Explore the Wild Outside Your Door

PRESS RELEASE

 

AlamedaSealFinalColor1October 24, 2016

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

 

Contact:

Cosette Ratliff, Supervising Librarian, 510-747-7716

Jane Chisaki, Library Director, 510-747-7747

 

 

 

Explore the Wild Outside Your Door

 

The Alameda Free Library is proud to welcome local East Bay author Nathanael Johnson for a Talk and Walk, as part of the Libraries Outside program on November 12, 2016 at 11:00am.

 

Mr. Johnson will speak about his book Unseen City, and then walk with us to help us learn how to see and explore the small wonders that surround us, even in the most “civilized” areas of a town. Unseen City has been praised in the San Francisco Chronicle, the Washington Post, and by the Associated Press as a “modern classic of nature writing”.

 

“No matter where we live―city, country, oceanside, or mountains― there are wonders that we walk past every day. Unseen City widens the pinhole of our perspective by allowing us to view the world from the high-altitude eyes of a turkey vulture and the distinctly low-altitude eyes of a snail”. (Amazon.com)

 

The event will begin at the Main Library, 1550 Oak Street in Alameda, and move from there out into the town itself for exploration. Everyone is welcome at this free event and families are especially invited to attend. Please RSVP to the Main Library Reference Desk at 510-747-7713 or refdesk@alamedaca.gov.

 

Libraries Outside is a program of the Alameda Free Library that provides access to information and materials, through circulating daypacks, in-house events and talks, and outings across the Bay Area, which make it easier for our community to get back outdoors.

 

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