Biophilia Book Club: Trace

Tue. Nov 12, 2019 at 6:30pm EST
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Biophilia Book Club
will discuss

Trace: Memory, History, Race, and the American Landscape
by Lauret Savoy
on 
Tuesday, November 12th
at the Frick Environmental Center


***Community Potluck dinner will begin at 6:30 with the book discussion to follow***


About the Book:
Sand and stone are Earth's fragmented memory. Each of us, too, is a landscape inscribed by memory and loss. One life-defining lesson Lauret Savoy learned as a young girl was this: the American land did not hate. As an educator and Earth historian, she has tracked the continent’s past from the relics of deep time; but the paths of ancestors toward her—paths of free and enslaved Africans, colonists from Europe, and peoples indigenous to this land—lie largely eroded and lost.


In this provocative and powerful mosaic of personal journeys and historical inquiry across a continent and time, Savoy explores how the country’s still unfolding history, and ideas of “race,” have marked her and the land. From twisted terrain within the San Andreas Fault zone to a South Carolina plantation, from national parks to burial grounds, from “Indian Territory” and the U.S.-Mexico Border to the U.S. capital, Trace grapples with a searing national history to reveal the often unvoiced presence of the past.


In distinctive and illuminating prose that is attentive to the rhythms of language and landscapes, she weaves together human stories of migration, silence, and displacement, as epic as the continent they survey, with uplifted mountains, braided streams, and eroded canyons.


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Potluck Tips:

*You are still welcome even if you don’t bring anything

*Aim to bring enough food for 6-8 people

*Bonus points for bringing your own dishes & silverware (but we have plenty here)

*Please label your ingredients so that everyone can safely participate

*Bring a friend 

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Frick Environmental Center 2005 Beechwood Boulevard
Pittsburgh, PA 15217
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