Thursday, June 27, 7pmVassar College, Taylor Hall 203

Award-winning author and historian Douglas

Brinkley gives his first public talk on literary natu-ralist and Hudson Valley native John Burroughs.Burroughs' nature essays influenced the emergingconservation movement of the early 20th Century— as did his friendships with national leaders.

Dr. Brinkley is a professor of history at Rice University, a CBSNews commentator, and a contributing editor at Vanity Fair mag-azine. He is the author of the acclaimed Wilderness Warrior:Theodore Roosevelt and the Crusade for America and is currently

writing Franklin D. Roosevelt: the Renewal of America.

Updates at JohnBurroughsAssociation.orgDirections and campus map at http://info.vassar.edu/visit/

DOUGLAS BRINKLEY

John Burroughs

& Wild America

Sponsored by the John Burroughs Association and hosted bythe Department of Earth Science and Geography at VassarCollege. Open to the public at no charge.

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