INDOOR PROGRAMS

Sit back, relax, and enjoy. Or jump in, exercise your brain and writing hand, and learn.

Ed has combined his passion for nature with his love of photography since 1976. Let him entertain your group with a slide program on one of the following topics. Or work with him to develop a program to meet the specific needs of your class or group.

  • The Adirondacks Alive: An Introduction To The Lower 48's Biggest Park And Its Flora and Fauna

  • Below Zero And Above Reproach: The Virtues Of The Adirondack Winter

  • Suddenly, Spring: The Adirondacks Burst Back To Life When The Snow Melts

  • Megaflora: Introducing Adirondack Trees

  • Birds Of The Adirondacks

  • Wildflowers Of The Adirondacks

  • Adirondack: Life and Wildlife In The Wild, Wild East: a program about Ed's deep roots in the region and his own life here, based on his SUNY Press book of the same title

  • Kangaroo Dreaming: An Australian Wildlife Odyssey, about a 25,000 mile road trip Ed and his wife, Debbie made around the Kangaroo Continent, featured in his book of the same title

  • New Zealand, North To South: An introduction to one of the world's greenest countries and its unique flora and fauna, inspired by his book on New Zealand

  • The World Of John Burroughs, a slide program that, reversing the usual order, gave rise to his biography of Burroughs (1837-1921), friend of Walt Whitman, Theodore Roosevelt, John Muir, Thomas Edison, and Henry Ford and the most celebrated nature of his time

  • Ed also enjoys presenting selected readings from his works

  • Ed has presented programs for Acadia National Park, the Adirondack Ecological Center, the Adirondack Museum, the Adirondack Park Visitor Interpretive Centers at Newcomb and Paul Smith's, the Aspetuck Land Trust, the American Museum of Natural History, the Atmospheric Sciences Research Center at Whiteface Mountain, the Buffalo Museum of Science, the Cornell University Laboratory of Ornithology, the Greenburgh Nature Center, Gulf Islands National Seashore, Middlebury College, Misericordia University, the Mohonk Mountain House, the New York Botanical Garden, SUNY Albany, SUNY Oneonta (keynote addresses for two professional conferences), SUNY Potsdam, Paul Smith's College, Teatown Lake Reservation, the Trailside Nature Museum, the Westchester chapter of the American College of Surgeons, and professional conferences, garden clubs, public libraries, and Audubon societies in many states.

Or jump in, exercise your brain and writing hand, and learn.

Ed knows enough to know he doesn't know it all, not by a country mile. But in years of journaling, writing, and publishing, he's expanded his writer's toolkit and gained an ever expanding idea of what's interesting, what works, and how to tell a story. If you or you and a group would benefit from a writing workshop with Ed, please contact him. He'll be delighted to work with you.