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Birds of South Africa

9/25/2018

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​October Meeting, Tennessee Ornithological Society, Chattanooga Chapter
 
Ascension Lutheran Church 720 S Germantown Rd Thursday, October 11 5:30 p.m.  Executive Board 7:00 p.m.  Monthly Meeting Program:   For our October 11 meeting, O. J. Morgan will present a program on his birding trip last year to South Africa. O.J. is Headmaster of The Bright School. Some of you may not know O.J., but he joined our chapter of TOS about three years ago, has become an active birder, and encourages bird awareness and observing at his school. 
  
Thanks  Thanks to David Aborn for presenting an illustrated talk on birds of Argentina and bird banding in Argentina at our September meeting.  
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A Woman Walked into the Bar

9/24/2018

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Featured Reading at Star Line Books
6:30 PM, Tuesday, October 9, 2018
Star Line Books, Suite 106, 1467 Market Street, Chattanooga, TN 37402
 
From the Midwest Book Review to The Irish Times (Dublin), critics have praised A Woman Walked into the Bar, Linda Heuring’s recent collection of fifteen short stories. This collection is her most recent achievement in a literary career with recognition on two continents.
 
Ebenezer has a plane to catch and winds up at a Caribbean resort for the generously-figured.  Marva is trapped by a pie safe at the bottom of her basement stairs.  Mister Fisher hopes to cash in on his momma’s dog’s pedigree.  Henry’s wife goes missing. Derwin gets blown up by bug foggers.  Roger’s morning commute on the Metra takes him two stops closer to a confrontation. These are just a few of the characters in Linda H. Heuring’s 15-story collection, A Woman Walked into the Bar.  The characters in these stories worm their way into your psyche.  They don’t always do the right (or legal) thing, but they act for the right reasons.
 
            Heuring, who lives in suburban Chicago, is a short story writer known for her character-driven narratives and her penchant for the overheard phrase. Her short fiction has appeared in Crack the Spine, Crannog (Ireland), Rosebud, Kestrel, Alabama Literary Review, Broad River Review, and Dos Passos Review, among other publications.  She has been awarded the Fish International Short Story Prize (Ireland), the Rash Award in Fiction, and was shortlisted for the Bridport Prize (UK) among other honors.
 
            A graduate of DePauw University majoring in English composition, Heuring has been a journalist, newspaper editor, marketing executive, and public relations firm owner.  She has been writing full-time for the past 16 years.
 
Praise for A Woman Walked into the Bar
            “This collection of stories is the work of a writer who has mastered the craft.  It’s one of the best collections I have read in years.  There’s not a bum story, not a bum line.”
              — Clem Cairns, publisher at Fish Publishing, County Cork, Ireland.
 
“In this amazing debut collection, Heuring deepens our understanding of the shapes of grief, passion, and sacrifice, effortlessly revealing how we connect, depend on one another, and how our lives are intertwined beyond the cultures that have defined us.”
            — Nancy Takacs, 2016 poetry winner of the Juniper Prize for The Worrier
 
             “Character creation, vivid scene-setting, [humor] and authentic dialogue are some of the strengths of this excellent short story collection.”
            — Brian Maye, The Irish Times
 
“Showcasing a genuine flair for narrative driven storytelling and the creation of truly memorable characters, author Linda Heuring's stories are original, unfailingly engaging, thoroughly entertaining, and inherently compelling.”
            — Midwest Review 
 
             New Pages named A Woman Walked into the Bar an Editor’s Pick for new books from university and independent presses.
 
 
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Water Lily

9/23/2018

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August 21, Greenway Farm, 1:00 PM

9/6/2018

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Greenway farm is a large wooded park in Hixson, a part of Chattanooga north of the Tennessee River. It includes a dog park, walking trails, two canoe launches, fishing access, Chickamauga Quarry and a building available for meetings by Reservation, (423) 643-6311. Further information is available at:
 
http://www.chattanooga.gov/public-works/parks

Here is my story of a recent visit:
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The old cabin and the garden provided numerous photographic opportunities. I visited the canoe launch which provides creek access, Like the river, the creek was running high and muddy.
The old quarry proved very photogenic, with blue-green water and vertical rock faces. Sneezeweed (Helenium sp.) was prevalent along the path.  
I remember finding some interesting Paleozoic fossils here in past years, primarily Crinoids, Bryozoans, and Brachiopods. I would imagine that it is well picked over by now.
Species Noted
Goldfinch at gardens
Eastern Blue birds at gardens
5 Lined Skink at quarry http://srelherp.uga.edu/lizards/eumfas.htm 
​Unusual Stinkhorn Fungus



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