Join us for stories about the Everglades with authors Anne McCrary Sullivan & Holly Gentzen.
About this event
Join SCCF and MacIntosh Books + Paper for stories from the Everglades with authors Anne McCrary Sullivan and Holly Gentzen. Please use eventbrite to RSVP HERE.
Everglades National Park’s mangrove ecosystem, extending over 230,000 acres of south Florida, is the most expansive in the western hemisphere and the largest continuous system of mangroves in the world. Most of this mangrove area is remote, accessible only by boat, complex and difficult to navigate. Anne and Holly will be telling stories from their newest book, The Everglades: Stories of Grit and Spirit from the Mangrove Wilderness. In the book, we hear 21 stories from people who have ventured into this wilderness—for scientific work, artistic work, search-and-rescue missions, for personal renewal, or for the pure adventure of it. They tell stories of manatee rescue, shark encounters, storms and strandings, stories of environmental value and threat, wild beauty, personal enchantment and spirit. Together these stories reveal a world beyond the reach of most travelers. They also offer support and offer enticement to the intrepid few who may venture “out there” and return with stories of their own.
Books will be available for purchase and signing, with half of the proceeds benefitting SCCF.
About the authors:
Anne McCrary Sullivan
Anne is an avid paddler and Florida Master Naturalist. She is author of Ecology II: Throat Song from the Everglades and co-author of Paddling the Everglades Wilderness Waterway. Professor Emeritus of Interdisciplinary Studies (NLU), Fulbright Scholar and former Poetry Editor of the English Journal, she has articles, chapters and poems in many literary and academic publications. She holds an MFA in Poetry from Warren Wilson College and a PhD in English Education from the University of Florida. She learned to love watery worlds during her childhood on the coast of southeastern coast North Carolina.
Holly Genzen
Holly is a Florida Master Naturalist and holds an M.S.Ed.in Outdoor Education from the University of Akron and a PhD in Educational Administration from Kent State University. She is a retired Associate Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies at National-Louis University. Before moving to Florida she solo thru-hiked the Appalachian Trail, and in the past decade has focused her attention on the water wilderness areas of south Florida. She has co-written a guidebook, Paddling the Everglades Wilderness Waterway, an effort that required extensive research into the social and natural history of the area. An artist, she keeps a daily nature sketchbook and explores the natural world through both oil and watercolor.