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Open Midnight: Where Ancestors & Wilderness Meet
April 25, 2017, 7:00 PM
Free
Brooke Williams will read from his Open Midnight, which weaves two parallel stories about the great wilderness: that of the author’s year alone with his dog, ground truthing, backcountry maps of southern Utah and that of his great-great-great-grandfather, William Williams, who in 1863 made his way with a group of Mormons from England across the ocean and the American wild almost to Utah, dying a week short. The story follows two levels of history — personal, as represented by his forbear, and collective, as represented by Charles Darwin, who lived in Shrewsbury, England, at about the same time as William Williams. Brooke Williams has spent the last 30 years advocating for wilderness. He is the author of four books, including Halflives: Reconciling Work and Wildness and The Story of My Heart, by Richard Jeffries, as rediscovered by Brooke Williams and Terry Tempest Williams.
Sponsored by the Environmental Studies Program.