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November Audubon Page-Turning with author Chris Sweeney

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Discussion Arts and Culture Open to Faculty/Staff Open to Students Open to the Public Outdoors

Fri, Nov 6, 2026

12:30 PM – 1 PM EST (GMT-5)

Special Collections & Archives Reading Room, Third Floor, Hawthorne-Longfellow Library

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Join Special Collections & Archives for the monthly page-turning of John James Audubon's magnificent double-elephant folio "Birds of America." This month's guest speaker is Chris Sweeney. Sweeney is an award-winning journalist whose reporting has appeared in Audubon, The Guardian, Popular Science, Men’s Journal, and WIRED, among many others and the author of "The Feather Detective: Mystery, Mayhem, and the Magnificent Life of Roxie Laybourne" (Simon & Schuster, 2025).

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