communities worldwide to combine a knowledge of earth sciences with the 
     
     force of spiritual values. 
     
    

    
     June 4 - 11: The Environment Week program will be featured in local newspapers. 
     
     Have you planned any of your own activities? Are you going to help with 
     
     the beach cleanup? 
     
    

    
     June 8 - 10: Should you be in the Fredericton, N.B. area, the Fredericton 
     
     Nature Club is hosting the Annual Meeting of the New Brunswick Federation 
     
     of Naturalists. They have an exciting program of walks and river tours 
     
     arranged. Contact the Fredericton Nature Club at P.0. Box 772, Station A, 
     
     Fredericton, N.B. E33 584. 
     
    
   
   
    
     THE BONSHAW HILLS 
     
     by In his review of this book in the November 
     
    

    
     Ian MacQuarrie [A 4th issue of the Chronicle-Herald, Mr. Harry 
     
    

    
     illustrated by 1 ‘.l‘ Bruce wrote that: l'Good books by amateurs 
     
    

    
     P. John Burden . C. bolster the repulsive notion that anyone can be 
     
    

    
     . a writer  What's even worse is discovering 
     
     that a complete nobody - a nobody being anyone 
     
     I’ve never heard of - has come out with a 
     
     superb piece of writing. 
     
    

    
     That's what Ian MacQuarrie has done, and I wish he'd stuck to his real 
     
     job. He's a biology professor at the University of Prince Edward Island, and 
     
     that too is annoying. It disproves my cherished theory that all science writers 
     
     are rotten writers. MacQuarrie's book, The Bonshaw Hills, is only 75 pages 
     
     long. It's illustrated by island artist P. John Burden, and published by the 
     
     University's Institute of Island Studies. The book consists of 25 essays, in 
     
     which MacQuarrie weaves together memory and myth, science and weird humor, love 
     
     of the land and its creatures, and a sense of the profoundly spooky." 
     
    

    
     The following excerpts from the book will give the reader a small taste of 
     
     its flavour. The essay "Green World" opens with “Come with me down the valley 
     
     and I will show you at least thirteen shades of green, and more as the seasons 
     
     change. There is the pale softness of the young tamarack; see how different it 
     
     is from the dark nightshade along the stone dyke. Oak-green is rare, and 
     
     different from birch-green. Even the spruces with their casual sex lives show 
     
     true colours here; the black is more blue that the white, if you follow me." 
     
    

    
     The following paragraph is from "Crows": 
     
    

    
     "In the fall flocking season, thousands of crows will roost 
     
    

    
     together each night. They fly in to staging area, then in deep 
     
    

    
     dusk they slip away to the real overnight roost. They move 
     
    

    
     silently now.. with a high wind and eerie light the effect is 
     
    

    
     magnificent - thousands of quiet, black, soaring and diving birds 
     
    

    
     with a common purpose. It is no wonder that crows figure 
     
    

    
     prominently in tales of witchcraft and evil." 
     
     and, from the essay “Todd Hollow", this excerpt: 
     
    

    
     "Todd Hollow at night gains an extra dimension; it is 
     
    

    
     difficult not to remember Jack's ghost stories. If you are lucky 
     
    

    
     you may see a ghostly hunting owl, and certainly bats will flit 
     
    

    
     overhead, making their own unknown journeys" 
     
    

    
     Intrigued? I hope so. This book is available in most local bookstore for under 
     
     ten dollars.