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JANISSE RAY’S ECOLOGY OF A CRACKER CHILDHOOD (REMOTE)

Instructor(s)
Monica Miller, PhD
Carolyn Wynn Smalley Distinguished Chair of Georgia Studies, Middle Georgia State University
Location
Online
Date
Mondays, September 28 to October 19
Time
11 AM - 12:30 PM ET

We will read, learn about, and discuss this award-winning book from 1999. Though officially a memoir of Ray’s childhood in rural Georgia amongst junkyards and conservative, evangelical religion, it is also a clarion call of naturalist writing as well as a compelling story of childhood lived amid poverty, mental illness, and the threatened destruction of the local ecosystem of the longleaf pine. Class readings will be supple-mented by additional work by Ray, including her poetry and other nature writing.

Read: Ecology of A Cracker Childhood, Janisse Ray

Member of Lifelong Learning Cost
Members receive 15% discount
Nonmember Cost
$98