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Terry Tempest Williams Event to Benefit Whatcom Land Trust

Long-time favorite author Terry Tempest Williams will return to Bellingham on Monday, January 26, to talk about her latest book, Finding Beauty in a Broken World. Terry, who recently packed the main auditorium at Benaroya Hall in Seattle, will be at the First Congregational Church, 2401 Cornwall Avenue, at 7 pm that evening. Tickets for the event, proceeds from which will benefit Whatcom Land Trust, are available at Village Books and on-line for $12.50.

Terry (www.coyoteclan.com) is the author of fifteen books, perhaps the best-known of which are Refuge, Leap, and The Open Space of Democracy. Her latest work may well be her most original, provocative, and eloquently moving book since Refuge. In it, she gives us a luminous chronicle of finding beauty in a broken world. Always an impassioned and far-sighted advocate for a just relationship between the natural world and humankind, Terry has broadened her concerns over the past several years to include a reconfiguration of family and community in her search for a deeper understanding of what it means to be human in an era of physical and spiritual fragmentation. She begins in Ravenna, Italy, where jeweled ceilings became lavish tales through the art of mosaic. She discovers that mosaic is not just an art form but a form of integration, and when she returns to the American Southwest, her physical and spiritual home, and observes a clan of prairie dogs on the brink of extinction, she apprehends an ecological mosaic created by a remarkable species in the sagebrush steppes of the Colorado Plateau. And, finally, Terry travels to a small village in Rwanda, where, along with fellow artists, she joins survivors of the 1994 genocide and builds a memorial literally from the rubble of war, an act that becomes a spark for social change and healing.

Whatcom Land Trust (www.whatcomlandtrust.org) is celebrating its 25th anniversary in 2009. Its mission is to preserve and protect wildlife habitat, scenic, agricultural, and open space lands in Whatcom County for future generations by securing interests in land and promoting land stewardship. In its two and a half decades, Whatcom Land Trust has helped preserve more than 9000 acres of land, protected over 20 miles of riverfront and seven and a half miles of saltwater shoreline, and helped create fourteen public parks.

We hope youll join us as we welcome our friend, Terry Tempest Williams, back to Bellingham.

Monday, January 26th at 7pm

Village Books is proud to present Terry Tempest Williams at the First Congregational Church 2401 Cornwall Ave, Bellingham. Tickets are $12.50 and are available now at Village Books www.villagebooks.com) 's38; on-line at Brownpapertickets.com. Proceeds will benefit Whatcom Land Trust.

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