CURRENTLY READING
A Sand County Almanac by Aldo Leopold
Monday, March 3 through Friday, March 7, 2025
Read by Jim Fleming
In Celebration Of Aldo Leopold Day on March 1st! Many credit ASCA with launching a revolution in land management. Written as a series of sketches based principally upon the flora and fauna in a rural part of Wisconsin, the book gathers informal pieces written by Leopold over a forty-year period as he traveled through the woodlands of Wisconsin.
THEME: Charles Tomlinson Griffes: Poem; Stephanie Jutt, flute; Randall Hodgkinson, piano (GM Recordings GM 2026 CD)
(Oxford; ISBN: 019505928X)
Tune in to the Larry Meiller Show on Wednesday, March 5 at 12:30 pm when Larry is joined by the Executive Director and President of the Aldo Leopold Foundation.
Readings are archived for just one week after their broadcast due to publisher 
copyright restrictions.
Latest Episodes
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A Sand County Almanac 2 of 5 – March, April, May
The return of the geese allows Leopold to further expand the concept of “ecosystem” to one that spans a continent. April brings high water, the blooming of the Draba flower, […]
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A Sand County Almanac 1 of 5 – Introduction, January, February
Leopold briefly lays out his philosophy on nature conservation. We hear his observations on the natural world during a January thaw. February sees the felling of a “good oak.”
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Notes Of A Native Son 12 of 12 – Stranger In The Village
Baldwin travels from Paris to a small and remote village in Switzerland where he gets the impression that he is the first Black man the residents have ever seen.
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Notes Of A Native Son 11 of 12 – Equal In Paris Pt. 2
While in jail in Paris, Baldwin’s understanding of himself as a Black man in America is sharpened and further defined as he attempts to negotiate a culture and legal system […]
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Notes Of A Native Son 10 of 12 – Equal In Paris Pt. 1
While living in Paris, Baldwin felt he was liberated from the racial and sexual oppression he found in the States. But that freedom was also a cause for concern when […]
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Coming Next
Paris 1944 by Patrick Bishop
monday, march 10 through friday, march 21, 2025
Read by Norman Gilliland
The liberation of Paris on August 25, 1944 was the biggest party of the century: champagne flowed freely, total strangers embraced—it was a celebration of life renewed against the backdrop of the world’s favorite city, as experienced by the likes of Ernest Hemingway and J. D. Salinger. But there was nothing preordained about this happy ending. Had things transpired differently, Paris might have gone down as a ghastly monument to Nazi nihilism.
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