March 19, 1996

Release No. 347 Contact: Rick Denison 207-786-6330 (office) 207-998-4837 (home)

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Writer to Deliver Muskie Lecture

LEWISTON, Maine -- Author Bill McKibben, whose books include the best-seller "The End of Nature," will present the annual Edmund S. Muskie Environmental Lecture at 7:30 p.m. March 28 in the Muskie Archives at Bates College.

McKibben's talk, "Hope, Fear and the History of the Next 50 Years: An Environmentalist's Perspective," is open to the public at no charge.

Formerly a staff writer for The New Yorker, McKibben also is the author of the books "Hope, Human and Wild" and "The Age of Missing Information." He edited or co-authored the volumes "Birch Browsings: A John Burroughs Reader" and "Twenty-Five Bike Tours in the Adirondacks."

His articles have appeared in such magazines as the Atlantic Monthly, Rolling Stone, Esquire and Outside. He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1993.

The annual Muskie Lecture at Bates is a tribute to Edmund S. Muskie, a 1936 Bates graduate who in his 22 years in the U.S. Senate sponsored landmark environmental legislation.

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