The Birds That Audubon Missed: In-Person Program with Kenn Kaufman
Schedule
Sat Apr 12 2025 at 01:00 pm to 02:00 pm
UTC-04:00Location
311 Curtis Street exd, Jamestown, NY, United States, New York 14701 | Jamestown, NY
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Join us April 12, from 1-2 pm, for an afternoon reading of The Birds That Audubon Missed by Kenn Kaufman, read by the author himself at the Roger Tory Peterson Institute.
Kenn’s newest book weaves threads of battling ambitions and egos—theft! Plagiarism! Fraud! All these and more made up the study of birds in the early 1800s, as the titans of this science fought to be the ones to discover the birds scientists had not yet laid name to. The book has been called a “blend of history, science, art, biography, and memoir” (Booklist, starred review) that is “a bird lovers’ delight” (Kirkus Reviews).
Inspired by Roger Tory Peterson and James Fisher’s 1955 book Wild America, Kenn Kaufman dropped out of high school and hit the road, hitching back and forth across America, from Alaska to Florida, Maine to Mexico. He never looked back and has been writing about and identifying birds ever since. In addition to serving as guest juror for our 2025 exhibition Art that Matters to the Planet: Wild America, Kenn will be in Jamestown to do a reading of his newest book, The Birds That Audubon Missed.
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311 Curtis Street exd, Jamestown, NY, United States, New York 14701Event Location & Nearby Stays:
