Author Talk: Nancy Elle Smith, October 15 from 5:30 to 6:30 pm
Please join us for a free Author Talk co-sponsored by the Norfolk Library, Aton Forest and the Norfolk Nature Alliance. Register Norfolk Library link
Nancy Elle Smith will speak about her 2026 book Downwind, The Wild Pulse of the Berkshires. The book explores the secret, often humorous lives of wild creatures (such as coyotes, moose, bobcats, and bears), using motion-activated trail cameras, personal field observations, and research. .
“After years of conservation work through the Sheffield Land Trust and Sweet Water Trust, which helped protect huge tracts of natural land in the northeast, Nancy Smith decided to document the wild creatures in her own backyard… The book is beautifully composed with photography, humor, and astonishing detail. Like banners in the breeze, each chapter alerts us to the primal pull of the wild, for it is here that our brains, blitzed out by electronic messaging, can find some calm.” Berkshire Edge
Aton Forest Inc. is a dual-purpose 501c3 organization: we are an Ecosystem Field Station and we are Norfolk’s Natural Area land trust, with the 1500-acre Egler Natural Area and the 965-acre Spaulding Pond Mini-Wilderness.This year we are celebrating our Centennial and our 2026 acquisition of the Spaulding Pond Preserve, the creation of Happy Kitchel Egler.