Feb
19
2025
Events
Our World: Short Stories About the Natural World
Wednesday, Feb 19, 2025 @ 2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
The Sandcastle, Kiawah Island SC
Every Wednesday in February — 5, 12, 19, 26, 2025
This special series offers in-depth, group discussion and analysis of the themes and style of short stories by well-known authors: Alice Walker, Virginia Woolf, Ellen Meloy, John Muir, Rachel Carson, Lewis Thomas, Jack London, and Sarah Orne Jewett.
Participants will have ample time to offer comments and ask questions. Copies of reading material will be provided free before each class meeting.
What insights about the natural world do some of the greatest nature writers of all time offer us? How do they imagine the relationship between people, the landscape, and other living things? How do they speak to each other?
Participants will think about these texts in relation to their own experience and the ways we all choose to live in the world, both collectively and as individuals.
Paula Feldman, a Kiawah resident, is the C. Wallace Martin Chair in English Emerita at the University of South Carolina where she taught literature and writing and was an associate faculty member in the School of the Earth, Ocean and Environment. She is the author or editor of twelve books about literary topics and has written for SC Wildlife Magazine about our local bottlenose dolphins and piping plovers. She volunteers for the Kiawah Island Shorebird Steward program and for Bluebird Patrol and currently serves on the boards of the Lowcountry Land Trust and SC Audubon.
Fee is $40 for four sessions. All proceeds will be donated to a local environmental non-profit organization. Limited to 20 participants.
Location
The Sandcastle