2006-2007 Speakers Bureau Catalog
MIKE IRWIN, Chautauqua Character
Mike Irwin has taught English, journalism, and a theatre performance workshop at Madison Area Technical College, and produced two original plays. Each March he reads Aldo Leopold's words before a wide audience as part of a Lodi Reads Leopold community project. In March 2005 Mike performed The Last Radio Show during Lodi's Leopold weekend.
Address: 7909 Crystal Lake Rd., Lodi, WI 53555
Phone: 608-592-5672
Aldo Leopold: The Last Radio Show
Though born in Iowa in 1887, this far-ranging writer and thinker is today, above all, Wisconsin's adopted and beloved spokesman for our state's natural world. Among the earliest graduates of Yale's new School of Forestry, Aldo Leopold helped establish the University of Wisconsin-Madison's Department of Wildlife Management. His poetic, droll reflections were passed down in
A Sand County Almanac and other essays full of lasting lyric beauty, wit, and vision. In Irwin's dramatic performance, audiences meet Leopold near the end of his life as the professor speaks before his WHA College of the Air audience one last time. By this time, Leopold is the evolved, complete man, lover of nature, science, humanism, and "a citizen of the land."
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