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Nature Book Club

• Wednesday, November 18, 2026, 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
• Wednesday, January 27, 2027, 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
• Wednesday, March 31, 2027, 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM

Clinton County Cornell Cooperative Extension is proud to partner with Point au Roche State Park to host their Nature Book Club!

Love nature and curious about the world around you? Join our fun, friendly book club where we dive into exciting non-fiction books all about the natural world! Whether it’s wildlife, botany, ecosystems, or the science behind it all, we’ll explore fascinating topics and share our thoughts over great conversation.
Grab a book, bring your love for nature, and come hang out with us! We meet the last Wednesday of every other month in person at our office, or virtually via Zoom. To receive the link and passcode for this meeting or to access this club via StoryGraph, reach out to Tia Legge at vrl29@cornell.edu or at (518) 561-7450.

Book for This Meeting:

Ghosts Behind Glass: Encountering Extinction in Museums by Dolly Jørgensen

"Thought-provoking... This meticulous unpacking of curatorial choices conveys the complexity of telling the extinction story even as the number of extinction species rapidly balloons." - Publishers Weekly.

How museums display extinct species - and what these exhibits say about us.

While it's no longer possible to encounter a dodo in the wild, we can still come face-to-face with them in museums. The remains of extinct species - whether taxidermied, skeletal, drawn, or sculpted - stare back at us from display cases. 

In this moving meditation on what's lost and what endures, environmental historian Dolly Jørgensen visits natural history collections worldwide - from Shanghai to Philadelphia, from Edinburgh to Hobart, Australia - to understand the many ways that museums tell stories about extinction. She encounters extinct animals that are framed as cultural artifacts and as rare valuables, that are memorialized with lists, and that are brought to life with augmented reality. She draws our attention to creatures with prominent afterlives - passenger pigeons, giant moas, thylacines - as well as those that are less likely to be discussed or displayed. Throughout, Jørgensen examines the relationship between museums and the natural world, so readers can look more closely at exhibits about extinction, studying the displays for what is there, as well as what is missing. During a period of rapid species loss driven by humanity's environmental impact, Ghosts Behind Glass asks what we can learn about our world from the presence of the extinct.

Book for the Next Meeting (January 27th):

Junkyard Planet: Travels in the Billion Dollar Trash Trade by Adam Minter

Book for the Meeting after (March 31st):

The First Adirondackers: 12,000 Years of Indigenous Peoples in the Adirondack Uplands by Curt Stager

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Meetings are held at 10:00am the last Wednesday of the month every other month at Cornell Cooperative Extension Clinton County, but are hybrid and can be attended via zoom. They land in January, March, May, July, September, and November. Voting for the next book is chosen at this meeting. In partnership with Point au Roche State Park, contact Kristin Collins at kristin.collins@parks.ny.gov or at (518) 563-0369 for questions pertaining to the park. 

Fee

$0.00

Register

Reach out to vrl29@cornell.edu for the link!

Location

Cornell Cooperative Extension of Clinton County
6064 State Route 22
Plattsburgh , NY 12901

Last updated October 1, 2026