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In The Promise of Sunrise: Finding Solace in a Broken World, a former Bronx Zoo zoologist and award-winning nature writer, Ted Levin, spent Covid rediscovering his valley and the joys of watching the season pass, day by day by day. The book is a chronicle of his rediscovery of the Thetford, Vermont hillside on which he lived and a recounting of the daily joys of observing home ground as Levin (like many of us) was forced by Covid to stay home for nearly two years. In the end, he sold his home and moved to Hurricane Hill in Hartford, Vermont, which ends the narrative, although he continues the same routine.
A lifelong naturalist and Yankee fan, Ted Levin follows a trail blazed by John Burroughs and John Muir, neither of whom paid baseball much attention. His work has appeared in Audubon, Sierra, Sports Illustrated, The New York Times, Newsday, The Boston Globe, The Guardian, and The Daily Telegraph, among many other publications. He is the author of Backtracking: The Way of Naturalist (1987), Blood Brook: A Naturalist’s Home Ground (1992), and Liquid Land: A Journey Through the Florida Everglades (2003), among other works of nonfiction. He won the Burroughs Medal in 2004, the highest literary honor awarded to an American nature writer. E. O. Wilson called America’s Snake: The Rise and Fall of the Timber Rattlesnake (2016) a beautifully written book [that] demonstrates just how good nature literature can be. Ted divides his time between the deck and the road.
Jeanette Fournier is a self-taught artist whose watercolor paintings are inspired by her passion for and love of the natural world. She specializes in illustrative drawings and paintings of animals, birds, and nature, which reflect a distinct and original style. She is drawn to create art of the creatures in our world so we will remember them and our innate connection to nature. In the same ways in which we are drawn to be in nature, she wants you to be drawn into the nature of her art. Jeanette’s work has been accepted in numerous regional and national watercolor exhibitions and has twice been a finalist in the Artist Magazine Annual Competition. In addition to the Society of Animal Artists, she is a member of the Copley Society of Art, a Signature Member of the New England Watercolor Society, North East Watercolor Society, and the Vermont Watercolor Society. She is an Associate member of the American Watercolor Society.
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Questions? Contact Nancy at: 603-795-0660 or nancy(at)northernwoodlands.org.