An Evening with Gary Nabhan and Richard Knight
Category: Event Calendar
Date and Time
- Thursday, Mar 20, 2025 7pm - 8pm
Location
Old Firehouse Books
232 Walnut Street
Details
Join us at Old Firehouse Books as we welcome Gary Nahban in celebration of his newest release, Against the American Grain! Gary will be joined by Richard Knight IN STORE on March 20th, 2025 from 6-7:00pm. We ask that if you'd like a copy signed, to wait until the end of the event where we will have time for personalization. Books are available for order in store or online. Unfortunately we do not ship internationally.
About the book:
A century ago, William Carlos Williams's In the American Grain profiled Anglo, French, and Spanish conquistadors, tyrants, preachers, and thought leaders who first shaped American culture. Since then, waves of resistance and disruptive innovation have flooded into the rest of America from the arid, southwestern margins of the US-Mexico borderlands. Now, in Against the American Grain, Gary Paul Nabhan--cultural ecologist, environmental historian, and lyric poet of the American Southwest--illuminates the outlines of a history too long in the shadows. Whether Indigenous, LatinX, priests, nuns, Quakers, or cross-cultural chameleons, it is the resisters, performers, grassroots organizers, nomads, and spiritual leaders from the desert margins who are constantly reshaping America. They have, against all odds, recolored and recovered the future of North America through outrageous acts of resistance. After reading the stories of Estevanico el Moro, Maria de âAgreda, Teresita de Câabora, Coyote Iguana, Woody Guthrie, Tim X. Hernandez, Cesar Chavez, Dolores Huerta, Reyes Lopez Tijerana, Arturo Sandoval, Lalo Guererro, John Fife, Danny and Luis Valdez, John Steinbeck and Ed Ricketts, and many more, we can never think about America the same way again. In Nabhan's magisterial, radical recounting, cross-cultural collaborations have changed the grain of American life to one that is many-colored, once again flourishing with fragrance, faith, and fecund ideas
About Gary Nabhan:
Gary is an ethnobotanist by trade and a bestselling author of books that cross multiple disciplines, including Agave Spirits, the James Beard award winning book from 2023. His new book, Against the American Grain is a collection of profiles of extraordinary Borderlands individuals from John Steinbeck to Dolores Huerta, Woody Guthrie to Cesar Chavez, and many more. From our press release: “Whether Indigenous, LatinX, priests, nuns, Quakers, or cross-cultural chameleons, it is the resisters, performers, grassroots organizers, nomads, and spiritual leaders from the desert margins who are constantly reshaping America. They have, against all odds, recolored and recovered the future of North America through outrageous acts of resistance
About Richard Knight:
Richard Knight works at the intersection of land use and land health in the American West. A
professor of wildlife conservation at Colorado State University, he received his graduate degrees
from the University of Washington and the University of Wisconsin. He sits on a number of
boards including the Colorado Cattlemen’s Agricultural Land Trust, the Science Board of the
Malpai Borderlands Group, The Partnership of Rangeland Trusts, The Land Conservation
Assistance Network, and the Colorado Land Library. He was formerly on the Board of Editors
for both Conservation Biology, and for Ecological Applications. In 2007 Colorado State
University honored him with the Broad of Governors Excellence in Teaching award. He is a
five-time recipient of the Student’s Choice for Favorite Faculty Member in the Warner College
of Natural Resources. His most recent book (2020) is Twenty-five Years of Keeping Working
Lands in Working Hands: The Story of the Colorado Cattlemen’s Agricultural Land Trust.
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