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SUMMARY:Southwest Reads: Fire Season
DESCRIPTION:Discuss the stories of the Southwest with the Southwest Reads 
 book club\, the 4th Wednesday of every other month! \n\nThis month's read 
 is Fire Season: Field Notes from a Wilderness Lookout by Philip 
 Connors\n\n\n\n\n\n\nA decade ago Philip Connors left work as an editor at 
 the Wall Street Journal and talked his way into a job far from the streets 
 of lower Manhattan: working as one of the last fire lookouts in America. 
 Spending nearly half the year in a 7' x 7' tower\, 10\,000 feet above sea 
 level in remote New Mexico\, his tasks were simple: keep watch over one of 
 the most fire-prone forests in the country and sound the alarm at the first 
 sign of smoke.\n\nFire Season is Connors's remarkable reflection on work\, 
 our place in the wild\, and the charms of solitude. The landscape over 
 which he keeps watch is rugged and roadless — it was the first region in 
 the world to be officially placed off limits to industrial machines — and 
 it typically gets hit by lightning more than 30\,000 times per year. 
 Connors recounts his days and nights in this forbidding land\, untethered 
 from the comforts of modern life: the eerie pleasure of being alone in his 
 glass-walled perch with only his dog Alice for company\; occasional visits 
 from smokejumpers and long-distance hikers\; the strange dance of communion 
 and wariness with bears\, elk\, and other wild creatures\; trips to visit 
 the hidden graves of buffalo soldiers slain during the Apache wars of the 
 nineteenth century\; and always the majesty and might of lightning storms 
 and untamed fire.\n\n\n Pick up a copy of this month's book from the 
 Downtown Library Information Desk. Email 
 libraryprograms@flagstaffpubliclibrary.org or call 928-213-2331 for 
 additional information.\n\n\nTo hear about all our upcoming programs\, sign 
 up for our weekly email blast at tiny.cc/fplnewsletter
LOCATION:Downtown Library Community Room (Capacity 41)\, Downtown Library
ORGANIZER;CN="Mary Corcoran":MAILTO:mcorcoran@flagstaffpubliclibrary.org
CATEGORIES:Book Discussions and Author Talks
CONTACT;CN="Mary Corcoran":MAILTO:mcorcoran@flagstaffpubliclibrary.org
STATUS:CONFIRMED
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URL:https://flagstaffpubliclibrary.libcal.com/event/13054538
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