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SUMMARY:Near The Forest\, By The Lake With Angela E. Douglas
DESCRIPTION:Meet Angela E. Douglas\, the biologist and author of Near the Forest\, By the Lake\, a collection of essays about the natural world\, and the wonders of life in her little corner of Upstate New York. \nI am fortunate to live close to a natural world dominated by forests and woodlands\, and by lakes and ponds. Being a writerly sort of person\, I find myself expressing my enthusiasm in words. As I walk in a local landscape\, something attracts my attention and sets me thinking about the biology or history or some quirky feature of a particular species or location. Rafts of ducks take up residence on the lake in winter\, sycamore trees shed great chunks of bark in the summer heat\, swallows nest in tree snags marking a beaver pond\, and the hush of a hemlock grove muffles the sound of the nearby creek. Our task is only to pay attention to the natural world close to home: to appreciate the great diversity of organisms\, to take pleasure in the familiar and the unexpected\, to value what each season brings\, and to acknowledge the impact of human activities on our world\, for both good and ill. \nBio: The natural world has always fascinated me. I don’t know why\, other than that I come from the New Forest\, a place of ancient woodlands\, heath\, and open pasture close to the sea\, in the south of England. I became a professional biologist\, a career that took me up and down the UK\, from Oxfordshire to Aberdeenshire. And then\, when the children left home\, my husband and I did likewise. We landed jobs at Cornell University\, giving us the opportunity to explore the magnificent Finger Lakes. \nOn Sunday 22nd March 2020\, I wrote a short essay about our small and unremarkable backyard. I didn’t realize it at the time\, but I had started a new chapter in my life. The weekly essays about my backyard over the following pandemic year evolved into a book\, Nature on the Doorstep (Cornell University Press\, 2023). I kept on writing\, and Near the Forest\, By the Lake\, my second book of essays about the local natural world\, was published\, also by Cornell University Press\, in 2025. More information is available at https://angelaedouglas.com\n\n\nRegister HERE
URL:https://brooksidemuseum.org/event/near-the-forest-by-the-lake-with-angela-e-douglas/
LOCATION:Brookside Museum\, 21 Fariground Ave.\, Ballston Spa\, NY\, 12020\, United States
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SUMMARY:Experts Next Door: Iroquoia: Haudenosaunee Life and Culture\, 1630-1783 With Kelly Hopkins
DESCRIPTION:Kelly Hopkins is an Assistant Professor of early American history at the University of Houston. Her book\, Iroquoia: Haudenosaunee Life and Culture\, 1630-1783 (Ithaca: Cornell University Press\, 2025)\, highlights the innovative strategies of Haudenosaunee men and women to retain their culture\, sovereignty\, and control of their homelands through more than seven generations of unprecedented social and environmental change that followed European contact and the settler invasion. \nRegister HERE
URL:https://brooksidemuseum.org/event/experts-next-door-iroquoia-haudenosaunee-life-and-culture-1630-1783-with-kelly-hopkins/
LOCATION:Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260412T180000
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SUMMARY:Random Acts of Poetry: Readings by Jay Rogoff\, Hajar Hussaini and Barbara Ungar
DESCRIPTION:  \n\nJoin the Ballston Spa Committee on the Arts and SCHC at Brookside Museum for the Random Acts of Poetry Performance Reading. \nJay Rogoff has published seven books of poetry\, most recently Loving in Truth: New and Selected Poems\, from LSU Press. His essay collection\, Becoming Poetry: Poets and Their Methods\, also from LSU\, won the Lewis P. Simpson Award for outstanding literary criticism. His work has appeared in many journals\, including AGNI\, The Georgia Review\, The Kenyon Review\, The New Republic\, Salmagundi\, and The Southern Review. As Saratoga Springs Poet Laureate for 2026 and 2027\, he has organized area readings and workshops for the Laureate Poetry Series and the Poet Laureate Project. \nHajar Hussaini is a poet and translator. She is the author of Disbound: Poems (University of Iowa Press\, 2022). She has also translated Death and His Brother: A Novel by Khosraw Mani (Syracuse University Press\, 2027)\, which won a 2025 PEN/Heim Translation Fund Grant\, and Wounded Vita Nuda: Poems by Maral Taheri (Deep Vellum\, 2027)\, which won the 2025 Mo Habib Translation Prize. A graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop\, she teaches at Skidmore College and lives in Saratoga Springs\, NY. \nBarbara Ungar is the author of six books and three chapbooks\, most recently After Naming the Animals (The Word Works\, 2024). Honors include the Snyder Publication Prize\, Gival Poetry Prize\, and being named to Kirkus Reviews Best Indie Books of 2015 and 2019. She has published poems in Scientific American\, Rattle\, Salmagundi\, and many other journals. Her work has been translated into Spanish\, Italian\, Portuguese\, and Bulgarian. Professor emerita from the College of Saint Rose\, she lives in Saratoga Springs. \nRegister HERE
URL:https://brooksidemuseum.org/event/random-acts-of-poetry-readings-by-jay-rogoff-hajar-hussaini-and-barbara-ungar/
LOCATION:Brookside Museum\, 21 Fariground Ave.\, Ballston Spa\, NY\, 12020\, United States
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SUMMARY:Experts Next Door: Tree by Tree: Saving North America's Eastern Forests
