Lecture Series

The John Trigg Ester Library Lecture Series features a different local speaker every month, celebrating the knowledge and skill of residents of the Ester area: writers, historians, scientists, farmers, miners, artists, builders, travelers, and more people and topics of interest to Ester. The 2013 series included:

January 18: Sandy Jamieson on hunting, art, and guiding: "Predator Control" and other Alaska political commentary

February 15: David Stone on animal long-distance navigation

March 21: Ross Coen on Alaska history (also book signing for The Long View: Dispatches on Alaska history)

April 18: marine ecologist C. Peter McRoy: Used Birds: What the Bering Sea Tells Us about the World Ocean

May 16: farmers Susan Willsrud and Tom Zimmer of Calypso Farm & Ecology Center on agrobiodiversity

June 20: ecologist Trish Wurtz on invasive plants

July 18: sociologist Sine Anahita: "The Winter of Bitter and Sweet:" on the organization of masculinity in gold seeker camps along the Koyukuk in 1898-99

August 15: organic farmer Mike Emers of Rosie Creek Farm on hybrids, GMOs, heirlooms, and other plant varieties CANCELED, TO BE RESCHEDULED

September 19: GEB program coordinator Deirdre Helfferich on seedsheds and seed libraries TO BE RESCHEDULED

October 24: cartoonist Jamie Smith on travels in Acadia

November 21: (speaker confirmation pending)