The Tree Collectors: Tales of Arboreal Obsession
with Amy Stewart, author
Wednesday, October 30, 7-8 p.m. ET
Virtual
$15 AHS members/$20 non-members
When Amy Stewart discovered a community of tree collectors, she expected to meet horticultural fanatics driven to plant every species of oak or maple. But she also discovered that the urge to collect trees springs from something deeper and more profound: a longing for community, a vision for the future, or a path to healing and reconciliation. In this talk, Stewart introduces audiences to several of the remarkable people she met from around the world whose lives were transformed by their relationships to trees. Accompanied by her own hand-drawn illustrations of people and their trees, this talk inspires audiences to reconsider their own connections to trees–and maybe start a collection!
Amy Stewart is the New York Times best-selling author of The Tree Collectors, The Drunken Botanist, Wicked Plants, and several other popular nonfiction titles about the natural world. Her books have sold over a million copies worldwide and have been translated into 18 languages. She has been featured in NPR’s Morning Edition of Fresh Air, the New York Times, CBS Sunday Morning, Good Morning America, and the PBS documentary The Botany of Desire. Her book Wicked Plants was adapted into a national traveling exhibit at science museums nationwide for over a decade. Stewart is the recipient of a National Endowment for the Arts fellowship, the American Horticulture Society’s Book Award, and an International Association of Culinary Professionals Food Writing Award. Stewart is based in Portland, Oregon.