DESCRIPTION:For decades\, the forests of Eastern North America have faced pathogen and insect pests that have functionally removed tree species from the landscape. This talk will discuss the ecological roles that trees play\, the biology of the threats faced\, and the approaches that may remediate the problems. \nScott Meiners is a Plant Ecologist with a primary research focus on plant community dynamics\, particularly in the areas of species invasions and succession. He is a Professor at Eastern Illinois University where he has taught for 25 years\, conducting research and training graduate and undergraduate researchers. At home\, Scott is a tree collector\, growing chestnuts\, paw paws and producing maple syrup. \nRegister HERE
URL:https://brooksidemuseum.org/event/experts-next-door-tree-by-tree-saving-north-americas-eastern-forests/
LOCATION:Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20260415T180000
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SUMMARY:A Thousand Thousand Slimy Things: A Natural History of the Sea from the Bottom Up
DESCRIPTION:From sea serpents to seaweed\, slimy things have long tended to lurk among the frontiers of natural knowledge\, reflecting not only the anxieties of each age but also\, in many cases\, new possibilities. At once generative and destructive\, mysterious and manifest\, and masculine but sometimes feminine\, slime flowed through oceanic understanding and welcomed new people to contribute to it\, thereby producing natural knowledge both literally and figuratively “from the bottom up.” Across an expanding Atlantic world Africans\, Native Americans\, women\, and even pirates described the ocean’s currents\, creatures\, and coastal environments\, adding their observations to the growing body of knowledge about the physical and biological makeup of the sea. Indeed\, as this presentation posits\, close focus on the sea’s slimy things and the curious people drawn them may even provide new ways of imagining the ocean’s present and future. \nChristopher L. Pastore is Associate Professor of History at the University at Albany\, State University of New York\, where he teaches courses in environmental history\, early America\, and the Atlantic world. He holds a Ph.D. in History and M.S. in teaching from the University of New Hampshire\, an M.F.A. in nonfiction creative writing from New School University\, and a B.A. in Biology from Bowdoin College. He is the author of Between Land and Sea: The Atlantic Coast and the Transformation of New England (Harvard University Press\, 2014) and is currently writing an environmental history of the Atlantic world from the ancient period through the nineteenth century. \nYour donations power everything we do. For this event\, there is a suggested donation of $5. \nRegister HERE
URL:https://brooksidemuseum.org/event/a-thousand-thousand-slimy-things-a-natural-history-of-the-sea-from-the-bottom-up/
LOCATION:Brookside Museum\, 21 Fariground Ave.\, Ballston Spa\, NY\, 12020\, United States
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SUMMARY:John Brown in New York\, with Author Nancy Weber
DESCRIPTION:Historian and author Sandra Weber presents a compelling talk about her newest book\, John Brown in New York: The Man\, His Family\, and the Adirondack Landscape. Weber offers a fresh and intimate look at the famed abolitionist\, focusing on the years of the Brown family’s connection with North Elba\, Essex County (1848–1863). The intertwining story of sublime Adirondack scenery\, farm life\, and racial justice explores John Brown not only as a national figure but as a husband\, father\, neighbor\, and man of moral fiber. Weber’s insightful narrative bridges the myth and the man\, revealing the tender and tragic heart of the Brown family story. \nSandra Weber has authored several books about the Adirondack region\, including Breaking Trail: Remarkable Women of the Adirondacks (co-author\, Peggy Lynn)\, Mount Marcy\, The Finest Square Mile\, and Adirondack Roots. Her articles have been published in Civil War Times\, NYS Conservationist\, Adirondack Life\, Adirondack Explorer\, Christian Science Monitor\, and Highlights for Children. In addition to her writings\, Weber is also well-known for her dramatic portrayals of Mary Brown in “Times of Trouble” and of Jeanne Robert Foster\, Kate Field\, and other women in “Remarkable Women of the Adirondacks.” Weber is a graduate of Clarkson University (Math/CS\, ’83) and Temple University (MBA\, ’90). She lives in a log cabin near Elizabethtown\, NY\, and is an Adirondack 46er.\n \nYour donations power everything we do. For this event\, the suggested donation is $10.  \n\nRegister HERE
URL:https://brooksidemuseum.org/event/john-brown-in-new-york-with-author-nancy-weber/
LOCATION:Brookside Museum\, 21 Fariground Ave.\, Ballston Spa\, NY\, 12020\, United States
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SUMMARY:Experts Next Door: I Ride to Win: Isaac Murphy and Civil War America
DESCRIPTION:Isaac Murphy won three Kentucky Derbys and every other major American stakes race of the nineteenth century. He was among the jockeys inducted into the National Museum of Racing’s Hall of Fame in its inaugural class. He was also born enslaved in 1861\, the son of a Civil War widow\, and he lived through the violent conflicts of Reconstruction to become the first true superstar Black athlete in the United States. This talk examines Murphy’s life and career and the light it sheds on his sport and the history of his country. \nKatherine Mooney is James P. Jones Professor of U.S. History at Florida State University and the author of Isaac Murphy: The Rise and Fall of a Black Jockey \n \nYour donations power everything we do at Saratoga County History Center\, and allow us to offer programming like Experts Next Door.  \nRegister HERE
URL:https://brooksidemuseum.org/event/experts-next-door-i-ride-to-win-isaac-murphy-and-civil-war-america/
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