Please join us for an author event with David Silver, author of The Farm at Black Mountain College, when he returns to Claremont Branch for a book signing, reading, and Q&A.
David's fascinating new book offers a very different perspective from the many books on the famous and soon-to-be famous people such as Ruth Asawa, John Cage, Merce Cunningham and Charles Olson, so frequently associated with the school. Through deep original research, The Farm at Black Mountain College follows renegade students, faculty and farmers as they establish a campus farm in the 1930s, build a better farm in the 1940s and watch it all collapse in the 1950s. We meet a new cast of BMC characters whose stories have seldom, if ever, been explored, and whose endeavors on the land helped shape the Black Mountain College of myth and extraordinary reality.
David Silver is professor and chair of environmental studies at the University of San Francisco. He teaches classes on urban agriculture, hyperlocal food systems and food, culture and storytelling.
Light refreshments will be served. Please call 510-981-6280 for more information.