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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:16.0pt;font-family:"Franklin Gothic Medium",sans-serif">PRESS RELEASE<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif">FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE FOR MORE INFORMATION, CONTACT:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif">July 17, 2023 Teresa Izzo<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><span style="font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif"> 508-896-3867 ext. 137<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<a href="mailto:tizzo@ccmnh.org">tizzo@ccmnh.org</a><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:115%"><b><span style="font-family:"Franklin Gothic Medium",sans-serif">The Cape Cod Museum of Natural History
</span></b><b><span style="font-family:"Franklin Gothic Medium",sans-serif">presents</span></b><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Franklin Gothic Medium",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:115%"><b><i><span style="font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif">A Traveler’s Guide to the End of the World<o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:115%"><b><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif">Tales of Fire, Wind and Water</span></i></b><b><i><span style="font-size:10.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></i></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center"><b><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif;color:black">with<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;line-height:115%"><b><span style="font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif"> Author David Gessner</span></b><b><span style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif"><o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%"><b><span style="font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif;color:#262626">BREWSTER, MA —
</span></b><span style="font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif;color:#262626">The Cape Cod Museum of Natural History in Brewster presents
</span><i><span style="font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif;color:#333333;background:white">A Traveler’s Guide to the End of the World: Tales of Fire, Wind and Water</span></i><span style="font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif;color:black">
with author and environmentalist, David Gessner<b> Thursday, August 17, 2023 at 1:00pm</b></span><span style="font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif;color:black">.</span><span style="font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif;color:#262626"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:8.0pt;line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif;color:black">In his latest book<i>, A Traveler’s Guide to the End of the World,
</i></span><span style="font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif;color:black">veteran nature writer David Gessner uses powerful examples of environmental devastation to show a myriad of ways in which climate change is altering areas across the United States.
Drawing on research, it describes a version of the United States in which the air itself is difficult to breathe, in which populated coastal areas have been abandoned to the tides, and wildfires have become ever more commonplace. Gessner describes a country
wherein the rich and poor alike will pay the costs of the country’s inaction, and he uses current examples to set a troubling baseline upon which dangerous feedback loops build.</span><span style="font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="contentpasted0" style="margin:0in;background:white"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif;color:black">Drawing on personal experiences and conversations with affected communities,<span class="contentpasted01"> </span><em><span style="font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif">A
Traveler’s Guide to the End of the World</span></em><span class="contentpasted01"> </span>issues moving warnings about future dangers while bearing witness to the precarious present.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%"><span style="font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif;color:black">David Gessner is a professor at the University of North Carolina Wilmington and the author of thirteen books that blend a love of nature, humor,
memoir, and environmentalism, including <i>The Return of the Osprey</i>, <i>The Prophet of Dry Hill,</i> <i>Leave It As It Is: A Journey Through Theodore Roosevelt’s American Wilderness</i>, and<i> Quiet Desperation, Savage Delight: Sheltering with Thoreau
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%"><b><span style="font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif;color:#262626">Tickets: $10 per person Tickets available online at
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:"Franklin Gothic Book",sans-serif;color:#262626">For more information please call the Museum at 508-896-3867 ext. 133.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">Teresa Izzo<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">Program Coordinator/Publicist<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">Cape Cod Museum of Natural History<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">869 Main St. / Rte. 6A<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">Brewster, MA 02631<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;color:black;mso-ligatures:none">508-896-3867, ext. 137<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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