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<span class="x_ContentPasted0" style="font-family:"Playfair Display"">Highfield Hall & Gardens is pleased to announce a presentation with David Gessner. David, a New York Times bestselling author will be at Highfield Hall & Gardens! David Gessner will read
from his latest book: <strong><i><span class="x_ContentPasted0">A Traveler’s Guide to the End of the World, Tales of Fire, Wind and Water. </span></i></strong></span></p>
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<span class="x_ContentPasted0" style="font-family: "Playfair Display"; background: white; color: rgb(15, 17, 17);">In <span class="x_a-text-italic"><i class="x_ContentPasted0">A Traveler's Guide to the End of the World</i></span>, David Gessner takes readers
on an eye-opening tour of climate hotspots from the Gulf of Mexico to the burning American West to New York City to the fragile Outer Banks, where homes are being swallowed by the seas. He does so with his usual sense of humor, compassion, and a willingness
to talk to anyone, providing an informative and sobering yet convivial guide for the age of fire, heat, wind, and water.<br class="x_ContentPasted0">
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<span class="x_ContentPasted0" style="font-family: "Playfair Display"; background: white; color: rgb(15, 17, 17);">Gessner approaches scientists and thinkers with a father’s question: What will the world be like in 2064, when his daughter Hadley is his age
now? What is the future of weather? The future of heat, storms, and fire?</span><span style="font-family:"Playfair Display"">
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<span class="x_ContentPasted0" style="font-family:"Playfair Display"">Gessner was born in Boston and attended Harvard College where he worked at the Harvard Crimson drawing political cartoons. Gessner is the author of thirteen books of nonfiction, including,
most recently <strong><i><span class="x_ContentPasted0">A Traveler's Guide to the End of the World</span></i></strong>,
<em><b><span class="x_ContentPasted0">All The Wild That</span></b></em><strong><span class="x_ContentPasted0"> Remains: Edward Abbey, Wallace Stegner and the American West</span></strong>, as well as the
<em><b><span class="x_ContentPasted0">Ultimate Glory:</span></b></em><strong><span class="x_ContentPasted0">Frisbee, Obsession, and My Wild Youth,
</span></strong>a New York Times bestseller. The Tarball Chronicles won the 2012 Reed Award for Best Book on the Southern Environment and the Association for Study of Literature and the Environment’s award for best book of creative writing in 2011 and 2012. </span></p>
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<span class="x_ContentPasted0" style="font-family:"Playfair Display"">He is the author of eleven books that blend a love of nature, humor, memoir, and environmentalism, including
<strong><i><span class="x_ContentPasted0">Leave It As It Is: A Journey Through Theodore Roosevelt’s American Wilderness</span></i></strong> and the New York Times-bestselling <strong><i><span class="x_ContentPasted0">All the Wild That Remains: Edward Abbey,
Wallace Stegner and the American West</span></i></strong>. His prizes include a Pushcart Prize, the John Burroughs Award for Best Nature Essay, the Association for Study of Literature and the Environment’s award for best book of creative writing, and the Reed
Award for Best Book on the Southern Environment. In 2017 he appeared on the National Geographic Explorer show "The Call of the Wild." </span></p>
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<span class="x_ContentPasted0" style="font-family:"Playfair Display"">Wine and Cheese will be served for an evening of convivial talk chat and literary exploration. Eight Cousins will offer the books for purchase.
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<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><b><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Playfair Display"; color: rgb(20, 92, 50);">Cedith Copenhaver<span style=""></span></span></b></p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><span style="font-size: 10pt; font-family: "Playfair Display"; color: rgb(20, 92, 50);">Highfield Hall & Gardens</span></p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><i><span style="font-family: "Playfair Display"; color: rgb(0, 108, 91);">New Spring Exhibit Open, May 2 – June 11</span></i></p>
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<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><i><span style="font-family: "Playfair Display"; color: rgb(0, 108, 91);">End to End: Cape and Island Artists and the Land</span></i></p>
<p class="x_MsoNormal" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;"><i><span style="font-family: "Playfair Display"; color: rgb(0, 108, 91);">Through August 12</span></i></p>
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