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A new museum
exhibit and book span the continent in autumn colors.
Gold.
Crimson. More varieties of brown than you thought possible. But
also astonishing shades of blue, gray and green. The palette of
autumn fills Fall Colors Across North America, a book and
a new exhibit at the Carnegie Museum of Natural History that will
travel almost as much as Clarion County's Anthony E. Cook did in
creating both.
"Day
after day for four autumns, in sun, wind, snow and rain, I trekked
for over 200,000 miles across North America," writes the naturalist/photographer.
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"My
daily sojourns took me through remote areas of the Alaska tundra
and the rugged Canadian territories and across the United States,
working between the 70- to 30-degree north latitude belt, where
fall colors emblazon the temperate deciduous forests."
Cook
earlier splashed onto the nature scene as author and photographer
of "The Cook Forest: An Island in Time" (Falcon Press,
1997). The past, present and future of the nature preserve created
by his grandfather Anthony Wayne Cook remains among his major interests.
The
first such extensive book of its theme, "Fall Colors Across
North America" ($39.95, Graphic Arts Center Publishing Co.,
110 color photographs) includes a foreword by nature photographer
Art Wolfe and an essay by Ann Zwinger, multi-award-winning author
and naturalist.
The
exhibit runs through Jan. 6 at the Carnegie, then travels to museums
in Los Angeles, Cleveland, the Royal Ontario Museum of Natural History
in Canada, and the American Museum of Natural History in New York
in 2004. A related book, "Fall Colors Across North America:
The Museum Collection," accompanies the exhibit.
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Michelle Pilecki
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