On Wednesday, February 1 at 7pm, join event co-sponsors, Perrot Memorial Library, Greenwich Tree Conservancy, Greenwich Land Trust and Greenwich Grown, for a book discussion and signing with Author, NYBG Instructor, and Arborist William Bryant Logan. This in-person event, held at Perrot Library, is free but attendees should pre- register for the event here: https://perrotlibrary.org/upcoming-event-perrot-memorial-library-presents-author-bill-logan/
The event will begin at 7pm in the Perrot Youth Services Program Room with wine and cheese with the program beginning promptly at 7:30pm. Bill’s lecture will include topics from his recent books, Oak and Spout Lands. The discussion will be followed by a book signing with books available for sale by Athena Books.
William Bryant Logan is the author of Sprout Lands, Oak, Air and Dirt, the last of which was made into an award-winning documentary. He is on the faculty of the New York Botanical Garden. He has spent the last three decades working in trees. He is a certified arborist, and founder and president of Urban Arborists, Inc., a Brooklyn-based tree company.
Bill has won numerous Quill and Trowel Awards from the Garden Writers of America, and was a contributing editor to House Beautiful, House and Garden, and Garden Design magazines, as well as a regular garden writer for the New York Times. He won a 2012 Senior Scholar Award from the New York State chapter of the International Society of Arboriculture (ISA), as well as a True Professional of Arboriculture award from the international ISA. He also won an NEH grant to translate Calderón de la Barca and has published many translations from the Spanish, including the work of García Lorca, Ramón del Valle Inclán, and Calderón.
“William Bryant Logan’s vision of a world in which humans and trees work together to mutual benefit — a world that has existed in the past and can exist again in the future — is cause for deep joy, for celebration and hope.” —Peter Wohlleben, author of The Hidden Life of Trees
If you have any questions about the event please call Perrot Library at 203-637-1066 x15. Register for the event here: https://perrotlibrary.org/upcoming-event-perrot-memorial-library-presents-author-bill-logan/
