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A Year in Rock Creek Park talk by author/ naturalist Melanie Choukas-Bradley
This inspirational talk about the natural history of Rock Creek Park, the oldest and one of the largest urban national parks in the country.
Program title: “A Year in Rock Creek Park” Wednesday, November 18, 7:15-9pmat Historic Takoma, 7328 Carroll Ave, Takoma Park MD 20912Co-sponsored by Takoma Horticultural Club & Friends of Sligo Creek Presented by Melanie Choukas-Bradley, Author/ Naturalist & Visitor from a Neighboring Watershed
This inspirational talk about the natural history of Rock Creek Park, the oldest and one of the largest urban national parks in the country, is based upon the award-winning book, A Year in Rock Creek Park – the Wild, Wooded Heart of Washington DC by Melanie Choukas-Bradley with photographs by Susan Austin Roth. The presentation takes us on a journey through the seasons in the park, with a focus on the native plants of the Rock Creek Park woodlands. Melanie has traveled the 33-mile length of the creek, on foot and cross-country skis, by bicycle and by canoe, and she will describe her adventures. The talk will be illustrated by Susan Austin Roth’s evocative photographs, many of which appear in the book. Celebrate the 125th anniversary of Rock Creek Park, which was created in 1890, the same year Yosemite was established, with our visitor from a neighboring watershed!Melanie Choukas-Bradley is a naturalist, natural history teacher and author of A Year in Rock Creek Park—the Wild, Wooded Heart of Washington, DC, with photographs by Susan Austin Roth. She is also author of City of Trees, illustrated by Polly Alexander and now in its third edition, and two books about Sugarloaf Mountain, Maryland, illustrated by Tina Thieme Brown. Melanie leads field trips and tree tours for the Audubon Naturalist Society, Casey Trees, the Rock Creek Conservancy, the US Botanic Garden, the Maryland and Virginia Native Plant Societies, and other organizations in and around the city. She also has taught native plant identification courses for 9 years through the Natural History Field Studies Program co-sponsored by the Graduate School USA and the Audubon Naturalist Society. Melanie has appeared as a guest author on the Diane Rehm Show, the Kojo Nnamdi Show and All Things Considered. In 2014 she was awarded one of four inaugural Canopy Awards by Casey Trees for her efforts to educate people about the trees of Washington, DC. Her website is: www.melaniechoukas-bradley.com. A YEAR IN ROCK CREEK PARK – The Wild Wooded Heart of Washington, DC was published by George F. Thompson Publishing in November, 2014 in two volumes: a paperback edition containing 32 full page photographs (distributed by the University of Virginia Press) and a limited edition containing 89 photographs. In the spring of 2015 it was awarded an Independent Publishers IPPY award—a silver medal for mid-Atlantic nonfiction. The book is in its second printing.
This event is FREE and open to public. No need to RSVP.
Please bring a snack to share and wear a home-made nametag or onw recycled from another event.
To Join and learn more about the Takoma Horticultural Club, see: http://takomahort.org/
