Marguerite Holloway
Schedule
Wed Apr 22 2026 at 06:30 pm to 07:30 pm
UTC-04:00Location
An Unlikely Story | Plainville, MA
About this Event
Join us for an evening with Columbia University professor Marguerite Holloway to celebrate the release of her new book, Take to the Trees: A Story of Hope, Science, and Self-Discovery in America's Imperiled Forests!
One of Heatmap's Climate Books to Read in 2025, Take to the Trees is an empowering journey into the overstory with the arborists and forest experts safeguarding our iconic trees. Perfect for fans of Richard Powers' The Overstory!
Ticket options for this event include:
- General Admission + Book: $30.80, admits one guest. This ticket comes with a copy of Take to the Trees, which Marguerite will sign at the event.
- General Admission + Coupon: $5, admits one guest. The cost of this ticket may be redeemed towards Marguerite's book on the night of the event.
We strive to host inclusive, accessible events that enable all individuals to engage fully. To request an accommodation or for inquiries about accessibility, please reach out to [email protected].
Ticket holders who purchased a book-included ticket and are unable to attend the event will be able to pick up their book at An Unlikely Story up to 30 days following the event.
About the book:
Journalist Marguerite Holloway arrives at the Women’s Tree Climbing Workshop as a climbing novice, but with a passion for trees and a deep concern about their future. Run by twin sister tree doctors Bear LeVangie and Melissa LeVangie Ingersoll, the workshop helps people—from everyday tree lovers to women arborists working in a largely male industry—develop impressive technical skills and ascend into the canopy. As Holloway tackles unfamiliar equipment and dizzying heights, she learns about the science of trees and tells the stories of charismatic species, including hemlock, aspen, Atlantic white cedar, oak, and beech. She spotlights experts who are chronicling the great dying that is underway in forests around the world as trees face simultaneous and accelerating threats from drought, heat, floods, disease, and other disruptions.
As she climbs, Holloway also comes to understand the profound significance of trees in her relationship with her late mother and brother. The book’s rousing final chapter offers something new: a grander environmental and arboreal optimism, in which the story of trees and their resilience meshes with that of people working to steward the forests of the future, and of community found among fellow tree climbers. A lyrical work of memoir and reportage, Take to the Trees sounds the alarm about rapid arboreal decline while also offering hope about how we might care for our forests and ourselves.
About the author:
Marguerite Holloway is a professor at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism and has written for the New York Times and the New Yorker, among other publications. She is the author of The Measure of Manhattan and lives in New York.
Where is it happening?
An Unlikely Story, 111 South Street, Plainville, United StatesEvent Location & Nearby Stays:
USD 6.24 to USD 33.33
