Four poetry collections, recent or forthcoming from Sugartown Publishing, mark the reemergence of a poetic movement known as the Activists. No, it’s not politics. “Activist” was the nationally recognized rubric for poets working with my father, teacher-critic Lawrence Hart, in the 1940s/50s and after. Since Lawrence’s death in 1996, a number of writers have continued [...]
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150 years ago, the Civil War was winding down, the struggle between emigrants and Indians on the Rocky Mountain frontier was ramping up, and an ancestor of mine, John Benton Hart (right, with his brother Hugh), was in the thick of it all. Late in life the man they called “Johnny” dictated vivid memories of [...]
John will be signing copies of an An Island in Time: 50 Years of Point Reyes National Seashore at the Dance Palace, Point Reyes Station. Following will be a showing of the new KRCB documentary film Rebels With a Cause about the extraordinary efforts of the ordinary people who saved the lands of the Point Reyes National Seashore [...]
John will present a slide show and signing of An Island in Time: 50 Years of Point Reyes National Seashore at Berkeley Ironworks Saturday December 8, 2012 from 1-3pm Berkeley Ironworks 800 Potter St. Berkeley, CA 94710 510 981 9900 (map)
John Hart, author of An Island in Time: 50 Years of Point Reyes National Seashore, will talk about the park Marin people love — and love to argue about – and will be interviewed by land-saving pioneer Doug Ferguson , co-founder of the Trust for Public Land. Thursday, December 6, 2012, 12 – 1pm California Room, Civic [...]
Author presentation and slide show on An Island in Time. I will be talking about the park Marin people love – and love to argue about and touch on its miraculous beginnings, its several identity crises, its awesome present, and its challenging future.