“SECOND SUNDAYS” PROGRAM FOR MARCH 2010 Screening of DIRT! The Movie and Q&A with Arborist and Author Bill Logan
Sunday, March 14, 2010 (All day)
Department:
Public Programs
Arborist and author Bill Logan introduces a screening of the documentary DIRT! The Movie. This feature-length film was inspired by Mr. Logan’s book Dirt: The Ecstatic Skin of the Earth, a thought-provoking series of forty-four essays on the natural history of soil and its connection to humans.
DIRT! The Movie—directed and produced by Bill Benenson and Gene Rosow—takes viewers inside the wonders of the soil from its miraculous beginning to its crippling degradation, telling the story of Earth's most valuable and underappreciated source of fertility. Narrated by Jamie Lee Curtis, DIRT! The Movie brings to life soil’s environmental, economic, social and political impact.
A question-and-answer period with Mr. Logan follows the screening. Both his book and a DVD of the documentary will be available in the Noguchi Museum shop on the day of the program.
Bill Logan is founder, president, and lead arborist of Urban Arborists, an organization that cares for trees and shrubs in cities and suburbs of the tri-state area. A garden columnist for The New York Times and teacher at the New York Botanical Garden School of Horticulture, he has lectured at numerous botanical gardens around the country, including the Arnold Arboretum, Boston, MA; the Morton Arboretum, Lisle, IL; and the Huntington Botanical Gardens, San Marino, CA. In addition to Dirt: The Ecstatic Skin of the Earth, he wrote Oak: The Frame of Civilization.
Mr. Logan has consulted with landscape architects, municipalities, companies and individuals. He is an ISA (International Society of Arboriculture) certified arborist and a member of the American Society of Consulting Arborists.
