Additional thanks to our friends at Cabot Creamery and Dairy Queen (Spring Road) for donating prizes.
And the final numbers are in! Way to go Smyrna Library Kids, that's a lot of reading. We hope you enjoyed using Beanstack, earning badges, and participating in all of the virtual programming this year. We know it was a very different Summer Reading Program than we've had in the past but we had fun and hope you did, too.
"A Short History of Bird Feeding in America"Professor Jeff Van Detta
Program Summary
Professor Van Detta's presentation is based on the book Feeding Wild Birds in America: Culture, Commerce, and Conservation. The presentation also incorporates fascinating material from the works of Francis Merriam, including her 1889 classic, Birds Through An Opera Glass; the works of Roger Tory Peterson and David Allen Sibley; and Professor Van Detta's own personal experiences in feeding birds in Smyrna.
He uses a richly illustrated PowerPoint to engage the audience and to explain how the extraordinary history of backyard bird feeding (1) informs us about feeding our own local backyard birds today; and (2) helps us to support their annual nesting season and the sojourn of migratory birds in our area during spring and fall.
Speaker Biography
Professor Jeffrey Van Detta has been a lawyer for 33 years, a resident of Georgia for 32 years, and a law professor and legal scholar for 21 years. He has been a knowledgeable amateur bird feeder since summers during the 1960s and 1970s that he spent in Northern Alabama with his maternal grandmother. He has also been a principal in a local bird feeding store.
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