Hope Is The Thing With Feathers
A Personal Chronicle of Vanished Birds
January 21, 2025, 6:30 pm, Zoom REGISTER NOW
Golden Eagle Audubon is excited to present a lecture by Christopher Cokinos, author of Hope Is the Thing With Feathers: A Personal Chronicle of Vanished Birds, for our January Monthly Program on January 21, 2025. The program is free and open to everyone.
Christopher will share how he came to be obsessed with the stories of several extinct North American birds. He will share highlights in the discoveries about their natural history and how, belatedly, a few people came together to try to protect them. While those efforts did not work for, say, the Passenger Pigeon or the Heath Hen, in those stories Christopher writes, “we can take inspiration to redefine the word "hope" from "wish" to "work" as we continue efforts for a just, vibrant and biodiverse world.”
Christopher Cokinos is the author of the classic natural history Hope Is the Thing with Feathers: A Personal Chronicle of Vanished Birds, along with, most recently, Still as Bright: An Illuminating History of the Moon from Antiquity to Tomorrow. An award-winning teacher, Chris is recently retired from the University of Arizona. He's won awards from several venues, including the National Science Foundation's Antarctic Visiting Writer and Artist program. He lives in Logan, Utah, and continues to write for such publications as the Los Angeles Times, Astronomy and Esquire.
