Saturday, March 7, 2020, 2pm.  At Clay Pit Ponds State Park Preserve Interpretive Center, 2351 Veterans Rd, Staten Island, NY 10309.  (Off Sharrott’s Road. Take Exit 3 off 440 South – Woodrow Road.)

For Women In History Month, we’ll host a reading featuring “Rural Hours”, a work by Susan Fenimore Cooper, written in 1850.  Cooper (1813-1894) was a pioneering writer whose work highlights environmental issues.
Her work has been forgotten by some, but her influence is significant. Charles Darwin admitted her work, and she influenced Thoreau as he wrote “Walden”.
She was the daughter of James Fenimore Cooper. Her writing is a meditation on New York ecology; her work is relevant to our own community.
“Rural Hours” is readily available on several online resources, including the nypl.org portal & the NYPL rare books collection.