Just on a dare, three college students climb a giant redwood and discover a whole ecosystem unknown to man!
Booktalk written and performed by Maggie Moran.
Mississippi autobiographies mentioned:
Richard Wright’s Black Boy
Mildred Topp’s Smile Please
Eudora Welty’s One Writer’s Beginnings
Anne Moody’s Coming of Age in Mississippi
Edward Cohen’s The Peddler’s Grandson
Kevin Sessums’ Mississippi Sissy
Booktalk written and performed by Maggie Moran.
Michael Pollan's main point in the book is our relationship with plants determines their survival. Through four different examples (apple, tulip, marijuana, and potato) he proves mankind is swayed by sweetness, beauty, intoxication, and control.
Booktalk written and performed by Maggie Moran.
Original booktalk by Maggie Moran on Wednesday, August 06, 2008. Appeared in Southern Reporter, Tate Co. Democrat, Tunica Times, and DeSoto Tribune newspapers.