Rick Van Noy
April 27, 2025 | 3 pm @ Sinking Spring Presbyterian Church
• APRIL 27:Friends of the Washington County Public Library presentsRick Van Noyat the Sinking Spring Presbyterian Church, Abingdon, Va., at 3 p.m. Meet Rick Van Noy, a Radford University English professor and environmental activist, who will speak about his work, “Sudden Spring: Stories of Adaptation in a Climate-Changed South.” Using creative non-fiction techniques of narrative, scene, humor, and dialogue, Van Noy says that in the book, he wants to move climate change “out of abstraction, to bring it down to a local level in ways that real people experience it.” He is the author of the book “A Natural Sense of Wonder: Connecting Kids with Nature Through the Seasons” and of essays in “Teaching the Literature of Climate Change and Thinking Continental: Writing Local in a Global World.” Part of the Sunday with Friends series. Free and open to the public. 276-676-6233, www.wcpl.net
Category: Literature