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Sy Montgomery
10-22-2023
Bull Run Speaker Series presents: Sy Montgomery
Researching articles, films, and her 31 books for adults and children, nationally bestselling author Sy Montgomery has been chased by an angry silverback gorilla in Rwanda, hunted by a tiger in India, and has swum with piranhas, electric eels and pink dolphins in the Amazon. Her work has taken her from the cloud forest of Papua New Guinea (for a book on tree kangaroos) to the Altai Mountains of the Gobi (for another on snow leopards.) For "The Soul of an Octopus" (a National Book Award finalist) she befriended octopuses at the New England Aquarium and scuba dived and snorkeled with wild octopuses in Mexico and French Polynesia; next she drew on her scuba skills to cage dive with great white sharks. She lives in New Hampshire with her husband, the writer Howard Mansfield, and their border collie Thurber.
Sy writes for adults and children, for print and broadcast, in America and overseas in an effort to reach as wide an audience as possible at what she considers a critical turning point in human history. “We are on the cusp of either destroying this sweet, green Earth—or revolutionizing the way we understand the rest of animate creation,” she says. “It’s an important time to be writing about the connections we share with our fellow creatures. It’s a great time to be alive.”
• Doors open & Brunch is available from 10AM.
• There will be no Brunch Service once the program begins @ 12noon.
• Ticket price does not include Brunch.
Proceeds from this event directly benefit the Ayer Library and the Hazen Memorial Library in Shirley.
BUY TICKETSBull Run Speaker Series presents: Sy Montgomery
Researching articles, films, and her 31 books for adults and children, nationally bestselling author Sy Montgomery has been chased by an angry silverback gorilla in Rwanda, hunted by a tiger in India, and has swum with piranhas, electric eels and pink dolphins in the Amazon. Her work has taken her from the cloud forest of Papua New Guinea (for a book on tree kangaroos) to the Altai Mountains of the Gobi (for another on snow leopards.) For "The Soul of an Octopus" (a National Book Award finalist) she befriended octopuses at the New England Aquarium and scuba dived and snorkeled with wild octopuses in Mexico and French Polynesia; next she drew on her scuba skills to cage dive with great white sharks. She lives in New Hampshire with her husband, the writer Howard Mansfield, and their border collie Thurber.
Sy writes for adults and children, for print and broadcast, in America and overseas in an effort to reach as wide an audience as possible at what she considers a critical turning point in human history. “We are on the cusp of either destroying this sweet, green Earth—or revolutionizing the way we understand the rest of animate creation,” she says. “It’s an important time to be writing about the connections we share with our fellow creatures. It’s a great time to be alive.”
• Doors open & Brunch is available from 10AM.
• There will be no Brunch Service once the program begins @ 12noon.
• Ticket price does not include Brunch.
Proceeds from this event directly benefit the Ayer Library and the Hazen Memorial Library in Shirley.
Sy Montgomery (Bull Run Restaurant)
Date and Time
Sunday Oct 22, 2023
