BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//wp-events-plugin.com//7.2.3.1//EN TZID:America/New_York X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/New_York BEGIN:VEVENT UID:1871@bluehillpeninsula.org DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20180601T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20180601T203000 DTSTAMP:20180507T131817Z URL:https://bluehillpeninsula.org/events/author-event-with-hans-carlson-wa lking-toward-moosalamoo/ SUMMARY:Author Event with Hans Carlson- Walking Toward Moosalamoo DESCRIPTION:Blue Hill Books to hold a book release and signing – Friday\, June 1\, 2018 – 7 PM – at the Bagaduce Music Library\, in Blue Hill.\ nBlue Hill Books is hosting Hans M. Carlson\, Executive Director of Blue H ill Heritage Trust\, who will read from his newest book\, Walking Toward M oosalamoo\, and discuss land\, cultures\, and history in New England. Ther e will be a reception and book signing following the talk.\nA cultural and environmental historian\, Carlson holds an MA from the University of Verm ont\, and a PhD from the University of Maine. He is an avid outdoors-man a nd has traveled extensively across northeastern Canada and the United Stat es – by canoe\, truck and on foot. These are the experiences at the hear t of Walking Toward Moosalamoo. Prior to coming to Blue Hill\, Carlson tau ght in the American Indian Studies Department at the University of Minneso ta\, and was Director of Great Mountain Forest\, in northwest Connecticut. He is author of Home Is The Hunter: The James Bay Cree and Their Land\, a nd was one of the principal authors of The Historical Atlas of Maine.\nWal king Toward Moosalamoo is a story of humans and the earth. It is also a ch ronicle of backpacking on the section of the Appalachian Trail which runs from Mount Katahdin to a place called Mount Moosalamoo\, in the Champlain Valley of Vermont. At bottom\, it is an environmental inquiry into the dia log between humans and the land\, one concerned with our current environme ntal crises\, but also with the historical and cultural terrain of New Eng land–its narrative geography. Along the way\, Carlson muses on the ways we speak of the earth–how we often wound it with our words\, but also ho w we limit our own freedom\, and wound ourselves\, by misrepresenting our storied relationship with the land that supports all our lives. This is an environmental and political argument for listening to the earth\, but als o one for listening to each other. In the telling of his trip\, “Moosala moo” is more metaphor than mountain – a destination in a new story\, n ot simply a peak in the Green Mountains.\n“This book started as an attem pt to say something political about current environmental issues\,” Carl son says\, “but it isn’t the straightforward discussion I had once ima gined. Over time\, it became a meditation on the environmental context – the ecological parameters – of our history and culture\, as well as cur rent politics. It also became focused on the narrative context we share wi th all living things on the earth\, and how political this is when you sto p to think about it.”\nWalking Toward Moosalamoo resembles those natural histories\, popular in the eighteenth and early nineteenth century\, writ ten before the professionalization of the sciences and humanities into sep arate fields. This was a period when writers felt free to wander an open i ntellectual range not yet divided by disciplinary barbwire and academic no -trespassing signs. The book is interested in both the natural world and t he cultural and historical meaning of nature\, and so is infused and inscr ibed with the thoughts and actions of many hundreds of generations who are part of the land.\nNative American history and culture are also at the ce nter of this book. It is not just Euro-American cultural narrative that is important here\, but the call and response of humans and the land going b ack many thousands of years. The weight of non-western intellectual tradit ions are a key part of its story\, and the book is infused with Carlson’ s personal relationship both the land and Native people of North America. “I would never presume to speak for Native peoples\,” he says\, “but this book would not be without their ideas. It was in their intellectual traditions that I encountered the possibility that it may not be just huma ns creating the narrative ecology in which we live – that we may not the only ones doing the talking. This simple notion reshaped a great deal of my thinking about environmental politics.”\n\nAdvanced praise for Walkin g Toward Moosalamoo\n“Through the lens of a beguiling New England landsc ape Hans Carlson gives us a sensitively written and deeply personal reflec tion on the meaning of nature\, history and culture in our current environ mental predicament.”\nSir Peter Crane\, Retired Dean of the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies\, and author of Ginkgo: The Tree tha t Time Forgot.\n"This is a powerful account of the deep history of a remar kable corner of our remarkable planet. With its recognition that the stori es we tell must reckon with the first people who inhabited our various pla ces\, it tends toward a real healing."\nBill McKibben\, author Eaarth\n“ Walking Toward Moosalamoo is an insightful and inspiring journey to explor e how we’ve gotten to where we are and the work in front of all of us if we are to find a more equitable and ethical way forward. Building on Thor eau\, Muir\, and Leopold this inventive storytelling approach weaves the r eader through the past\, present and future.”\nBuddy Huffaker\, Presiden t &\; Executive Director of The Aldo Leopold Foundation LOCATION:Bagaduce Music Lending Library Performance Hall\, 49 South St\, Bl ue Hill \, ME\, 04614\, United States GEO:44.40658519999999;-68.59575219999999 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=49 South St\, Blue Hill \, ME\, 04614\, United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=100;X-TITLE=Bagaduce Music Lendi ng Library Performance Hall:geo:44.40658519999999,-68.59575219999999 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York X-LIC-LOCATION:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT DTSTART:20180311T030000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE END:VCALENDAR