reserve Members" <mfbr@listserv.unc.edu>
Sent: Monday, August 25, 2003 4:08 PM
Subject: [mfbr] Upcoming event at the Bull's Head Bookshop


> Hi,
> The Bull's Head Bookshop at UNC asked me to forward this information to
> you regarding an upcoming event on campus that might be of interest to
> birders at Mason Farm and NC Botanical Garden.
>
> On Tuesday, September 2nd at 3:30 p.m. at the Bull's Head Bookshop, UNC
> graduate Peter Cashwell will read from his new book The Verb To Bird :
> Sightings of an Avid Birder (Paul Dry Books). Cashwell combines humor
> with his knowledge of birds and enthusiasm for birding. His writing has
> appeared in The Comics Journal, in The Denver Post, and on WVTF Radio.
> For more information, contact: Christina Pelech, Publicity Manager,
> Bull's Head Bookshop, (919) 962-3450, pelech@email.unc.edu
>
> Book Description
> All around the world, birds are a subject of intense and even spiritual
> fascination, but relatively few people see the word "bird" as a verb.
> Peter Cashwell is one who does. This is a whimsical and critical book
> about his many obsessions, including birds, birders, language,
> literature, and pop culture. It begins with an irreverent examination of
> birding as a historical, cultural, and even religious phenomenon and
> describes how a thirty-something student of academic and popular culture
> ends up an active participant in organized bird counts. Birding alone is
> compared to birding in company, and the pleasures of feeding birds
> outside are contrasted with the irrational terror of encountering them
> indoors. It also includes a birder's travelogue in which the author
> recounts the high (and low) points of trips all around the nation: from
> Virginia, where geese of unusual size appear out of nowhere, to South
> Carolina's Low Country, home to some of America's most beautiful birds
> and most ravenous biting insects; from Long Island, where, against all
> odds, nature still exists, to the river, city, and state of Iowa, where
> nomenclature is in short supply.
>
> About the Author
> Peter Cashwell teaches English at the Woodberry School in Virginia. He
> lives in Woodberry Forest, Virginia.
>
> -- 
> Misty Franklin
> The North Carolina Botanical Garden
> The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
> CB 3375 Totten Center
> Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3375
> http://www.ncbg.unc.edu/
>
> Office Phone: 919-962-0522
> Mobile Phone: 919-395-6259
> Fax: 919-962-3531
>
>
>
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