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DESCRIPTION:All are welcome to a\nBOOK READING AND SIGNING\nto kick off the publication 
 of "An Unnatural History of UCSC":\nA new book about fables, relics and 
 hidden forts of the UCSC Campus, edited by Writing Lecturer Jeff Arnett and 
 mostly written by students of his classes.\n\nA special guest from the days 
 of Elfland and the protests to save it will also be speaking.\n\nLight 
 refreshments will be provided.\n\nNoon, at the Bay Tree Bookstore.\n\nBOOK 
 REVIEW:\n\nSince it first opened, UCSC's 2000 acres of forest have lured 
 students seeking adventure, a respite from work, and spiritual guidance 
 into the wandering wood. An evocative landscape of the mind that resembles 
 sites in Spenser's Faerie Queene and tolkien's modern allegories, the 
 campus contains places symbolically named "Elfland." "Faerie Ring Redwood 
 Grove," "End of the World Pool," "Wayfarer's Den," "Den of Justice," "Dell 
 of the Winds," "Bridge to Heaven," and "Peace Fort." Stories abound 
 throughout UCSC's forty year history of inspiration, illumination and 
 enlightenment available in the backwood trails on campus. \n\nAn Unnatural 
 History of UCSC, a new student-written publication, gathers some of this 
 evocative, sometimes poignant, history through alumni reminiscences, 
 newspaper accounts, and photographic archives. One chapter, "Elfland: A 
 Trip Back in Time," for example, describes a poetics of space (Gaston 
 Bachelard's eponymous term), revealing a campus mythic legacy previously 
 available to most of us almost exclusively through oral tradition. \n\nIf 
 you're interested in finding out what a deer-cow or a morad is, or you're 
 curious about John o' the Woods or King of the Elves, two inhabitants at 
 one time or another of our campus, check out this book. You may discover a 
 hermetic aspect of college familiar to your parents' generation. \n\n- Don 
 Rothman \nSenior Lecturer Emeritus, Writing \nDirector Emeritus, Central 
 California Writing Project\n\n 
 https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/04/27/18495414.php
SUMMARY:"An Unnatural History of UCSC" book release event
LOCATION:Bay Tree Bookstore, UCSC
URL:https://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2008/04/27/18495414.php
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