Longwood Gardens, Area Libraries And Organizations, Plan ‘Community Read’

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This year's Community Read selection is a meditation on natural relationships.

Longwood Gardens, along with numerous area libraries and community organizations, have just launched the second annual Community Read, taking place now through April.

The event is designed to encourage the region to join together in reading the same books to spur discussions around specific ideas and topics.

This year’s book is “Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants” by Robin Kimmerer. The selection is a book-length exploration of the relationship humans have to the natural world.

Robin Wall Kimmerer
Robin Wall Kimmerer

Paul B. Redman, Longwood’s executive director, said “Braiding Sweetgrass” encourages a holistic relationship between humans and nature, which is integral to Longwood Gardens.  Similarly, “The Great Kapok Tree” teaches children the importance of trees and about the interdependence of living things.

New this year is a children’s title, “The Great Kapok Tree” by Lynne Cherry. The book offers young readers an inspired look at what the Kapok Tree means to the creatures that live in it—and what rainforests mean to the world’s ecology.

Family Community Read Day will take place at Longwood on Saturday, March 7. Longwood will also offer “Braiding Sweetgrass” Book Chats and a community conversations April 11-12.

Read more about Community Read and how to jump into the conversation in the Unionville Times here.

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