20s & 30s book club: American Canopy

Activity Type: Social | Local Socials
Difficulty: 1 - Accessible
Trip Leader(s): Catherine Bentsen
Registration Type: Registration
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Audience: 20’s & 30’s

Description: Join AMC Boston 20s & 30s for a nature-themed book club! The book club is held roughly every other month on topics of nature, wildlife, and the environment. In anticipation of America's 250th anniversary this year, our April and June books will explore the intersection of America's history and natural resources. For our June book, we will read the book “American Canopy: Trees, Forests, and the Making of a Nation" by Eric Rutkow. Discussion will be held on Tuesday, June 2 from 7-9pm at Craft Foods Revolution Hall in Lexington. Anyone is welcome to join, whether you’ve read all, part, or none of the book! An interest in the book topic is the only prerequisite for joining.
Synopsis: Like many of us, historians have long been guilty of taking trees for granted. Yet the history of trees in America is no less remarkable than the history of the United States itself--from the majestic white pines of New England, which were coveted by the British Crown for use as masts in navy warships, to the orange groves of California, which lured settlers west.... America--if indeed it existed--would be a very different place without its millions of acres of trees. As American Canopy shows, trees were essential to the early years of the republic and indivisible from the country's rise as both an empire and a civilization. As symbols of liberty, community, and civilization, trees are perhaps the loudest silent figures in our country's history.... Today, few people think about where timber comes from, but most of us share a sense that to destroy trees is to destroy part of ourselves and endanger the future.

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