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Join us Sunday, September 26th at 3 PM for two authors - Sy Montgomery reads from her latest, "Birdology", and her husband, Howard Mansfield, reads from his new book, "Turn & Jump: How Time and Place Fell Apart".

To research books, films and articles, Sy Montgomery has been chased by an angry silverback gorilla in Zaire and bitten by a vampire bat in Costa Rica, worked in a pit crawling with 18,000 snakes in Manitoba and handled a wild tarantula in French Guiana. She has been deftly undressed by an orangutan in Borneo, hunted by a tiger in India, and swum with piranhas, electric eels and dolphins in the Amazon. She has searched the Altai Mountains of Mongolia’s Gobi for snow leopards and hiked into the trackless cloud forest of Papua New Guinea to radiocollar tree kangaroos.

For her newest book, BIRDOLOGY, Sy bashed through the Australian rainforest to meet up with the most dangerous bird in the world, the 150-pound cassowary. She took years of falconry lessons; worked with a wildlife rehabilitator to raise and release orphaned baby hummingbirds; and shares 20 years of living with affectionate and individualistic hens. BIRDOLOGY is an exploration of the essence of birds through adventures with seven species.

She is a 1979 graduate of Syracuse University, a triple major with dual degrees in Magazine Journalism from the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications and in French Language and Literature and in Psychology from the College of Arts and Sciences. She was awarded an honorary Doctor of Letters by the University System of New Hampshire Board of Trustees, conferred at the commencement ceremonies at Keene State College in Keene, N.H. in May, 2004.

Writing about preservation, architecture and American history, Howard Mansfield has contributed toThe New York Times, American Heritage, The Washington Post, Historic Preservation, Yankee and other publications. Mansfield has explored issues of preservation in five books, including In the Memory House, of which The Hungry Mind Review said, "Now and then an idea suddenly bursts into flame, as if by spontaneous combustion. One instance is the recent explosion of American books about the idea of place.... But the best of them, the deepest, the widest-ranging, the most provocative and eloquent is Howard Mansfield's In the Memory House."

Mansfield's work has been honored with the Gold Medal for Commentary for the City and Regional Magazine competition. He is on the advisory board of the Monadnock Institute of Nature, Place and Culture at Franklin Pierce College, chair of the local Library Trustees, and an occasional guest on radio and TV shows commenting on issues of historic preservation. He has been a keynote speaker at preservation conferences, and spoken to many historical societies, art museums, and colleges. He was graduated from Syracuse University in 1979 with a dual degree: Magazine Journalism and Honors in American Studies. He was one of two undergraduates to be awarded the Chancellor's Citation for Exceptional Academic Achievement. He and his wife, the writer Sy Montgomery, live in a 120-year-old house that they have left mostly alone.

Birdology: Adventures with a Pack of Hens, a Peck of Pigeons, Cantankerous Crows, Fierce Falcons, Hip Hop Parrots, Baby Hummingb (Hardcover)

By Sy Montgomery

$25.00

ISBN-13: 9781416569848
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Free Press, 5/2010

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Turn & Jump: How Time & Place Fell Apart (Hardcover)

By Howard Mansfield

$24.95

ISBN-13: 9780892728169
Availability: Usually Ships in 1-5 days
Published: Down East Books, 8/2010

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