Thu, Dec 16
|Zoom
Brooke Williams, Mary Jane Wild: Two Walks and a Rant
Brooke Williams walked twice into Southern Utah’s Mary Jane Wilderness: at the beginning of the Trump presidency, which will be seen as among the most tumultuous and destructive in American History, and four-years later at its end. Brooke will be in conversation with Christy Williams Dunton.
Date, Time & Location
Dec 16, 2021, 6:00 PM MST
Zoom
About the Event
This event will take place on Zoom, please register here.
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In Mary Jane Wild Brooke documents his experience in this magical place, his sense of what happened during the Trump dynasty, why, and its possible long-term effects. It is also his story of how walking in the wilderness heals, helps him identify, then adapt to changing modern conditions, and understand the role wildness continues to play in the evolution of life.
"Of all the reactions to the ugly shock of Trump's election in 2016, Brooke Williams' may be the best: his walk into the ancient order of the desert wild, and into the modern craziness of the American mind, is at turns hilarious, wrenching, and full of the kind of intense engagement that we need in order to endure (and even surmount) our present trials." -Bill McKibben, author of The End of Nature
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