Community Calendar

Read + Hike Book Club is returning! Come discuss themes of ecology and humanity’s relationship with nature with other book and nature lovers in our reading and hiking club! Each month we will go on a leisurely hike with stopping points for book discussion. Some months will have guest lecturers. Participants may choose to come to all the meetings, some meetings, or just one!

August Book: When It All Burns: Fighting Fire in a Transformed World by Jordan Thomas

Margie Ruddick will talk about the link between her award-winning landscape design projects and her conservation work, promoting alternatives for safeguarding wild landscapes. Margie's native landscape, the wild coastal wash of Beach Hampton and Napeague, has influenced both her design work and the conservation initiatives of ONE LANDSCAPE, the collective she founded in 2016. She will present examples of projects that connect to larger ecological and cultural environments, taking a long-term, phased approach to design that is particularly crucial at the moment, given the flux and uncertainty caused by climate change. ONE LANDSCAPE's conservation initiatives at Napeague and in the Western Ghats of India bring together artists, scientists and policy makers to help transform the culture of development into one that places ecological integrity among its core values.

About Margie Ruddick

Margie Ruddick’s pioneering projects in landscape design, in places such as India, China, and Mexico, bridge the worlds of high design and ecology. Winner of the 2013 Cooper Hewitt National Design Award, Margie is also the author of Wild by Design (2016), an early call for rewilding. She is currently working on Restoration, a landscape memoir that looks at what "restoration" means in landscape design and in one's own life. Her non-profit ONE LANDSCAPE collective brings artists, scientists, policy makers, and community members together to collaborate on alternatives to conventional conservation plans for wild landscapes. Margie has taught at Harvard’s GSD, Yale University, The University of Pennsylvania, Parsons School of Design, Princeton University, and Bard College.

Explore one of the area’s biggest book sales, featuring 8,000 like-new books in over 30 categories at bargain prices, all donated from Berkshire homes. You’ll discover books for all ages and interests – book lovers, book dealers, collectors, and kids.

Sale offers a broad selection of collectibles, including signed copies, first editions, and pre-1900 treasures.

All proceeds from this event, the Lenox Library’s Association’s biggest fundraiser of the year, support the library’s programs, materials, and resources. This event is sponsored by the Lenox office of Apella Wealth.

Explore one of the area’s biggest book sales, featuring 8,000 like-new books in over 30 categories at bargain prices, all donated from Berkshire homes. You’ll discover books for all ages and interests – book lovers, book dealers, collectors, and kids.

Sale offers a broad selection of collectibles, including signed copies, first editions, and pre-1900 treasures.

All proceeds from this event, the Lenox Library’s Association’s biggest fundraiser of the year, support the library’s programs, materials, and resources. This event is sponsored by the Lenox office of Apella Wealth.

Read + Hike Book Club is returning! Come discuss themes of ecology and humanity’s relationship with nature with other book and nature lovers in our reading and hiking club! Each month we will go on a leisurely hike with stopping points for book discussion. Some months will have guest lecturers. Participants may choose to come to all the meetings, some meetings, or just one!

September Book: Our Green Heart, the Soul and Science of Forests by Diana Beresford-Kroeger

Read + Hike Book Club is returning! Come discuss themes of ecology and humanity’s relationship with nature with other book and nature lovers in our reading and hiking club! Each month we will go on a leisurely hike with stopping points for book discussion. Some months will have guest lecturers. Participants may choose to come to all the meetings, some meetings, or just one!

October Book: Romp! A Journey Through the Natural History of Otters and Why They Matter by Heide Island, PhD