Parks & Nature
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Wild & Scenic Film Festival
To celebrate Earth Day and OARS’ 40th anniversary, we are bringing the Wild & Scenic Film Festival to Concord, where three remarkable rivers meet, and America’s roots run deep. In partnerships with friends and local organizations, we are hosting five days of community-focused events in and around Concord Center, including film screenings, art installations, guest speakers, outdoor walks, and a 3-day cross-town scavenger hunt. Join us for an inspirational, educational, always wild, and sure to be scenic five days in Concord!
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On Becoming an Osprey with David Gessner
David Gessner is the author of thirteen books that blend a love of nature, humor, memoir, and environmentalism, including the New York Times bestselling All the Wild That Remains. Gessner is a professor at University of North Carolina Wilmington, where he also founded the literary magazine Ecotone. This year marks the 25th anniversary of David Gessner’s Return of the Osprey, which the Boston Globe hailed as “a classic of American nature writing” and chose as one of its top books of the year.
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What Does It Mean to Love a Forest?: Ethan Tapper in conversation with Brian Donahue
Only those who love trees should cut them, writes forester Ethan Tapper. In How to Love a Forest, he asks: what does it mean to live in a time in which ecosystems are in retreat and extinctions rattle the bones of the earth? Join Ethan Tapper, forester, author, birder, naturalist, and digital creator as he explores what it means to love a forest.
March 6 at 7:00 pm
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Each Town Should Have a Park: 100 New National Parks for America with Michael Kellett
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Benefit for OARS
Three Stones Gallery will host a benefit for OARS, a non-profit organization whose mission is to protect, improve, and preserve the Sudbury, Assabet, and Concord Rivers, their tributaries and watersheds, for public recreation, water supply, and wildlife habitat.
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Thoreau Prize Honoring J. Drew Lanham
Join the Thoreau Society for a presentation by this year’s Thoreau Prize winner, J. Drew Lanham, followed by a book signing. Joseph Drew Lanham is an ornithologist, naturalist, writer, and poet combining conservation science with personal, historical, and cultural narratives of nature.
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Experience Emerson Out of Doors: Autumn Garden Tour
It's the perfect season to stroll the garden and grounds of the beautiful Emerson House. September 26 (rain date September 27)
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"Thoreau, Landscape Scale Wildlands & Natural Democracy"
Join the Walden Woods Project and RESTORE: The North Woods as wilderness activist Jamie Sayen presents "Thoreau, Landscape Scale Wildlands & Natural Democracy." Thoreau proposed the establishment of reserves decades before the designation of the first national parks. Discover what is being done - and not done - to protect and preserve the ecological integrity of the land. September 18
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