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Books and Brews

  • WMRA’s October 2023 Books & Brews featured Jennifer Ackerman discussing her books, What an Owl Knows, The Bird Way, and The Genius of Birds, at Seven Arrows Brewing in Waynesboro.
  • Cara Achterberg, who has fostered over two-hundred dogs, encourages everyone to visit a shelter. She is our speaker for Books & Brews on Tuesday, September 12.
  • WMRA’s September 2023 Books & Brews will featured Cara Achterburg discussing her book One Hundred Dogs and Counting: One Woman, Ten Thousand Miles, and A Journey into the Heart of Shelters and Rescues.
  • WMRA is pleased to introduce Micro Books and Brews - a new offshoot of our Books & Brews series featuring some of our past guests.
  • There’s a new term being used to describe the feeling of sadness one feels about the world changing. It’s call solastalgia. Paul Bogard, associate professor of English at Hamline University in Saint Paul, has compiled a book of essays about the word and why so many people are feeling it these days. He’s our speaker for Books & Brews on Tuesday, April 11, 2023, at Pale Fire Brewing in Harrisonburg. WMRA’s Chris Boros asked Paul to describe the word.
  • WMRA’s April 2023 Books & Brews featured Paul Bogard, Erica Cavanagh, and Lauren Alleyne, discussing Solastalgia: An Anthology of Emotion in a Disappearing World.
  • Imagine sitting at home on your porch enjoying a nice summer day only to discover hog waste being sprayed on the roof of your house. That’s what happened to Elsie Herring when large scale industrial hog farming operations sprayed pig waste into the air as a way to get rid of it. The community fought back against the industrial farmers and won. That’s the story of Virginia author Corban Addison’s book “Wastelands.” He’s our speaker for Books & Brews at Pale Fire Brewing in Harrisonburg on Tuesday, March 14, 2023.
  • WMRA’s March 2023 Books & Brews featured Corban Addison, discussing his book, Wastelands: The True Story of Farm Country on Trial.
  • WMRA’s February 2023 Books & Brews features Dr. Bruce Greyson, discussing his book, "After: A Doctor Explores What Near-Death Experiences Reveal about Life and Beyond."
  • Dr. Bruce Greyson, the world's leading expert on near-death experiences reveals his journey toward rethinking the nature of death, life, and the continuation of consciousness at WMRA's Books & Brews at Pale Fire Brewing in Harrisonburg. WMRA’s Chris Boros spoke with Dr. Greyson and asked him to talk about his belief system before his research into life after death.