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Adkins Arboretum Book Club

The Adkins Arboretum book club promotes the Arboretum's mission through monthly book discussions about conservation issues. Meetings are held at the Arboretum on Wednesday evenings from 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. except where noted in the schedule below. Readings include nonfiction, fiction, essays, biography, and poetry, and will focus on horticulture, natural history, science, ecology, history, and environmental issues. Members share leading discussions of their readings.

Membership is limited to 15 participants; Adkins Arboretum membership is required. Please contact Carol Jelich at if you are interested in joining.

2008 Book Club Schedule

          Tuesday, January 15, 2:00 p.m.

          Tuesday, February 19, 2:30 p.m.

          Wednesday, March 19 6:30 p.m.

          Wednesday, April 16, 6:30 p.m.

          Wednesday, May 21, 6:30 p.m.

          Thursday, June 18, 6:30 p.m.

          Wednesday, July 16, 6:30 p.m.

          August -- no meeting

          Wednesday, September 17, 6:30 p.m.

          Wednesday, October 15, 6:30 p.m.

          Tuesday, November 18, 2:30 p.m.

          Tuesday, December 16, noon

2008 Book Club Selections

          January – Old Herbaceous, by Reginald Arkell

          February – Animal, Vegetable, Mineral, by Barbara Kingsolver

          March – Bringing Nature Home, by Douglas Tallamy

          April – Crickets and Katydids, Concerts and Solos, by Vincent Dethier

          May – Gathering Moss, by Robin Wald Kimmerer

          June – Letters from Eden, by Julie Zickefoose

          July – American Chestnut, by Susan Frienkel

          September – John and William Bartram’s America, edited by Helen Gere Cruickshank

          August - no meeting

          October – Teaming with Microbes, by Jeff Lowenfels & Wayne Lewis

          November – The Golden Spruce, by John Vaillaint

          December – Selection Meeting and Luncheon

          January 2009—Sand County Almanac, Aldo Leopold

Adkins Arboretum Book Club Selections 2004-2007
Listed in the Order Read

          2004

          Botany of Desire, by Michael Pollan
         Sand County Almanac, selections, Aldo Leopold
         Orchid Thief, by Susan Orlean

         2005

         Silent Spring, by Rachel Carson.
         Coming Out of the Woods, by Wallace Kaufman.
          Prodigal Summer, by Barbara Kingsolver
          North with the Spring, by Edwin Way Teale
          Stirring the Mud, by Barbara Hurd
          Ship Fever, by Andrea Barrett
          Diversity of Life, by E.O. Wilson
          Encounters with the Archdruid, by John McPhee
          How to Grow Wildflowers & Wild Shrubs & Trees in Your Own Garden, by Hal Bruce

         2006

         Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, by Annie Dillard
         Bay Country, by Tom Horton
         Plants, People, Culture, by Michael Balick and Paul Cox
         Underground, by Yvonne Baskin
         Book of Bees, by Sue Hubbell
         Last Child in the Woods, by Richard Louv
         Voyage of the Beagle, by Charles Darwin
         Suburban Safari, by Hannah Holmes
         Omnivore’s Dilemma, by Michael Pollan

        2007

        Winter World, by Bernd Heinrich

        Light on Snow, by Anita Shreve

        Gaia’s Garden, Home Scale Permaculture, by Toby Hemenway

        Beautiful Swimmers, by William Warner

        Teaching the Trees, by Joan Maloof

        Cloudspotters Guide, by Gavin Pretor-Pinney

        Second Nature, by Michael Pollan

        Song of the Meadowlark: Exploring Values for a Sustainable Future, by James Eggert

        A Forest Journey, Role of Wood in the Development of Civilization, by John Perlin

        Ecology of a Cracker Childhood, by Janisse Ray

        There’s a Hair in My Dirt, by Gary Larson