As The Twig Is Bent by Wallace Byron Grange, edited by Joseph L. Breitenstein and Richard P. Thiel

Monday, March 14 through Friday, March 25, 2022. Read by Norman Gilliland.

Written when Grange was in his sixties, As the Twig Is Bent conveys how a leading conservationist was formed through his early relationship to nature. Grange’s story vividly describes his mostly idyllic childhood watching bird life in the once grand prairies just west of Chicago. He documents his family’s journey and pioneering struggle to operate a farm on the logged cutover country in northern Wisconsin, a land that provided him with abundant opportunities to study the lives of wild creatures he loved most. As he develops his own understanding of the natural world, he comes to an awareness of the dramatic and devastating role of humankind on ecosystems.

(University of Wisconsin Press; ISBN-10:‎ 029932950X / ISBN-13: ‎978-0299329501)

Theme: Fantasia On Greensleeves, Academy of St. Martin In The Fields. Frederick Delius: On A Hearing The First Cuckoo In Spring; George Butterworth: Two English Idylls