This is a reminder that at 7:00 PM 0n Tuesday December 13, 2016, renowned naturalist Ted Levin from Thetford is to speak on "America's Snake/The Rise and Fall of the Timber Rattlesnake" in the Mayer Room of the Howe Library in Hanover, NH. This free program is open to the public and cosponsored by the Mascoma Chapter of New Hampshire Audubon and the Howe Library. 
 
Ted Levin has recently published a book (2016, University of Chicago Press) with the same title as his talk, and a book signing will follow his program. 
About his book, it has been written 
  "There’s no sound quite like it, or as viscerally terrifying: the ominous rattle of the timber rattlesnake. It’s a chilling shorthand for imminent danger, and a reminder of the countless ways that nature can suddenly snuff us out. 
            Yet most of us have never seen a timber rattler. Though they’re found in thirty-one states, including NH, and near many major cities, in contemporary America timber rattlesnakes are creatures mostly of imagination and innate fear. 
            Ted Levin aims to change that with America’s Snake, a portrait of the timber rattlesnake, its place in America’s pantheon of creatures and in our own frontier history—and of the heroic efforts to protect it against habitat loss, climate change, and the human tendency to kill what we fear."
 
His book, though centered on snakes, contains numerous references to birds in relation to the snakes. 
 
George Clark
Norwich, VT


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