An Evening with William Brewster: Readings from the Journals of an Ornithologist
Join York County Audubon and bird watcher Dianne Ballon for readings from the journals of ornithologist William Brewster!
Reservations
Special Instructions
This program will be presented in-person in Mather Auditorium, and will also be live-streamed via Zoom. It will be free and open to all ages, and no registration is required for attending the program in person. To view via Zoom, you’ll need to register in advance. To do so, please click on this link and enter your name and email address: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_BzbK_hTARDaHEQy9Zybjtw
After registering, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
Pricing
- Cost: Free with admission
Location
Mather Auditorium
Birdwatcher (and sound artist) Dianne Ballon has been wanting to present An Evening with William Brewster ever since she found a copy of Concord River: Selections from the Journals of William Brewster, Harvard University Press, 1937. His observations and explorations are quietly extraordinary.
William Brewster (1851-1919) was a renowned naturalist, conservationist and ornithologist. He worked as a curator at Harvard’s Museum of Comparative Zoology, and gifted a lifetime of bird observations to Harvard. He co-founded the American Ornithologists Union and the Nuttall Ornithological Club, and served as the first president of Mass Audubon.
Brewster’s collection of diaries, journals, correspondence and photographs are a trove of valuable scientific data and a delightful account of his years exploring the woods, fields, rivers, and lakes of New England.
Join York County Audubon for an evening of readings from the bird observations of William Brewster. We will hear from two Harvard archivists from the Ernst Mayr Library, Museum of Comparative Zoology, who continue to work on the Brewster collection. We will hear from the Executive Director of the Museums of the Bethel Historical Society on Brewster’s connection to Maine. And then, we’ll settle in for an evening of late nineteenth-century bird observations up and down the Concord River.