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Revisiting Terry Tempest Williams' "The Hour Of Land" on Thursday's Access Utah

The acclaimed author of “Refuge” and “When Women Were Birds” and many others is one of the most thought provoking and articulate people you’ll meet and an hour with her is unfailingly interesting.

Terry Tempest Williams’ new book is  "The Hour of Land: A Personal Topography of America’s National Parks." Here’s how the publisher describes it: The Hour of Land is “a literary celebration of our national parks, an exploration of what they mean to us and what we mean to them. From the Grand Tetons in Wyoming to Acadia in Maine to Big Bend in Texas and more, Williams creates a series of lyrical portraits that illuminate the unique grandeur of each place while delving into what it means to shape a landscape with its own evolutionary history into something of our own making. Part memoir, part natural history, and part social critique, The Hour of Land is a meditation and a manifesto on why wild lands matter to the soul of America.”

You’ll have a chance to join the conversation by calling 1-800-826-1495 between 9:00 a.m. and 10:00 a.m. on Wednesday, or by emailing us at upraccess@gmail.com .  We’re also on Twitter @upraccess and Facebook.
 
 

 

Tom Williams worked as a part-time UPR announcer for a few years and joined Utah Public Radio full-time in 1996. He is a proud graduate of Uintah High School in Vernal and Utah State University (B. A. in Liberal Arts and Master of Business Administration.) He grew up in a family that regularly discussed everything from opera to religion to politics. He is interested in just about everything and loves to engage people in conversation, so you could say he has found the perfect job as host “Access Utah.” He and his wife Becky, live in Logan.