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SUMMARY:Naturalist Notebook
DESCRIPTION:Naturalist Notebook: Trace: Memory\, History\, Race\, and the American Landscape \nFebruary 15\, 2026 | 1-3pm | Loganberry Books \nJoin the Nature Center and Loganberry Books as we discuss Lauret Savoy’s award-winning memoir\, Trace: Memory\, History\, Race\, and the American Landscape. Lauret Savoy is a professor of Environmental Studies and Geology at Mount Holyoke and\, through the lens of her own multiracial heritage\, she brings together the layers of place and history that impact us all in as many ways as the rocks hidden beneath our feet. \nREGISTER: https://givebutter.com/naturalist-notebook-2-15-26
URL:https://shakerlakes.org/event/naturalist-notebook-2/
LOCATION:Loganberry Books\, 13015 Larchmere Blvd\, Cleveland\, OH\, 44120
CATEGORIES:Literature
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SUMMARY:Naturalist Notebook
DESCRIPTION:Naturalist Notebook\nNovember 16 | 1-3pm | Loganberry Books \nJoin Loganberry Books and the Nature Center at Shaker Lakes for our quarterly book discussion! \nA 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 Wisconsin farm\, writing about the cyclical nature of seasons month by month\, followed by observations from traveling in other parts of the country\, and ending with the confirmation that everything in nature is connected. In his final essays\, Leopold asks us all to create what he calls a personal “land ethic”\, which asks individuals to create a responsible relationship with the land we inhabit and for which he is best known. 228 pages. Books available for purchase. \nREGISTER: https://givebutter.com/naturalist-notebook-11-16-25
URL:https://shakerlakes.org/event/naturalist-notebook/
LOCATION:Nature Center at Shaker Lakes\, 2600 South Park Blvd.\, Cleveland\, Ohio\, 44120
CATEGORIES:Literature
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250904T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20250904T210000
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SUMMARY:CLE Gals Book Club
DESCRIPTION:CLE Gals Book Club x Nature Center at Shaker Lakes\nThursday\, September 4 | 7-9PM \nJoin 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. \nSign-ups start Sunday\, August 31 at the link in bio: https://www.instagram.com/clegalsbookclub/
URL:https://shakerlakes.org/event/cle-gals-book-club/
LOCATION:Nature Center at Shaker Lakes\, 2600 South Park Blvd.\, Cleveland\, Ohio\, 44120
CATEGORIES:Literature
ORGANIZER;CN="Nature Center at Shaker Lakes":MAILTO:naturecenter@shakerlakes.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250817T130000
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SUMMARY:Naturalist Notebook: In The Light Eaters
DESCRIPTION:Naturalist Notebook\nAugust 17 | 1-3pm | Nature Center at Shaker Lakes \nJoin Loganberry Books and the Nature Center at Shaker Lakes for our quarterly book discussion! \nFor 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 Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth Zoë Schlanger brings together the botanists\, their scientific ideas\, and her own explorations to bring us yet a new way for us to understand plant intelligence and our own world. \nFree. Buy your copy from Loganberry Books for 10% off and join the conversation in person at the Nature Center from 1-3pm to discuss the book \nREGISTER: https://givebutter.com/naturalist-notebook-8-17-25
URL:https://shakerlakes.org/event/naturalist-notebook-in-the-light-eaters/
LOCATION:Nature Center at Shaker Lakes\, 2600 South Park Blvd.\, Cleveland\, Ohio\, 44120
CATEGORIES:Literature
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250518T130000
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SUMMARY:Naturalist Notebook: Crickets and Katydids
DESCRIPTION:Naturalist Notebook: Crickets and Katydids\nSunday\, May 18 | 1pm-3pm | NCSL \nLisa 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 amphibians of NE Ohio. \nThe book\, Crickets and Katydids: Concerts and Solos by Vincent G. Dethier is out of print but good used copies will be available at Loganberry Books. Join us at the Nature Center to talk about these annual arrivals to our Ohio landscapes\, and learn about the sounds of summer and fall that lull us to sleep. \nRegistration Link: https://shakerlakes.doubleknot.com/event/naturalist-notebook-crickets-and-katydids/3096369
URL:https://shakerlakes.org/event/naturalist-notebook-crickets-and-katydids/
LOCATION:Nature Center at Shaker Lakes\, 2600 South Park Blvd.\, Cleveland\, Ohio\, 44120
CATEGORIES:Literature
ORGANIZER;CN="Nature Center at Shaker Lakes":MAILTO:naturecenter@shakerlakes.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20250416T190000
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SUMMARY:The Story of The Land: How Literature Confronts the Climate Crisis
