Wilderness House Literary Retreat is pleased to announce Lunch with John Hanson Mitchell, nature writer on June 10th 2006 Noon till 4 P.M.

Wilderness house continues its tradition of inviting well known authors and poets for an intimate lunch at Wilderness House, a 7-bedroom cabin located high atop a hill in the middle of a 200 acre estate managed by the New England Forestry Foundation. On June 10th 2006 John Hanson Mitchell, editor of Sanctuary a publication of the Massachusetts Audubon Society, will be our guest for lunch. Mr. Mitchell’s works include Ceremonial Time, a fifteen thousand year history of the area around Littleton MA, Walking Towards Walden, Trespassing, and A Field Guide to Your Own Backyard.

Littleton, MA (PRWEB) May 16, 2006 -- John Hanson Mitchell has concentrated much of his work on a square mile tract of land known as Scratch Flat, located 35 miles northwest of Boston. He has written four books dealing with the natural and human history of the tract, the best known of which is Ceremonial Time, a fifteen thousand year history of the area. Other books, including Walking Towards Walden, Trespassing, and A Field Guide to Your Own Backyard, deal with the local environment and the nature of the idea of place, a constant theme for Mitchell.

Mitchell's more recent works depart from his usual themes. His book 1998 book The Wildest Place on Earth uses his own Scratch Flat garden to explore the curious relationship between Italian gardens and the invention of the American wilderness.

Following the Sun, (2002) is the story of a 1500 mile bicycle journey he made from Cadiz, in southern Spain, to the Outer Hebrides off the west coast of Scotland, tracking the myths, legends, and natural history of the sun all along the route.

In the late 1970s Mitchell discovered over 2000 glass plate negatives in the attic of an old estate in Lincon, Massachusetts. After years of research, in 2004, he published Looking for Mr. Gilbert the story of his attempts to dig out the facts of the life a turn of the last century African American man who was in effect the first black landscape photographer.

He is currently at work on a book about Corsica.

June 10th at Wilderness House, 32 Foster Street (Wilderness Road), Littleton MA $10.00, a cookout will be available.

Link to Publication: http://www.wildernesshouse.org

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