We have the opportunity to share with you the live poetry reading by acclaimed writer and trained biologist Barbara Kingsolver. Barbara has generously offered a personalized, signed copy of the limited edition How to Fly (In Ten Thousand Easy Lessons) with each $100 donation to Blue Ridge Discovery Center. Make a Contribution Now

On Friday night, in place of our traditional featured speaker, Kingsolver settled into the Blue Ridge Discovery Center cottage to read from her forthcoming poetry book for a remote, online audience of Naturalist Rally participants. This featured presentation of the Mt. Rogers Naturalist Rally offered viewers an inspiring perspective of the natural world - a world that is not separate from us, but which includes us. And if we are part of it, shouldn’t we know a bit more about it?

How can we see the wonders of nature, the interconnectedness of organisms through a biologist’s eyes? How can we know that the unusual, white ghost pipes popping up from the forest floor aren’t mushrooms or that the brainless mussel has such an intelligent reproductive strategy? How can we be hopeful and let that hope fuel a stronger future?

There’s just one easy step: read Barbara Kingsolver’s new book of poems. How to Fly (In Ten Thousand Easy Lessons) is due to be released September 22, 2020.