{"id":2139,"date":"2025-10-03T23:13:32","date_gmt":"2025-10-04T03:13:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.actongardenclub.org\/?post_type=tribe_events&#038;p=2139"},"modified":"2025-10-03T23:14:43","modified_gmt":"2025-10-04T03:14:43","slug":"shirley-towle-lecture-the-trees-are-speaking","status":"publish","type":"tribe_events","link":"https:\/\/www.actongardenclub.org\/staging\/5475\/event\/shirley-towle-lecture-the-trees-are-speaking\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Talk: The Trees are Speaking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/forms\/d\/e\/1FAIpQLSe0SD-0w82VX1KSA7vYh9r_Cd9BRJVPwGf_tOAQTYzbIDPsYg\/viewform\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/docs.google.com\/forms\/d\/e\/1FAIpQLSe0SD-0w82VX1KSA7vYh9r_Cd9BRJVPwGf_tOAQTYzbIDPsYg\/viewform&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1757368091536000&amp;usg=AOvVaw0C2C7uISIw9m6YbmwW5Y9H\">Book Talk: The Trees are Speaking<\/a><\/p>\n<div>\n<h3 dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"font-family: HelveticaNeue;\">Acton Town Hall, Room 204<\/span><\/h3>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"font-family: HelveticaNeue;\">The Acton Garden Club is pleased to announce The Shirley Towle lecture will take place on\u00a0Thursday evening Sept 25th at Acton<a href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.actongardenclub.org\/staging\/5475\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/AGCbookSale.jpg\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-2055 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.actongardenclub.org\/staging\/5475\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/AGCbookSale.jpg?resize=299%2C387\" alt=\"\" width=\"299\" height=\"387\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.actongardenclub.org\/staging\/5475\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/AGCbookSale.jpg?w=1545&amp;ssl=1 1545w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.actongardenclub.org\/staging\/5475\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/AGCbookSale.jpg?resize=232%2C300&amp;ssl=1 232w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.actongardenclub.org\/staging\/5475\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/AGCbookSale.jpg?resize=791%2C1024&amp;ssl=1 791w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.actongardenclub.org\/staging\/5475\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/AGCbookSale.jpg?resize=768%2C994&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.actongardenclub.org\/staging\/5475\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/AGCbookSale.jpg?resize=1187%2C1536&amp;ssl=1 1187w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.actongardenclub.org\/staging\/5475\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/AGCbookSale.jpg?resize=155%2C200&amp;ssl=1 155w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.actongardenclub.org\/staging\/5475\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/AGCbookSale.jpg?w=1250 1250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 299px) 100vw, 299px\" \/><\/a> Town Hall, Room 204 from\u00a06:30pm-8:30pm<\/span><\/p>\n<div dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">Lynda Mapes,\u00a0<\/span>journalist, nature writer, and author based in Seattle,<span style=\"font-size: medium;\"> will discuss topics from her new book, &#8220;The Trees Are Speaking&#8221;.\u00a0<\/span>Lynda is the author of six books of natural and cultural history of the Pacific Northwest. She has been awarded the Washington State Book Award, the National Outdoor Book Award, and twice been honored with the international Kavli Gold Award for Science Writing by the American Association for the Advancement of Science, one of the world\u2019s most prestigious science writing awards. In 2025, Lynda was named a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize in local reporting with a team of journalists at the Seattle Times, where she has specialized in covering environmental news, nature and Native cultures and governments\u00a0for 27 years.<\/div>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"color: #212529; font-size: medium;\">Schedule:<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"color: #212529; font-size: medium;\">6:30pm Refreshments\/Book Signing<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"color: #212529; font-size: medium;\">7pm Presentation<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><span style=\"color: #212529; font-size: medium;\">There will be door prizes after the presentation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">This lecture is sponsored by the Acton Garden Club in its third year of collaboration with Acton Conservation Trust and Energize Acton. Silver Unicorn Bookstore in Acton is also a co-sponsor.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">if you would like to read the book prior to the event,\u00a0it is available at the \u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.silverunicornbooks.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.silverunicornbooks.com\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1757368091536000&amp;usg=AOvVaw0BA_xVS1X7Nz9nf0SIvMMa\">The Silver Unicorn Bookstore<\/a>\u00a0Lynda will be happy to sign books purchased in advance. Books will also be available for purchase at the event.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Please register if you plan to attend. A zoom link will be emailed to people who register and would like to attend virtually.\u00a0Register here:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/forms\/d\/e\/1FAIpQLSe0SD-0w82VX1KSA7vYh9r_Cd9BRJVPwGf_tOAQTYzbIDPsYg\/viewform\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/docs.google.com\/forms\/d\/e\/1FAIpQLSe0SD-0w82VX1KSA7vYh9r_Cd9BRJVPwGf_tOAQTYzbIDPsYg\/viewform&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1757368091536000&amp;usg=AOvVaw0C2C7uISIw9m6YbmwW5Y9H\">Book Talk: The Trees are Speaking<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Book Talk: The Trees are Speaking Acton Town Hall, Room 204 The Acton Garden Club is pleased to announce The Shirley Towle lecture will take place on\u00a0Thursday evening Sept 25th [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_tribe_events_status":"","_tribe_events_status_reason":"","footnotes":""},"tags":[],"tribe_events_cat":[],"class_list":["post-2139","tribe_events","type-tribe_events","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.actongardenclub.org\/staging\/5475\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/2139","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.actongardenclub.org\/staging\/5475\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.actongardenclub.org\/staging\/5475\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/tribe_events"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.actongardenclub.org\/staging\/5475\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.actongardenclub.org\/staging\/5475\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2139"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.actongardenclub.org\/staging\/5475\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/2139\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2142,"href":"https:\/\/www.actongardenclub.org\/staging\/5475\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events\/2139\/revisions\/2142"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.actongardenclub.org\/staging\/5475\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2139"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.actongardenclub.org\/staging\/5475\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2139"},{"taxonomy":"tribe_events_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.actongardenclub.org\/staging\/5475\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tribe_events_cat?post=2139"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}