Talk back (in person) to the Adirondack News bureau!

I’m going to be giving a couple of talks over the next couple of weeks, one in Keene Valley tomorrow evening and the other in Blue Mountain Lake on August 2nd.

Both events are open to the public and there will be plenty of time for conversation, comments, and wrestling with ideas.  Details below.

The Gulf Oil Spill:  Brian Mann of NCPR will speak from the perspective of his reporting assignment there.  July 21st. 7 PM. Keene Valley Library.

And the talk at the Adirondack Museum will be on August 2nd. Here’s the Museum’s announcement:

Blue Mountain Lake, N.Y. The past decade has been one of rapid transformation in the Adirondack Park.  Join North Country Public Radio’s Brian Mann for a discussion of this phenomenon and its implications for the future.

Mann will offer a program entitled “Adirondack Park 3.0” on Monday, August 2, 2010 at the Adirondack Museum, Blue Mountain Lake, New York.

Part of the museum’s Monday Evening Lecture series, the presentation will be held in the Auditorium at 7:30 p.m.  There is no charge for museum members.

Admission is $5.00 for non-members.

NCPR’s Adirondack Bureau Chief, Mann has been on the front lines during ten years of change in the Park.  He will lead a discussion of how environmental stewardship and community sustainability are being changed by new technology, new ecological threats, and a new political landscape.

Brian Mann has covered rural America for twenty years, working for public radio stations and networks from Alaska to New York.  His award winning stories appear regularly on National Public Radio’s Morning Edition and All Things Considered. In 2005 and 2006, Mann won four separate Edward R. Murrow Awards.

In addition to his work for NCPR, Mann is a commentator for Mountain Lake Public Television.  He is the author of Welcome to the Homeland: A Journey to the Rural Heart of America’s Conservative Revolution.  He lives in Saranac Lake, N.Y. with his wife and son.

The Adirondack Museum tells stories of the people – past and present — who have lived, worked, and played in the unique place that is the Adirondack Park. History is in our nature. The museum is supported in part by public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a State Agency. For information about all that the museum has to offer, please call (518) 352-7311, or visit www.adirondackmuseum.org.