The Home Place: A One Night Book Club

Join fellow nature enthusiasts in a guided discussion of The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man’s Love Affair with Nature by award winning author and wildlife ecologist J. Drew Lanham. This one night only book club meets – you guessed it – just once. For the best experience, read the whole book, but feel free to join us even if you can only read a little bit. Copies of the book are available for order directly from the publisher here or at independent bookstores here.

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Advance registration required / FREE / Donations always appreciated

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Author Bio:

A native of Edgefield, South Carolina, J. Drew Lanham is the author of The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man’s Love Affair with Nature, which received the Reed Award from the Southern Environmental Law Center and the Southern Book Prize, and was a finalist for the John Burroughs Medal. He is a birder, naturalist, and hunter-conservationist who has published essays and poetry in publications including Orion, Audubon, Flycatcher, and Wilderness, and in several anthologies, including The Colors of Nature, State of the Heart, Bartram’s Living Legacy, and Carolina Writers at Home. An Alumni Distinguished Professor of Wildlife Ecology and Master Teacher at Clemson University, he and his family live in the Upstate of South Carolina, a soaring hawk’s downhill glide from the southern Appalachian escarpment that the Cherokee once called the Blue Wall.