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Wolf Empire Book Signing at Howland Cultural Center
Award-winning photographer, Scott Ian Barry will be present at the Howland Cultural Center on "Second Saturday, Beacon", July 14 to sign his book, Wolf Empire, a stunning visual record of wolves with a highly intimate narrative of their often mystifying way of life.
"Each high-quality photograph is accompanied by a narrative in which Barry relates the circumstances that led to the taking of the photo, or some unique personal observation about wolf behavior gathered from his more than thirty years of experience as a wildlife photographer. His great reverence for these magnificent animals comes through in frame after frame of wolves in varying degrees of harmony and aggression, excitement and tranquility, cooperation and solitude- all part of their experience and essential to their survival. Barry's photographs show wolves for the individuals they are, a species as diverse as humans." Tom Brokaw states.
Scott Ian Barry's photos have been published in the New York Times and the Los Angeles Times and with the Smithsonian Institution and the Sierra Club. In 1972, Barry volunteered to help raise and study a pack of seventeen captive wolves in New York State. Since 1974 he has presented lectures at the Smithsonian Institute, the U.S. Department of the Interior, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, the Sierra Club, the National Audubon Society, the School of Wildlife Management, the National Park Service, the Canadian National Exhibition, the Cheyenne River Sioux Reservation and schools, universities, and museums across the United States. Barry has since worked firsthand with approximately forty wolves, lived with ten, and has observed the behavior of more than one hundred.
Barry has provided expertwitness testimony in several cases involving wolves, and has helped form legislation on the ownership of wolves and wolfdog hybrids for the states of New York, New Jersey, and Maryland. He has lobbied in Congress to support the Federal Anti-Aircraft Hunting Act to halt the shooting of wolves in Alaska from aircraft, and has met with President Carter on behalf of wolves and the environment.
Barry's extraordinary photos of wolves appear in the children's book Kingdom of the Wolves, which won the outstanding science trade book award from the National Science Teachers' Association, and in a wolf calendar. The booksigning event will begin at 3pm and extend on into the evening. Barry will also be presenting a video program during the afternoon of his experiences with wolves. Following the book signing and video presentation, Chris Ruhe and his Howland Wolves musicians will perform a complimentary program of old jazz and blues music at 7pm. The members of the Howland Wolves are Chris Ruhe, vocals and guitar, Chris Shann, saxophone, Allan Paul, bass, Olu Akiwumi-Assani, percussions, Rafael Figueroa, vocals and percussion, and the latest performer to join the group, Goldee Greene, vocals and keyboard.
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