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Ask Not What Your Country Can Feed You.... Lecture ~ April 8, 2011

Curt Ellis, FoodCorps founder and documentary filmmaker, will deliver the 11th annual Casey Shearer Memorial Lecture at Brown University on Friday, April 8, 2011. His talk, titled “Ask Not What Your Country Can Feed You ~ Ask What You Can Feed Your Country,” will begin at 6:30 p.m. in Stuart Theatre.

This event is free and open to the public.

The lectureship, sponsored by Brown University and the Goldway-Shearer family, was established in memory of Casey Shearer, a promising young writer and aspiring sportscaster who died in May 2000, days before he was to graduate from Brown. Previous speakers have included Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer A. Scott Berg, ESPN anchor Chris Berman, New York Times columnist Thomas Friedman, ABC analyst Cokie Roberts, Marian Wright Edelman of the Children’s Defense Fund, film director Davis Guggenheim, and NPR national political correspondent Mara Liasson.

Prior to the lecture, the winners of the annual Casey Shearer Memorial Award for Excellence in Creative Nonfiction will be announced.

Brown University, Stuart Theater, 77 Waterman St, Providence, RI 02906
Friday, April 8, 2011, 6:30 – 7:30pm

Is Your Earth/Arbor Day Event in What Grows On in Rhode Island?

What Grows On in Rhode Island has compiled the most comprehensive online Earth Day calendar for Rhode Island in 2011, with dozens of cleanups, celebrations, films, nature/outdoor activities, and tree plantings, but it is not complete. IS YOUR EVENT LISTED?

WHY ADD YOUR EVENT TO WHAT GROWS ON IN RHODE ISLAND?

• Hundreds of people see this calendar.
• Events listed here show up on ecoRI and several other websites automatically.
• What Grows On in RI email newsletter reaches more than one thousand interested Rhode Islanders.
• Events listed in the Earth Day/Arbor Day Calendar will be on twitter @provgardener and on Facebook.com/whatgrowsonri
• Listings are free and indexed for easy searching.
• The calendar is being widely promoted this month, giving your event more visibility.
• Show the world how many Rhode Islanders care about our state.
• The sum is greater than the parts.

CHECK TO SEE IF YOUR ORGANIZATION's EARTH DAY EVENTS ARE LISTED HERE. Sort by your town or organization to see if your events are listed. (The indexing may not be complete for organization, but the indexing by town/city is complete.)
http://www.whatgrowsonri.com/earth_day_arbor_day.html

N.B.: CHECK FIRST BEFORE ADDING! A couple of events have been added three times. Send me updates and corrections and I'll fix existing records.

IF YOUR EVENT IS MISSING, PLEASE ADD YOUR FREE LISTING HERE:
http://www.whatgrowsonri.com/add_event.html

It only takes a couple of minutes to fill out this form, and many hundreds of Rhode Islanders will notice your event if it is in the calendar. Many hands make light work! At the moment, I am the entire staff maintaining this calendar!

With the huge number of events to be listed at this time of year, it is important for each group to add their own events. If you just send an email to me and ask me to add a new event, I may not have time to add it. I will correct existing listings, though. If there are errors in current listings please let me know. [email protected].

Please forward this post to others who may be interested or better able to add their events to the RI EARTH DAY CALENDAR.

Thank you for what you are doing for Rhode Island's environment!

Cheers,

Sue Korté, Managing Editor
What Grows On in Rhode Island