Ten Thousand Central Parks
Thursday, January 29th
6-7 pm ET
Join the author of the recently published:
Ten Thousand Central Parks (and multiple other books!)
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Ten Thousand Central Parks challenges the despair that many feel over the current climate dilemma. Central Park—created during the Civil War—offers a surprising parable of radical hope. Join writer, scholar, and retired professor David Brown Morris as he discusses his timely narrative-nonfiction account. Central Park, he argues, is more than a recreational space. It offers a model for the future. Almost 70% of the world population will soon live in urban areas. The 18,000 trees in Central Park, sequestering a million pounds of carbon dioxide annually, suggest how large-scale, nature-based solutions can measurably improve our quality of life while addressing urgent global challenges.
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David Brown Morris is a writer-scholar with an unusual background. He wrote two prize-winning books in eighteenth-century literature before resigning a tenured full professorship. Subsequently, The Culture of Pain (1991) won a PEN prize and initiated a trilogy culminating, after a decade spent as caregiver for his late wife, in Eros and Illness (2017). He has written and lectured on pain for medical audiences worldwide, while publishing three books of narrative-nonfiction: Earth Warrior (1995), Civil War Duet (2019), and Wanderers (2022). He has held three distinguished visiting professorships as well as fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Humanities. Returning to academe full-time after twenty years, he retired from the University of Virginia in a position split between English and the School of Medicine
