{"id":1946,"date":"2018-09-20T22:27:47","date_gmt":"2018-09-20T22:27:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/morgan-outdoors.com\/?p=1946"},"modified":"2018-09-20T22:30:27","modified_gmt":"2018-09-20T22:30:27","slug":"john-burroughs-the-spirit-of-the-catskills","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/morgan-outdoors.com\/?p=1946","title":{"rendered":"John Burroughs & the Spirit of the Catskills"},"content":{"rendered":"

Saturday, September 29th<\/a><\/strong><\/h2>\n

3:00pm<\/strong><\/a><\/h2>\n

you’re invited to “John Burroughs & the Spirit of the Catskills”<\/strong><\/p>\n

an introduction to celebrated naturalist John Burroughs with Bill Birns<\/strong> at Morgan Outdoors.<\/p>\n

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Burroughs, born in 1837 on the family’s Delaware County homestead in Roxbury, NY, authored 27 books of natural and philosophical essays that influenced millions of readers. Of particular interest in this presentation are Burroughs explorations and walks in the upper Delaware River watershed, from Woodchuck Lodge<\/a> in Roxbury to Balsam Lake Mountain, and points in between. John Burroughs was in our neighborhood!<\/p>\n

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In the early years of the twentieth century, John Burroughs rivaled Mark Twain as the most widely-read and well-known writer in America.\u00a0 He was a naturalist who wrote nature essays that appeared regularly in America’s top magazines, a poet and literary critic who drew his readers toward a worldview that valued simplicity in living in harmony with nature.\u00a0 His essays appeared in a widely used school reader, so Burroughs was familiar to generations of school children.<\/p>\n

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Author and educator, Bill Birns, is a 47-year resident of the Catskills and taught English at Margaretville Central School and Onteora High School. He authored “A Catskill Catalog”, published by Purple Mountain Press, and “The Myth in the Mountain”, a poetry cycle set in the Catskills.\u00a0\u00a0His latest book, “I Was Corning A Beaver Like You Do: Joe Hewitt, John Burroughs, Mountain Culture” will be available for purchase at Morgan Outdoors, as will \u201cJohn\u00a0 Burroughs Afloat & Afoot\u201d, the first and, so far, only Burroughs audiobook ever published. All proceeds from book sales at Morgan Outdoors will benefit new outdoor amenities at Woodchuck Lodge.<\/p>\n

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Concurrently on display at Morgan Outdoors is the exhibition “Streams: Art in Motion<\/strong>“, which highlights the wonders of the upper Delaware River watershed, in which Burroughs was born, spent many years, and produced beautiful writings.<\/p>\n

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To reserve a seat,\u00a0<\/strong>call\u00a0845 439 5507<\/a>, as seating is limited. Morgan Outdoors is located at\u00a046 Main Street<\/strong><\/a>, Livingston Manor, NY<\/strong><\/a>.<\/a>\u00a0For more information:\u00a0www.morgan-outdoors.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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PHOTO CAPTION<\/strong>: Reminiscing his boyhood, John Burroughs (1837-1921) sits atop his Boyhood Rock, about 1910. The glacial boulder sits in what is now a New York State Memorial to Burroughs, on the hardscrabble Catskill Mountain farm in Roxbury NY where he grew up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Saturday, September 29th 3:00pm you’re invited to “John Burroughs & the Spirit of the Catskills” an introduction to celebrated naturalist John Burroughs with Bill Birns at Morgan Outdoors. Burroughs, born in 1837 on the family’s Delaware County homestead in Roxbury, NY, authored 27 books of natural and philosophical essays that influenced millions of readers. Of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgan-outdoors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgan-outdoors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgan-outdoors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgan-outdoors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgan-outdoors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1946"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/morgan-outdoors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1950,"href":"https:\/\/morgan-outdoors.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1946\/revisions\/1950"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgan-outdoors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgan-outdoors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgan-outdoors.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}