Join us for a talk with Ted Levin and Erin Donahue, of Daybreak fame for their weekly trail cam feature! Attend in person in the Mayer Room or register here for the Zoom invitation.

Come celebrate the wildlife that live in our woods, and learn about the natural history of their behaviors as they go about their lives smelling, marking, finding mates, building nests and covering territory. Erin and Ted will talk about this process, which has become a regular feature in Daybreak. Ted will also share some passages from his new book, Promise of Sunrise.

Erin Donahue, of East Thetford, has been a psychotherapist for forty years, and a wildlife photographer for the last twenty. She has traveled widely to remote areas of the world by plane, foot and canoe, both of which have taught her to lean into life with presence and see more deeply.  

Ted Levin writes: As a lifelong naturalist and Yankee fan, I follow a trail blazed by John Burroughs and John Muir, neither of whom paid much attention to baseball. My work has appeared in Audubon, Sierra, Sports Illustrated, National Wildlife, OnEarth, National Geographic Traveler, National Geographic Books, Yankee, The New York Times, Newsday, The Boston Globe, The Chicago Sun-Times, The Guardian, and The Daily Telegraph, among other publications and anthologies. I wrote a weekly column for the Valley News (1981 - 1992), called "Ted Levin Naturally," and from 1997 through 2019, I was a regular commentator on Vermont Public Radio, and occasionally on NPR. I am the author of Backtracking: The Way of a Naturalist (1987), Blood Brook: A Naturalist's Home Ground (1992), and Liquid Land: A Journey Through the Florida Everglades (2003), among other works of nonfiction. I received the Burroughs Medal in 2004, the highest literary honor awarded to an American nature writer. E. O. Wilson called America's Snake: The Rise and Fall of the Timber Rattlesnake (2016) a beautifully written book [that] demonstrates just how good nature literature can be. United States Senator, Vermont, Peter Welch, wrote The Promise of Sunrise (2025) "shows the joy and expansive power of quiet observation to enrich our world and trans[port us well beyond the horizon of our vision, and to reconnect us to those we lost but still hold dear."