Mark January 26th On Your Calendar

There was a nice write-up in The Moultrie Observer today about Janisse Ray. It was on the front page, "Nature friend, author plans Moultrie lecture." And the Albany Herald contacted our webmaster for more information about the event.
So, we're getting excited about Ms. Ray being in Moultrie on Tuesday, January 26th.
The Georgia Center for the Book, with the support of the Georgia Humanities Council, the Moultrie-Colquitt County Library System, and the Moultrie Chapter of the Georgia Conservancy, is providing for Janisse Ray to present a free public lecture and book-signing on the 26th at 7 p.m. in the library auditorium. The address is 204 5th Street, S.E., in Moultrie. The phone number, in the event you need more information, is 229-985-6540.
If you've never read one of Ms. Ray's books, then you've missed a real treat about the State of Georgia. She's a woman who writes about family ties, mental illness, poverty, fundamentalist religion, and preserving the ecosystems of the Southeast.
Ms. Ray was born in Baxley, GA, and is an environmentalist activist, poet, memorist, and the award-winning author of Ecology of a Cracker Childhood. The memoir is about her life as she grew up in a junkyard, as well as the longleaf pine ecosystem, the Gopher Tortoise, and the streams and rivers near the Georgia
coastline.
She's also written Wildcard Quilt: Taking a Chance on Home and Pinhook: Finding a Wholeness in a Fragmented Land. She co-edited Between Two Rivers: Stories from the Red Hills to the
Gulf.
As an organizer and activist, she works to create sustainable communities, local food systems, a stable global climate, intact ecosystems,clean rivers, life-enhancing economies, and participatory democracy. She's definitely a leader in her chosen field of writing and the environment.
There are way too many awards to tell you about here and way too many places to list where she's taught as a writer. It's easier to tell you that Ms. Ray tries her best to live a simple, sustainable life on a family farm in southern Georgia with her husband, Raven Waters. She's an organic gardner, tender of farm animals, slow-food cook, and seed-saver. She's a lecturer on topics that appeal to everyone, but especially on saving our world.
Plan now to attend this enlightening lecture by one of Georgia's most popular authors, one whose name is on the list of 25 Georgia authors you should be reading.
Mark your calendar now for Tuesday, January 26th, at 7 p.m. at the Moultrie-Colquitt County Library auditorium.