Earth Day Lecture
Radical Walking
Jack Turner
Thursday, April 8, 7:00 pm

Philosopher, mountaineer, environmentalist, and author Jack Turner has been called "our century's John Muir." Author of the previously acclaimed books The Abstract Wild and Teewinot: A Year in the Teton Range, Turner says his new book of essays "has to do with how we order space." New perspectives, derived from methods such as "radical walking", can help us break free of old concepts of space derived from linear maps of property and taxation.

Jack Turner has been a mountain guide for 36 years with the Exum Mountain Guides in the Grand Tetons. A graduate of the University of Colorado and Cornell University, Turner taught philosophy for the University of Illinois and has been a part of 40 expeditions and treks to Pakistan, Peru, Nepal, China, Tibet, and India.

• The Abstract Wild: Chapter 1 An excerpt from Turner's first book published the University of Arizona Press.
• The Essence of the Wild An essay by Jack Turner featured and archived by Patagonia.
• Exum Mountain Guides Jack Turner has guided in the Tetons with them for 36 years.

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The Great Books Book Club
The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer
Tuesday, April 27, 7:00 pm

The Great Books Book Club continues with this month's discussion of Chaucer's The Canterbury Tales. Lee Brown will lead the discussion, which will focus on the prologue and two of the often called "marriage tales", told by the Wife of Bath and the Merchant (amusingly debating the pros and cons of marriage).

Dr. Brown, a Fulbright Scholar with Ph.D.'s in political philosophy and geohydrology, was a professor at San Diego State University and Grossmont College for 30 years. The Great Books Book Club meets on the fourth Tuesday of every month, and all are invited to join in the discussions.

• The Geoffrey Chaucer Web Site The life of Chaucer, a chronology of the times, texts from The Canterbury Tales, and more from Harvard University.
• Views of the Original Texts Images of the original texts printed ca. 1476 and 1483 and now stored in The British Library.
• The Canterbury Tales: Reader Friendly Edition  A version put into modern spelling by Michael Murphy at Brooklyn College of the City University of New York.

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