Mary Taylor Young -- "Bluebird Seasons"
Category: Literary
Date and Time for this Past Event
- Thursday, Aug 10, 2023 6:30pm - 7:30pm
Location
Boulder Bookstore
1107 Pearl St
Details
Mary Taylor Young will speak about and sign her new book, "Bluebird Seasons: Witnessing Climate Change in My Piece of the Wild," on Thursday, August 10th at 6:30pm, at Boulder Bookstore.
About the Book:
Climate change wasn’t yet on the public radar when Mary Taylor Young and her husband bought their piece of the wild in 1995. They built a cabin, set up a trail of bluebird nest boxes, and began a nature journal of observations, delighting in the ceaseless dramas, joys, and tragedies that are the fabric of life in the wild. But changes greater than the seasonal cycles of nature became evident over time: increasing drought, wildfires, bears delaying hibernation, and the decline of familiar birds and appearance of new species.
Their journal of sightings over twenty-five bluebird seasons, she realized, was a record of climate change happening, not in an Indonesian rainforest or on an Antarctic ice sheet but in their own natural neighborhood. Using the journal as a chronicle of change, "Bluebird Seasons" tells a story echoed in everyone’s lives and backyards. But it’s not time to despair, she writes. It’s time to act. Young sees hope in the human ability to overcome great obstacles, in the energy and determination of young people, and in nature’s resilience, which the bluebirds show season after season.
IMPORTANT TICKETING AND EVENT INFORMATION
*Tickets are $5 (plus a small processing fee).
*A coupon good for $5 off a copy of "Bluebird Seasons" or a purchase on the day of the event is included with your ticket. You will receive this coupon at the event.
