Many visionaries of the conservation field have lived in Wisconsin throughout their lives. In "Walking Home Ground: In the Footsteps of Muir, Leopold, and Derleth," Robert Root explores the terrain these writers once called home and the writing in which they shared the feelings their walks inspired. He discovers how these writers drew on other writers before them and sometimes on each other. Observing the changes in their landscapes over the past two centuries, he learns how to walk the land where he lives now and how to connect more deeply to his own home ground. Experiencing both the glacial past and the ecological present in a journey across Wisconsin landscapes simultaneously literary and physical, he offers a way for readers and listeners to connect to their own home ground. Robert Root’s nonfiction of place includes the essay collection Postscripts: Retrospections on Time and Place and the travel narratives Recovering Ruth: A Biographer’s Tale, named a Michigan Notable Book 2004 by Library of Michigan; Following Isabella: Travels in Colorado Then and Now; and Walking Home Ground: In the Footsteps of Muir, Leopold, and Derleth. He is also the author of The Nonfictionist’s Guide: On Reading and Writing Nonfiction and the editor of Landscapes With Figures: The Nonfiction of Place. He is a writing coach who lives in Waukesha, Wisconsin and teaches online for the Loft Literary Center in Minnesota.
Friday Apr 20, 2018
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM CDT
Friday, April 20 from noon-1pm
Leopold Center
E13701 Levee Road
Baraboo, Wi 53913
This event is free and open to the public.
Maria Kopecky
Education Coordinator
Aldo Leopold Foundation
608-355-0279 ext.38
Send Email