WHERE: Otter Creek Gorge, the northern parking lot on Morgan Horse Farm Road. 

WHEN: Monday, October 3 and Monday, October 24, 5:00 PM – 6:15 PM 

Rain dates: October 17 and November 7 

COST: Free 

WHO: Readers of all ages 

REGISTER: Register here. 

WHAT: The Overstory, winner of the 2019 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction, is a sweeping, impassioned work of activism and resistance that is also a stunning evocation of the natural world. Richard Powers’s twelfth novel unfolds in concentric rings of interlocking fables that range from antebellum New York to the late twentieth-century Timber Wars of the Pacific Northwest and beyond. This is the story of a handful of people who learn how to see that world and who are drawn into its unfolding catastrophe. 

 Join Renee Ursitti (Adult Services and Circulation Librarian, Ilsley Public Library) and Simon Schreier (Education Manager, Middlebury Area Land Trust) for a lively discussion of this epic ecological narrative. We will meet in Otter Creek Gorge, underneath an ancient and beloved oak tree. 

 Come prepared for a short walk over a mowed field. Bring water and a picnic chair. There are no facilities on site – please plan accordingly.