Jeremy Lloyd presents Forest Time: Footnotes to an Outdoor Education
Schedule
Sat, 20 Jun, 2026 at 03:00 pm
UTC-04:00Location
3 East Jackson Street, Sylva, NC, United States, North Carolina 28779 | Sylva, NC
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Jeremy Lloyd will visit City Lights on Saturday, June 20th at 3:00pm to share his new book, Forest Time: Footnotes to an Outdoor Education."With an ear for irony and human folly, Lloyd acts as a trail guide for readers who may have no experience in our national parks while able at the same time to provoke wonder and intrigue in even the most seasoned wilderness explorer.”
–Annette Saunooke Clapsaddle, author of Even As We Breathe
In his twenties, broke, brokenhearted, and fearful about the future, Jeremy Lloyd stumbled into a job that would change his life. More than two decades later, still an educator at Tremont in Great Smoky Mountains National Park, Lloyd recounts his journey as a teacher and student of the great outdoors in Forest Time: Footnotes to an Education Outdoors. Blending natural history, daring—and sometimes foolish—adventure, and spiritual balm for a world suffering from widespread disconnection from nature, Forest Time is equal parts personal, educational, and existential. Lloyd’s stories about his work as an educator at an overnight nature center are filled with humility and conviction, examining his relationships to the forests, mountains, and rivers he calls home.
Wrestling with the intersections between the wild natural landscape, high-volume tourism, and the national park system, Lloyd’s explorations are born from his extensive experience and personal relationship with the park. His voice and candor are as refreshing and distinctive as the natural environment he writes about, reminding readers that the mountains are not only national treasures but also a remedy for modernity’s errors and a cultural malaise fixated on material gain and ultimate safety and comfort. Vulnerable, hilarious, and widely accessible, Forest Time fits appropriately on shelves beside the works of Edward Abbey, Annie Dillard, and Kevin Fedarko.
Jeremy Lloyd is the author of Forest Time: Footnotes to an Outdoor Education (University of Tennessee Press, 2026). His work has appeared in Sierra, Gray’s Sporting Journal, High Country News, North Carolina Literary Review, The Sun, Northern Appalachia Review, Saturday Evening Post, and several anthologies. He is a graduate of Calvin University (BA) and the University of North Carolina at Greensboro (MFA). For over twenty years, he has taught on the faculty of Great Smoky Mountains Institute at Tremont, where he directs the Southern Appalachian Naturalist Certification Program, co-directs the Tremont Writers Conference, and accompanies people aged nine to ninety into the woods. He lives with his wife and son in Walland, Tennessee.
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