DESCRIPTION:The Story of The Land: How Literature Confronts the Climate Crisis\nin partnership with Orion Magazine\, Literary Cleveland\, and Mac’s Backs \n\nHow does language shape our relationship with the land? What is literature’s role in the future of our planet?\n\n\nJoin Literary Cleveland and Orion Magazine for a discussion with local writers about how fiction\, nonfiction\, and poetry can shift cultural perception about the environment\, reconsider our relationship to nature\, and galvanize us to address the climate crisis. Presented as part of Climate and Health Month in Cuyahoga County. \nBooks will be available for purchase from Mac’s Backs. While supplies last. Free. Registration required.https://givebutter.com/IPMJbW\n \n\n\nDeborah Fleming is a novelist\, poet\, scholar\, and essayist. Her latest collection of essays Ghosts of an Old Forest: Essays on Midwestern Rural Heritage is scheduled to be released later in April. The essays reflection on Ohio’s natural and cultural history as inspired by her farm. She also received acclaim for Resurrection of the Wild: Meditations on Ohio’s Natural Landscape (2019) which won the PEN-America Diamonstein/Spielvogel Art of the Essay Award in 2020. \nAlison Stine is a novelist and journalist. Her first novel Road Out of Winter won the Philip K. Dick Award. Her second novel Trashlands was long-listed for the Mark Twain American Voice in Literature Award\, and her third novel Dust was published by St. Martin’s Press in December 2024. Recipient of an NEA Fellowship\, she works as the Climate Justice Senior Editor at NPQ. \nJon Wlasiuk is a professor\, writer\, and native of Ohio. His book An Alternative History of Cleveland was released in October 2024. In it\, he explores how nature and culture are intertwined throughout the city and region.
URL:https://shakerlakes.org/event/the-story-of-the-land-how-literature-confronts-the-climate-crisis/
LOCATION:Nature Center at Shaker Lakes\, 2600 South Park Blvd.\, Cleveland\, Ohio\, 44120
CATEGORIES:Literature
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SUMMARY:Naturalist Notebook: The Age of Deer by Erika Howsare
DESCRIPTION:Naturalist Notebook: The Age of Deer by Erika Howsare \nSunday\, February 16 | 1pm-3pm | Loganberry Books/Virtual \nEscape the chilly weather and join Loganberry Books and The Nature Center at Shaker Lakes for our quarterly\, cozy book discussion! \nThe Age of Deer: Trouble and Kinship with Our Wild Neighbors by Erika Howsare is a book that touches all of us here in NE Ohio\, the tale of our complicated relationship with a wild animal that now lives among us. Part mythology\, part natural history\, the book asks us to consider these paradoxes and how we have come to find ourselves in this situation. \nFree. Buy your copy from Loganberry Books for 10% off and join the conversation on November 17\, from 1-3pm at Loganberry Books (located at 13015 Larchmere Blvd) to discuss the book. \nThis is a hybrid book discussion; join us in person at Loganberry Books or online! Zoom link will be sent in an email prior to the meeting. \nRegistration Link: https://givebutter.com/k87ubW
URL:https://shakerlakes.org/event/naturalist-notebook-the-age-of-deer-by-erika-howsare/
LOCATION:Loganberry Books\, 13015 Larchmere Blvd\, Cleveland\, OH\, 44120
CATEGORIES:Literature
ORGANIZER;CN="Nature Center at Shaker Lakes":MAILTO:naturecenter@shakerlakes.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241117T130000
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SUMMARY:Naturalist Notebook: The Living Mountain & You Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World
DESCRIPTION:Naturalist Notebook: The Living Mountain & You Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World \nSunday\, November 17 | 1:00PM-3:00PM | Nature Center \nWe 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\, Nan Shepherd\, takes readers on a long walk in the eastern highlands\, and is considered a “forgotten masterpiece of our relationship with nature”. We’ll also read the new anthology\, You Are Here: Poetry in the Natural World\, edited by US Poet Laureate\, Ada Limon\, which complements Shepherd’s reflections with those of 50 contemporary poets and their relationship with nature in their local landscapes to include Jericho Brown\, Joy Harjo and more. It’s a delightful pairing! \nFree. Buy your copy from Loganberry Books for 10% off and join the conversation on November 17\, from 1-3pm at Loganberry Books to discuss the book. \nRegistration Link: https://givebutter.com/ZXyBmb
URL:https://shakerlakes.org/event/naturalist-notebook-the-living-mountain-you-are-here-poetry-in-the-natural-world/
LOCATION:Nature Center at Shaker Lakes\, 2600 South Park Blvd.\, Cleveland\, Ohio\, 44120
CATEGORIES:Literature
ORGANIZER;CN="Nature Center at Shaker Lakes":MAILTO:naturecenter@shakerlakes.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20241010T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20241010T193000
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SUMMARY:History of the Van Swerigen Brothers: An Author Talk with Lauren Pacini 
