Good morning Sierrans,

Two announcements of interest:

"Wild Utah: America's Redrock Wilderness" Presentation
The Sierra Club Rochester Regional Group is sponsoring

"Wild Utah: America's Redrock Wilderness" is a multi-media slideshow documenting citizen efforts to designate public lands in southern Utah's spectacular canyon country as part of the National Wilderness Preservation System.  This 20-minute journey through redrock splendor invigorates and motivates viewers to participate in the movement to protect these unique lands.

In conjunction with a presentation on the current status of the Utah wilderness movement by Jackie Feinberg, National Grassroots Organizer for the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance, this inspirational and informational event is a must see for people wishing to become personally involved to make the difference in this tremendous American public lands conservation effort.
WHAT: "Wild Utah: America's Redrock Wilderness" Presentation

WHERE: Brighton Town Hall - Auditorium, 2300 Elmwood Ave. Rochester, NY

WHEN: Monday, November 16 at 7:00pm

WHO: Jackie Feinberg, National Grassroots Organizer for the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance; hosted by the Sierra Club Rochester Regional Group

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The Abundance Reading Group has joined with the Sierra Club Book Discussion Group for our monthly book discussions.

Next Meeting: Thursday, November 19th at 7:00 in the Cafe area.  Meet the author. Refreshments will be served.

Glorious Adventure by Carter Catlett Williams
[from http://www.pioneernetwork.net/Store/GloriousAdventure/]

This book pictures a woman reaching her fullest vibrancy as an elder,once she ventures into inner territory that had seemed too forbidding in her earlier years. Letters from the father she could not remember were the means of coming to know him, learning of his love for her and hers for him, and coming to terms with his death. Too many of us believe that there is little of worth that happens in later life. We dread our own aging, as though adventure and passion are used up and all that remains is a penchant for repeating the old stories. Glorious Adventure shows how much awaits us, if we dare.
Carter Catlett Williams of Rochester, NY, was born in Texas in 1923. Following college, she earned a Master of Social Work degree, specializing in medical social work. In 1951, she married Thomas Franklin Williams of North Carolina; they have a son and a daughter. Her husband, Frank became one of the first geriatricians in this country. After the child-raising years,Carter returned to social work in a day program for elders in Rochester and as consultant to several nursing homes. She became deeply concerned about the downward turn she observed in the lives of elders who entered nursing homes, and identified the use of physical restraints, which were placed on many people, as a destructive practice.

Once she saw restraint-free care in a Swedish nursing home, she joined with others to spread the word that such practice was possible,and she spoke widely across the country. In these travels she met others who were forging new and very different approaches to elder services. Together with other leaders, she helped shape the first conference of people pioneering the transformation of nursing homes - and the Pioneer Network was born.

Carter recently has devoted most of her time to writing her new book based on the memoirs of her father: Glorious Adventure  

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