Daily Archives: March 8, 2012

Thursday, March 15, 6:00 pm reception, 7:00 pm lecture – FL Olmsted 1882 – 1890: Boston, Brookline and Beyond

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The Friends of Fairsted present F L Olmsted 1882 – 1890: Boston, Brookline & Beyond on Thursday, March 15 at Wheelock College, 43 Hawes Street in Brookline.  The evening will begin with a reception at 6, followed by a lecture given by Ethan Carr.  Ethan Carr, Associate Professor of Landscape Architecture at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and editor of Volume 8 of the Papers of Frederick Law Olmsted: The Early Boston Years 1882-1890, provides an insider’s look at the process of preparing the volume including new and revealing details of his work on the Boston Park System. The volume will be published by Johns Hopkins University Press in 2013.  For further information e-mail friendsoffairsted@gmail.com or call 617-566-1689 x265.

Thursday, March 15, 7:00 pm – The Mindful Carnivore: A Vegetarian’s Hunt for Sustenance

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Porter Square Books, 25 White Street, Cambridge, hosts author Tovar Cerulli on Thursday, March 15, beginning at 7 pm. Drawing on personal experience, philosophy, history, and religion, Cerulli shows how America’s overly sanitized habits of consumption have disconnected us from our food, resulting in many of the spiritual and environmental crises we now face. In this time of intensifying concern over ecological degradation and animal welfare, how do we make peace with the fact that, even by growing organic vegetables, life is sustained by death? As a boy, Tovar Cerulli spent his summers fishing for trout and hunting bullfrogs. While still in high school, he began to experiment with vegetarianism. By the age of twenty he was a vegan. A decade later, in the face of declining health, he returned to omnivory and within a few years found himself heading into the woods, rifle in hand. Tovar split his undergraduate years between Dartmouth College and the New School for Social Research in Manhattan, and has worked as a carpenter and freelance writer. An environmentalist, Tovar has also worked as a logger. He is currently enrolled as a Ph.D. student at UMass Amherst. His research is focused on food, hunting, and human relationships with nature. For more information, visit www.portersquarebooks.com, or call 617-491-2220.