Local author and historian Bill Birns will be at the Andes Public Library, 242 Main Street, Andes, Thursday, Oct. 20 at 5 p.m., to give readings from the reissue of The Catskill Catalog. Originally published as a column in the Catskill Mountain News, it explores Catskill Mountain life and culture across many generations.
Birns was named one of 50 Stewards of the Catskills by the Catskill Center for Conservation and Development on the center’s 50th birthday.
Burns holds a Ph.D. in rhetoric and linguistics from Indiana University of Pennsylvania. His 1986 dissertation was a study of the dialect of the Catskills.
He is the author of A Catskill Catalog, I Was Corning a Beaver Like You Do: Joe Hewitt, John Burroughs, Mountain Culture, and two books of locally-focused verse: The Myth in the Mountain and Fleischmanns in Verse.
The library is located at. Light refreshments will be served. For more information, call 845-676-3333 or email an.ill@4cls.org.
