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  • The Free People’s Village: Sustainability Book Discussion

    Nature Center at Shaker Lakes 2600 South Park Blvd., Cleveland, Ohio

    Join Shaker Heights Public Library at the Nature Center for a captivating sustainability-minded book discussion. We'll delve into "The Free People's Village" by Sim Kern, exploring an alternate 2020 where environmental policies shape a transformed America. Free. Registration required. Copies of the book are available at the Shaker Heights Main Library one month before the […]

  • Is Nature More Cooperative Than We Think? A Talk with Kristin Ohlson

    Nature Center at Shaker Lakes 2600 South Park Blvd., Cleveland, Ohio

    Thursday, August 15 | 6:00PM-7:00PM | Nature Center Join us for a very special author talk from writer Kristin Ohlson! Books available for purchase from Mac's Backs-Books on Coventry. Most people believe that nature is characterized by competition and conflict—red in tooth and  claw, as the poet Tennyson said. But recent science suggests that cooperative […]

  • History of the Van Swerigen Brothers: An Author Talk with Lauren Pacini 

    Nature Center at Shaker Lakes 2600 South Park Blvd., Cleveland, Ohio

    History of the Van Swerigen Brothers: An Author Talk with Lauren Pacini  Thursday, October 10 | 6:00PM-7:30PM | Nature Center  Join local history author and architectural photographer Lauren Pacini at the Nature Center at Shaker Lakes as he discusses his new book, Empire Builders: An Illustrated History of the Rise and Fall of Cleveland's Van […]

  • Naturalist Notebook: The Living Mountain & You Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World

    Nature Center at Shaker Lakes 2600 South Park Blvd., Cleveland, Ohio

    Naturalist Notebook: The Living Mountain & You Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World Sunday, November 17 | 1:00PM-3:00PM | Nature Center We close out our year by reading memoirs and poetry. The Living Mountain is a memoir that is more a prose poem to nature. This amazing piece of nature writing by Scottish author, […]

  • Naturalist Notebook: The Age of Deer by Erika Howsare

    Loganberry Books 13015 Larchmere Blvd, Cleveland, OH

    Naturalist Notebook: The Age of Deer by Erika Howsare Sunday, February 16 | 1pm-3pm | Loganberry Books/Virtual Escape the chilly weather and join Loganberry Books and The Nature Center at Shaker Lakes for our quarterly, cozy book discussion! The Age of Deer: Trouble and Kinship with Our Wild Neighbors by Erika Howsare is a book […]

  • The Story of The Land: How Literature Confronts the Climate Crisis

    Nature Center at Shaker Lakes 2600 South Park Blvd., Cleveland, Ohio

    The Story of The Land: How Literature Confronts the Climate Crisis in partnership with Orion Magazine, Literary Cleveland, and Mac's Backs How does language shape our relationship with the land? What is literature's role in the future of our planet? Join Literary Cleveland and Orion Magazine for a discussion with local writers about how fiction, nonfiction, and poetry can […]

  • Naturalist Notebook: Crickets and Katydids

    Nature Center at Shaker Lakes 2600 South Park Blvd., Cleveland, Ohio

    Naturalist Notebook: Crickets and Katydids Sunday, May 18 | 1pm-3pm | NCSL Lisa Rainsong, Ph.D. will join us for the May Naturalist's Notebook talking and making music about one of her favorite subjects, insects, specifically crickets and katydids. Lisa is a professional musician and educator with a passion for the study of birds, insects and […]

  • Naturalist Notebook: In The Light Eaters

    Nature Center at Shaker Lakes 2600 South Park Blvd., Cleveland, Ohio

    Naturalist Notebook August 17 | 1-3pm | Nature Center at Shaker Lakes Join Loganberry Books and the Nature Center at Shaker Lakes for our quarterly book discussion! For many years we have been reading about the way trees and plants communicate and support each other. In The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant […]

  • CLE Gals Book Club

    Nature Center at Shaker Lakes 2600 South Park Blvd., Cleveland, Ohio

    CLE Gals Book Club x Nature Center at Shaker Lakes Thursday, September 4 | 7-9PM Join the CLE Gals Book Club for their next meeting at the Nature Center to discuss the September pick: Pride & Prejudice. We look forward to welcoming this book club to our trails for a tea party and discussion. Sign-ups […]

  • Naturalist Notebook

    Nature Center at Shaker Lakes 2600 South Park Blvd., Cleveland, Ohio

    Naturalist Notebook November 16 | 1-3pm | Loganberry Books Join Loganberry Books and the Nature Center at Shaker Lakes for our quarterly book discussion! A Sand County Almanac is an ecology and conservation classic published in 1949 that continues to speak to the world we are living in today. Aldo Leopold's essays begin on his […]