For Immediate Release
September 19, 2001

A SENSE OF PLACE:
AT HOME IN THE CONNECTICUT RIVER VALLEY

The Continuation of Mount Holyoke College's Environmental Lecture Series

South Hadley, Ma. – The Center for Environmental Literacy at Mount Holyoke College is continuing the popular lecture and slide presentation series, begun last year, to highlight and explore more of our special places and open spaces in the Valley, with some of the people who know and love it best.

On Tuesday evening, October 2 at 7:00PM in Gamble Auditorium at Mount Holyoke College, Robie Hubley will give the first talk of the new semester, "With a Little Help From My Friends." Robie is presently the Legislative Director for the Massachusetts Audubon Society, but his roots in the Valley are old and deep. He was the director of the Arcadia Wildlife Sanctuary for MA Audubon for many years, and from the 1960s to the present has been a key leader of the environmental movement in the Valley.

Robie plans to bring along one of his "friends" and co-conspirators, Alexandra Dawson, presently the chair of the Hadley Conservation Commission, to help him paint the picture of those early years. Robie is a forceful, dynamic public speaker, and his talk will focus on the struggle for supremacy between the natural and the human systems that governed and still govern the Valley. Don't miss this once-in-a-lifetime event!

The event is free, open to the public and wheelchair accessible.