Tuesday Evening Lecture: The Beasts of The Easts: The Fall and Rise of America's Eastern Wilderness

Bio: Andrew Moore is the author of The Beasts of the East: The Fall and Rise of America's Eastern Wilderness and Pawpaw: In Search of America's Forgotten Fruit, which was a James Beard Foundation Book Award finalist in Writing and Literature. Moore has been featured on PBS News Hour and in The Atlantic, The New York Times, Saveur, The Washington Post, and The Wall Street Journal. His writing has appeared in The Washington Post, the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, The Daily Yonder, and The Allegheny Front. He lives in Pittsburgh.

Program description: Before skyscrapers and smokestacks transformed the eastern United States, the region was home to an astonishing abundance of wildlife. Elk roamed Illinois, bison grazed the prairies of Indiana, and wolves and cougars moved through vast forests and wetlands stretching from the Northeast to the Deep South. In his acclaimed book The Beasts of the East, environmental writer and James Beard…