Book Talk : Tom Wessels

Author of, Granite, Fire, & Fog The Natural and Cultural History of Acadia.
The only book that offers both a natural and a cultural history of one of the nation’s favorite parks

Join Tom Wessels for this fascinating illustrated talk about his new book.

Acadia National Park, on Maine’s Mount Desert Island, is among the most popular national parks in the United States. From the road, visitors can experience magnificent vistas of summit and sea, but on a more intimate scale, equally compelling views abound along Acadia’s hiking trails.Tom Wessels, an ecologist, naturalist, and avid hiker, attributes the park’s popularity—and its unusual beauty—to the unique way in which earth, air, fire, and water—in the form of glacially scoured granite, winter winds, fire, and ocean fog—have converged to create a landscape that can be found nowhere else.