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PRINCETON: Noreworthy: Path of nature, path of poems

    The D&R Greenway Land Trust invites the public to walk the Scott and Hella McVay Poetry Trail at Greenway Meadows Park, Princeton, with Joseph Bruchac, celebrated Native American poet, storyteller, and author of numerous books, at 4:30 p.m. on Friday, April 15.  The walk will be followed by a reception and book sale and signing at 6 p.m. at D&R Greenway’s Johnson Education Center and by a reading at 7 p.m.
    All events are free and open to the public. Call 609-924-4646 to register.
    Born in 1942, Joseph Bruchac is the author of more than 70 books for children and adults relating to the Indigenous peoples of the Americas, with a particular focus on northeastern Native American and Anglo-American lives and folklore. He has published works of poetry, novels, and short stories. He is from Saratoga Springs, New York, and is of Abenaki, English, and Slovak ethnicities. He is renowned for his storytelling ability and for his skill at playing traditional Native American instruments.
    Mr. Bruchac is a co- founder of Greenfield Review Press and the Native Arts Circle. His honors include a Rockefeller Humanities Fellowship, a National Endowment for the Arts’ Writing Fellowship for Poetry, and the 1999 Lifetime Achievement Award from the Native Writers Circle of the Americas.
— Michael Redmond