BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//indianafreelibrary.org//NONSGML kigkonsult.se iCalcreator 2.30.10 // CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH UID:02179d7f-dc45-4238-abbd-9bf85c4af254 X-WR-CALDESC:A decade ago Philip Connors left work as an editor at the Wall Street Journal and talked his way into a job far from the streets of lowe r Manhattan: working as one of the last fire lookouts in America. Spending nearly half the year in a 7' x 7' tower\, 10\,000 feet above sea level in remote New Mexico\, his tasks were simple: keep watch over one of the mos t fire-prone forests in the country and sound the alarm at the first sign of smoke.\n\nFire Season is Connors's remarkable reflection on work\, our place in the wild\, and the charms of solitude. The landscape over which h e keeps watch is rugged and roadless — it was the first region in the worl d to be officially placed off limits to industrial machines — and it typic ally gets hit by lightning more than 30\,000 times per year. Connors recou nts his days and nights in this forbidding land\, untethered from the comf orts of modern life: the eerie pleasure of being alone in his glass-walled perch with only his dog Alice for company\; occasional visits from smokej umpers and long-distance hikers\; the strange dance of communion and warin ess with bears\, elk\, and other wild creatures\; trips to visit the hidde n graves of buffalo soldiers slain during the Apache wars of the nineteent h century\; and always the majesty and might of lightning storms and untam ed fire. Written with narrative verve and startling beauty\, and filled wi th reflections on his literary forebears who also served as lookouts — amo ng them Edward Abbey\, Jack Kerouac\, and Gary Snyder — Fire Season is a b ook to stand the test of time.\n X-WR-RELCALID:73beff0e06b175d54a90a43d1b4a3b7f X-WR-TIMEZONE:America/New_York BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:STANDARD TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20221106T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 RDATE:20231105T020000 RDATE:20241103T020000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20230312T020000 TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 RDATE:20240310T020000 END:DAYLIGHT END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT UID:5c0036c2-5eaf-4a5d-b6a5-a28d2f5dabc5 DTSTAMP:20260418T120353Z DESCRIPTION:A decade ago Philip Connors left work as an editor at the Wall Street Journal and talked his way into a job far from the streets of lower Manhattan: working as one of the last fire lookouts in America. Spending nearly half the year in a 7' x 7' tower\, 10\,000 feet above sea level in remote New Mexico\, his tasks were simple: keep watch over one of the most fire-prone forests in the country and sound the alarm at the first sign o f smoke.\n\nFire Season is Connors's remarkable reflection on work\, our p lace in the wild\, and the charms of solitude. The landscape over which he keeps watch is rugged and roadless — it was the first region in the world to be officially placed off limits to industrial machines — and it typica lly gets hit by lightning more than 30\,000 times per year. Connors recoun ts his days and nights in this forbidding land\, untethered from the comfo rts of modern life: the eerie pleasure of being alone in his glass-walled perch with only his dog Alice for company\; occasional visits from smokeju mpers and long-distance hikers\; the strange dance of communion and warine ss with bears\, elk\, and other wild creatures\; trips to visit the hidden graves of buffalo soldiers slain during the Apache wars of the nineteenth century\; and always the majesty and might of lightning storms and untame d fire. Written with narrative verve and startling beauty\, and filled wit h reflections on his literary forebears who also served as lookouts — amon g them Edward Abbey\, Jack Kerouac\, and Gary Snyder — Fire Season is a bo ok to stand the test of time.\n DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230711T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20230711T120000 LOCATION: SUMMARY:True Story Book Club: Fire Season: Field Notes from a Wilderness Lo okout by Philip Connors END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR