WHEELING — The Ohio County Public Library’s subsequent Lunch With Books program will deal with “Extinction and the Human: 4 American Encounters” with writer Timothy Candy.
This system will happen at midday on Tuesday, Nov. 28, on the library in downtown Wheeling.
The Americas have been the location of two distinct waves of human migration, every related to human-caused extinctions. The primary occurred through the late Pleistocene period, some 10,000 to 30,000 years in the past. The opposite started through the time of European settler-colonization and continues to this present day.
In “Extinction and the Human,” Candy ponders the realities of animal extinction and endangerment, and the usually divergent Native American and Euro-American narratives that encompass them. He focuses particularly on the power of human influence on megafauna — mammoths, whales and the North American bison — starting with the moments that these species’ extinction or endangerment started to generate important print archives: transcriptions of conventional Indigenous oral narratives, historic and scientific accounts, and literary narratives by Indigenous American and Euro-American authors.
This program would be the library’s final in a sequence devoted to Nationwide Native American Heritage Month.
