

# Event Details

- **Event Name**: March Birdy Book Club
- **Event Start and End Date**: Mon, 09 Mar, 2026 at 06:00 pm – Mon, 09 Mar, 2026 at 07:00 pm
- **Event Description**: Book: "“The Home Place: Memoirs of a Colored Man’s Love Affair with Nature,” by J. Drew Lanham

About the book:

"Winner of the Southern Book Prize
Winner of the Reed Award from the Southern Environmental Law Center
Finalist for the John Burroughs Medal

“In me, there is the red of miry clay, the brown of spring floods, the gold of ripening tobacco. I am, in the deepest sense, colored.” From these fertile soils—of love, land, identity, family, and race—emerges The Home Place, a big-hearted, unforgettable memoir by ornithologist J. Drew Lanham.

Dating back to slavery, Edgefield County, South Carolina—a place “easy to pass by on the way to somewhere else”—has been home to generations of Lanhams. In The Home Place, readers meet these extraordinary people, including Drew himself, who over the course of the 1970s falls in love with the natural world around him. As his passion takes flight, however, he begins to ask what it means to be “the rare bird, the oddity”—to find joy and freedom in the same land his ancestors were tied to by forced labor, and then to be a black man in a profoundly white field.

By turns angry, funny, elegiac, and heartbreaking, The Home Place is a remarkable meditation on nature and belonging, at once a deeply moving memoir and riveting exploration of the contradictions of Black identity in the rural South—and in America today."
- **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/grand-rapids/march-birdy-book-club/200029534039910
- **Event Categories**: sports, workshops, health-wellness, meditation
- **Interested Audience**: 
  - total_interested_count: 15

## Ticket Details

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## Event venue details

- **city**: Grand Rapids
- **state**: MI
- **country**: United States
- **location**: Books & Mortar
- **lat**: 42.9596849
- **long**: -85.6452477
- **full address**: Books &amp; Mortar, 959 Cherry St SE, Grand Rapids, MI 49506-1403, United States

## Event Organizer details

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- **organizer**: Grand Rapids Audubon Club (https://allevents.in/org/grand-rapids-audubon-club/12975404)

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## FAQs

- **Q**: When is the event happening?
  - **A:** Mon, 09 Mar, 2026 at 06:00 pm
- **Q**: Where is the event happening?
  - **A:** Books &amp; Mortar, 959 Cherry St SE, Grand Rapids, MI 49506-1403, United States
- **Q**: Who is organizing the event?
  - **A:** Grand Rapids Audubon Club
- **Q**: What type of event is this?
  - **A:** sports, workshops, health-wellness, meditation
- **Q**: Where can I find ticket details about March Birdy Book Club ?
  - **A:** You can find ticket details about this event on AllEvents.

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