Bartholomew’s Cobble Winter Speaker Series

Please join The Trustees of Reservations for a series of presentations in the Visitor Center. All talks are free and open to the public. Pre-registration is encouraged. Bartholomew’s Cobble Visitor Center is located at Weatogue Road, Sheffield, MA, off Routes 7 & &7A, south of the center of Sheffield. For more information, please call 412.229.8600 or e-mail bcobble@ttor.org.

What’s up with Bats? Tues., Jan. 12, 6-7pm. MA Fish & Wildlife Biologist Andrew Madden shares the latest on bats, white nose syndrome and more.

Arrowheads I Have Found. Thur. Feb 11, 6-7pm. Sheffield resident Warren Wilcox shares his extensive arrowhead collection and his stories.

Traces of Slavery: Colonel Ashley’s Papers. Sun., Feb 28, 2-3:30pm. Colonel Ashley’s account books from the late 1700s offer a look at the experience of slavery in Sheffield. Find out what historians are discovering.

Taconic Range Rattlesnake Survey Results. Thurs., Mar. 11, 6-7pm. Tom Tyning and Anne Stengle share results of radio telemetry research.

Rare Plants: Calcareous Cobbles to Coastal Plains. Thurs., Mar. 25, 6-7pm. Mass. Natural Heritage Endangered Species Program Botanist Jennifer Garrett shares slides of rare Massachusetts plants.

The talks are FREE. Donations are welcome. Light refreshments will be served. Pre-registration encouraged to 413.229.8600 or bcobble@ttor.org. For directions, please call or check www.thetrustees.org.

From Erik Hoffner, Orion Grassroots Network: There are still tickets left for Mark Hertsgaard's lecture next Monday [January 11th]. Mark is a great environmental journalist and has just returned from the Copenhagen conference and his talk will be quite interesting and informative.  If people cannot get to either of the places to pick up tickets, they suggest you come the night of and they'll do their best to seat you. There are still some audience tix left at both the Berkshire Museum and Monument Mtn. High school and can be picked up during regular business hours. Details on Mark and his talk are below.

 

The J. Leo Dowd & Catherine Mellon Dowd Lecture Series

225 East Road, Alford, MA  01266

(413) 528 – 0625

email:  haaseastrd@hughes.net 

                              Tel. (413) 528-0625;  FAX (413) 528-0684    

Mark Hertsgaard, an internationally renowned environmental journalist and author who will be returning from covering the United Nations climate summit in Copenhagen, will speak at the J. Leo & Catherine Mellon Dowd Lecture Series.

GREAT BARRINGTON-  Fresh from covering the Copenhagen climate summit for The Nation and Marketplace radio, Mark Hertsgaard will be discussing the outlook for reversing and coping with climate change on Monday, January 11, 2010 when he addresses the Dowmel Lecture Series at 7:30 p.m. at Monument Mountain High School.  The Copenhagen summit is regarded as humanity’s last chance to avert catastrophic climate change, and the world has looked to President Barack Obama to provide new leadership after eight years of Washington foot-dragging.  The moderator for this evening of the Dowmel Lecture Series is Laura Dubester, co-director for the Center for Ecological Technology (CET).

Hertsgaard is the author of six books on politics, culture and the environment that have been translated into fifteen languages. Among them:  The Eagle's Shadow: Why America Fascinates and Infuriates the World (2002), Earth Odyssey:  Around the World In Search of Our Environmental Future (1998) and On Bended Knee:  The Press and the Reagan Presidency (1988).  His forthcoming book is Generation Hot:  Living Through the Storm of Climate Change (2010). 

An independent journalist based in San Francisco, Hertsgaard has covered climate change for twenty years for such publications as Vanity Fair, The Nation, Time, The New Yorker, L’espresso and Die Zeit and has written for many of the world's leading newspapers and magazines.  He has contributed regular radio commentaries to Morning Edition (NPR), Marketplace (American Public Media) and Living On Earth (Public Radio International).  He is the environment correspondent for The Nation, the political correspondent for the national satellite channel Link TV and a Fellow of the Open Society Institute.

More information is available at markhertsgaard.com. 

Tickets for the lecture will be available at 2 per person and at no charge on a first come first served basis commencing Friday, December 18, 2009 at the Berkshire Museum, and  Saturday, December 19, 2009 at Monument Mountain Regional High School as long as tickets are available. Doors at the Berkshire Museum will open at 7 a.m. and ticket distribution will commence at 8 a.m.  Doors at Monument Mountain Regional High School will open at 7 a.m. and ticket distribution will commence at 8:30 a.m.  Doors at the high school will close at 9 a.m.  People will be seated in the auditorium in the order in which they arrive.  If tickets are remaining after the initial distribution period, they will be distributed during regular museum or school business hours. The lecture series is appropriate for children 14 years and older.  No one under this age will be given tickets when they are distributed. Cafeteria tickets will be numbered at the time of distribution, and those numbers will be honored the night of the lecture.   

Please note that no telephone reservations can be accepted, nor is there is a mailing list.  For further information about the series, please call the Dowmel Foundation at (413) 528-5486, or consult the Berkshire Museum’s website at http://www.berkshiremuseum.org and Monument Mountain Regional High School at www. bhrsd.org.