DESCRIPTION:History of the Van Swerigen Brothers: An Author Talk with Lauren Pacini  \nThursday\, October 10 | 6:00PM-7:30PM | Nature Center  \nJoin 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 Swerigen Brothers.  \nEmpire Builders tells the story of Cleveland’s Oris P. and Mantis J. Van Sweringen\, two brothers born near Wooster\, Ohio\, in the late nineteenth century. Although they were born into abject poverty\, O. P. was an extraordinary visionary who\, with the help of M. J.\, his devoted younger brother\, amassed a vast fortune in real estate and railroad developments. Free. Registration required.  \n  \nRegistration Link: https://givebutter.com/lee75t 
URL:https://shakerlakes.org/event/history-of-the-van-swerigen-brothers-an-author-talk-with-lauren-pacini/
LOCATION:Nature Center at Shaker Lakes\, 2600 South Park Blvd.\, Cleveland\, Ohio\, 44120
CATEGORIES:Literature
ORGANIZER;CN="Nature Center at Shaker Lakes":MAILTO:naturecenter@shakerlakes.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240815T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240815T190000
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SUMMARY:Is Nature More Cooperative Than We Think? A Talk with Kristin Ohlson
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, August 15 | 6:00PM-7:00PM | Nature Center \nJoin us for a very special author talk from writer Kristin Ohlson! Books available for purchase from Mac’s Backs-Books on Coventry.\nMost 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 relationships among living things have both shaped the world around us and continue to knit ecosystems together. How can we both uphold these cooperative relationships and become a cooperative partner with the rest of life? \nRegistration Link: https://givebutter.com/87QPaA
URL:https://shakerlakes.org/event/is-nature-more-cooperative-than-we-think-a-talk-with-kristin-ohlson/
LOCATION:Nature Center at Shaker Lakes\, 2600 South Park Blvd.\, Cleveland\, Ohio\, 44120
CATEGORIES:Literature
ORGANIZER;CN="Nature Center at Shaker Lakes":MAILTO:naturecenter@shakerlakes.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240522T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240522T193000
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SUMMARY:The Free People's Village: Sustainability Book Discussion
DESCRIPTION: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. \nFree. Registration required. \nCopies of the book are available at the Shaker Heights Main Library one month before the discussion and via ebook on Libby and Hoopla. \nFind the book at your local Clevnet library here: https://search.clevnet.org/client/en_US/clevnet/search/results?qu=the+free+people%27s+village&te= \nRegistration Link: https://events.shakerlibrary.org/event/11978842
URL:https://shakerlakes.org/event/the-free-peoples-village-sustainability-book-discussion/
LOCATION:Nature Center at Shaker Lakes\, 2600 South Park Blvd.\, Cleveland\, Ohio\, 44120
CATEGORIES:Literature
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240519T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240519T150000
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SUMMARY:Naturalist Notebook: Season on the Wind
DESCRIPTION:SEASON ON THE WIND BY KENN KAUFMAN \nIt’s migration season! Kenn Kaufman is well known for his guide books (particularly\, his bird guides) but he has also written many books. Season On The Wind: Inside the World of Spring Migration could not be more perfectly suited to read both because it deals with spring migration and focuses on our part of the country Northern Ohio\, the Great Lakes and Magee Marsh — Warbler country. For “birders” and just bird lovers\, Season on the Wind is a great read about our geographic corner of the world and a great pastime. \nRegistration required. Free. Donations welcome.\nPurchase your book at Loganberry Books for a 10% discount. \nRegistration: https://givebutter.com/maynatnotebook
URL:https://shakerlakes.org/event/naturalist-notebook-season-on-the-wind/
LOCATION:Nature Center at Shaker Lakes\, 2600 South Park Blvd.\, Cleveland\, Ohio\, 44120
CATEGORIES:Literature
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20240417T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20240417T203000
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SUMMARY:Nature is a Language
DESCRIPTION:A READING WITH JILL BIALOSKY AND LINDSAY TURNER \nHow does language shape our relationship with nature and with each other? What is poetry’s role in the future of our planet? \nJoin Literary Cleveland and Orion Magazine at the Nature Center at Shaker Lakes for a literary reading and conversation between Jill Bialosky\, editor at Norton and author of Asylum and The Deceptions\, and Lindsay Turner\, CWRU professor and author of the poetry collection The Upstate. Together\, they will explore how poetry engages the natural world\, reveals our interconnectedness as human animals\, and challenges us to address ecological crises. \nBooks will be available at the event courtesy of Mac’s Backs-Books on Coventry. This event is sponsored by Orion Magazine in partnership with the Nature Center. \nRegister https://givebutter.com/natureisalanguage
URL:https://shakerlakes.org/event/nature-is-a-language/
LOCATION:Ohio
CATEGORIES:Literature
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