John Muir: Family and Friends Conference Web Log

John Muir:
Family and Friends Conference

John Muir: Family and Friends
was the fifth conference on John Muir sponsored by the University of the Pacific. It was held May 4-6, 2001, at the Feather River Inn in the Sierra Nevada mountains north of Lake Tahoe. The Conference was organized and implemented by Bonnie Gisel, John Muir Center for Regional Studies, 3601 Pacific Ave., Stockton, CA 95211, (209) 946-2527, johnmuir@uop.edu

John Muir: Family and Friends

On May 4-6, 2001 University of the Pacific sponsored its fifth conference on John Muir, held at UOP's Feather River Inn north of Lake Tahoe, California in the Sierra Nevada mountains. The theme of the conference, the 53rd California History Institute, was John Muir: Family and Friends. Topics included:

Muir and family in Martinez and Southern California;
Muir's wilderness family and friends;
Muir and the fellowship of all believers;
Muir and Women;
Muir and the community of nature and science; and
Muir's friends and acquaintances.

No less than three new books about John Muir were announced at the conference:

John Muir's Last Journey - South to the Amazon and East to Africa: Unpublished Journals and Selected Correspondence, by John Muir, edited by Michael P. Branch
Kindred and Related Spirits: The Letters of John Muir and Jeanne C. Carr by Bonnie Gisel
Meditations from John Muir: Nature's Temple by Chris Highland

Learn more about the Conference:

Abstracts
Speaker Biographies
Conference Discussion Forum - Discuss the conference on our free message board!
Location Information - Photos and Map of Conference Location, Feather River Inn

Conference Program (PDF)

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