branch of your choice—the one closest to your home or work? If there is a book you want and the library does not have it, you can request they purchase it. Over the years I have never been turned down for any requested book. After you read the book, hundreds, perhaps thousands can enjoy that book when you are done, while utilizing an important service our library system provides. They are supported by our tax money and are there for us. A favorite branch in the Triad is the Kathleen Clay Edwards Branch. This library is dedicated to conservation and education. Besides being tucked away in a wildlife preserve in the heart of Greensboro, it offers secluded hiking trails with hawks that fre- quently fly overhead, a butterfly field and an outdoors setting that invites you to sit on one of their rockers on the wooden front porch to sit a while and enjoy the calm amidst the chaos that is our world. Now, back to NC outdoor writers to explore as you slow
down, embracing the change of season and turn inward this winter. I’ll describe each outdoor/nature writer and you can see if you recognize who there are before learning their names. All are North Carolina based.
~This poet and writer can be forceful when first read, espe- cially his poem, “Wolf Laurel”. He lives in Western NC and believes “nature is universal”, so is a perfect natural metaphor that will be understood by readers two hundred years from now.
www.poetryfoundation.org. One of his most popular works is Raising the Dead. His fourth
collection of poems, Above the Waterfall, a novel based in NC, and Serena, a bestseller that has been made into a movie, is also based in Western North Carolina. An exciting modern day local outdoor writer, poet and novelist. We hope you enjoy Ron Rash
as much as we do!
~ UNCW professor and author of several books, most notably, Return of the Osprey, awarded by the Boston Globe as one of the top ten nonfiction books of the year.
www.uncw.org Boston Globe says, "Return of the Osprey is among the clas-
sics of American nature writing.” If you love first hand accounts of expeditions (think “Into Thin Air” by Jon Krakauer), you may like David Gessner’s (oops it’s out of the bag) “My Green Mani- festo”, his personal account of a rough ride down the Charles River, “searching for the soul of a new environmentalism”. www.
amazon.com . If you love the West and appreciate the forefather’s of great
outdoor, nature and conservation writers, check out Gessner’s “All the Wild that Remains: Edward Abbey, Wallace Stegner, and the American West.”
~Rivers, mountains and the sea….all extreme edges of nature… seem to inspire so many writers, including this next one whose personal account of his paddling trip penned in Down the Wild Cape Fear: A River Journey Through the Heart of North Caro- lina grips the reader on his two hundred mile voyage from the confluence of the Haw and Deep Rivers all the way to Bald Head Island.
www.googlebooks.com He adds historical voices to the book and relates ancestry,
commerce, settlement and war since the region was discovered in 1524. Also a professor at UNCW, another outdoor lover’s novel by the author is “Hatteras Light”, the story of the dedi- cated keepers of the Hatteras lighthouse and their tightknit com- munity.
www.amazon.com who is this “local” mystery author? Philip Gerard.
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~Our next featured NC outdoor writer came to NC to start over and find his way in the world again. He ended up in the Smoky Mountains and described it as: “an Eden still unpeopled and unspoiled.”
www.pbs.org. He hiked and lived alone in a small cabin deep in the woods and began writing what was to become known as “the camper’s bible.” This was before the plethora of guidebooks existed like we know today. His book was adopted by the Boy Scouts and Camping and Woodcraft was used for many years as “the” guide for the outdoors. He worried greatly about logging in the Smokies and became a fierce supporter and champion for the land to be saved as a national forest. The Great Smoky National Park (the most visited National Park in the United States) was established in 1933—tragically, just one year after his death. So, now you may have guessed it: Horace Keph- art. You can hike the Mountains to Sea trail and visit a millstone memorial to Kephart, located in the heart of the Smokies near Bryson City. You’ll have to hike in six miles to reach it….but the view is worth it.
www.postcardsfromthesmokies.com
According to
www.nps.org, we are most fortunate to enjoy
year after year, eleven National Parks in North Carolina alone. They include: Appalachian Scenic Trail, Blue Ridge Parkway, Cape Hatteras National Sea Shore, Cape Lookout National Sea- shore, Carl Sanburg Home NHS, For Raleigh NHS, Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Guilford Courthouse National Military Park, Moores Creek National Battlefield, Trail of Tears National Historic Trail, and Wright Brothers National Memorial. This does not include many more thousands of protected wilderness areas,
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