Tannery Pond Center presents our Tannery Talk: Theodore Roosevelt: A Cowboy’s Ride to the White House Film
Bill McKibben and Glenn Pearsall will precede the movie with a 20-minute discussion on TR as our Greatest Conservation President.
Sunday, September 13 | 2 PM
Suggested donation at the door: $10
Parking: As there is significant construction in the lot behind the town hall building, that lot is unavailable for parking. You may park in the “library/town hall” lot, along Main Street north of the intersection of Main Street/28N. On 28N, you may park on either side of the road so long as you are not in the street and pulled off on the shoulder of the road. You may also park in the grass lot on the corner of Main Street/28N - this is private property, but we have temporary permission to use this lot.
Theodore Roosevelt: A Cowboy's Ride to the White House is the exciting story of a physically challenged young man from Harvard who came to the western frontier in 1883. Theodore Roosevelt bought a ranch, learned how to ride, shoot, and hunt, and acquired the skills that would make him a war hero and American President. In the Badlands of Dakota, young Roosevelt became a cowboy and learned about democracy and the American West.
Filmed on location at the Roosevelt ranches in the heart of the beautiful and wild Badlands of North Dakota, the growing-of-age life experiences of the nation's 26th President are brought to life by nationally acclaimed historians H.W. Brands, Douglas Brinkley, Clay Jenkinson, and great-grandson Tweed Roosevelt. Henry William Brands is the author of 22 books and a professor at the University of Texas in Austin. Among his works: TR: The Last Romantic. Douglas Brinkley is an award-winning author and a professor of history at Tulane University. He has also served as a director of the Theodore Roosevelt Center for American Civilization and is a commentator for CBS News. Clay S. Jenkinson is an American Humanities and Rhodes Scholar and noted author. A Jefferson and Theodore Roosevelt scholar, Jenkinson often reenacts both. He is also the Chief Consultant to The Theodore Roosevelt Center at Dickinson State University. Tweed Roosevelt is the great-grandson of President Theodore Roosevelt. He is the Chairman of Roosevelt China Investments of Boston. Roosevelt, like his great-grandfather, a Harvard graduate, frequently contributes to books, seminars, and other historical projects about President Theodore Roosevelt.
This Tannery Talk is made possible, in part, by Adirondack Foundation’s Generous Acts grant.
Bill McKibben
Bill McKibben is founder of Third Act, which organizes people over the age of 60 for action on climate and justice.
His 1989 book The End of Nature is regarded as the first book for a general audience about climate change, and has appeared in 24 languages. He’s gone on to write 20 books, and his work appears regularly in periodicals from the New Yorker to Rolling Stone.
He serves as the Schumann Distinguished Scholar in Environmental Studies at Middlebury College, as a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and he has won the Gandhi Peace Prize as well as honorary degrees from 20 colleges and universities. He was awarded the Right Livelihood Award, sometimes called the alternative Nobel, in the Swedish Parliament. Foreign Policy named him to its inaugural list of the world’s 100 most important global thinkers.
McKibben helped found 350.org, the first global grassroots climate campaign, which has organized protests on every continent, including Antarctica, for climate action. He played a leading role in launching the opposition to big oil pipeline projects like Keystone XL, and the fossil fuel divestment campaign, which has become the biggest anti-corporate campaign in history, with endowments worth more than $40 trillion stepping back from oil, gas and coal. He stepped down as board chair of 350 in 2015, and left the board and stepped down from his volunteer role as senior adviser in 2020, accepting emeritus status. He lives in the mountains above Lake Champlain with his wife, the writer Sue Halpern, where he spends as much time as possible outdoors. In 2014, biologists credited his career by naming a new species of woodland gnat—Megophthalmidia mckibbeni–in his honor.
Glenn Pearsall
Glenn is a long time resident of Johnsburg and is well known to many here in Johnsburg and throughout the Adirondacks. In 2000, Glenn and his wife Carol created and funded a private foundation dedicated to improving the lives of year round residents of the Adirondack Park. Those of us at Tannery Pond are particular appreciative of their support over the years.
While pursuing a successful career as stock market portfolio manager, Glenn also pursued an interest in local history.
His first book, Echoes in These Mountains, tells the story behind 55 historic sites in Johnsburg and has gone into a second printing.
His When Men and Mountains Meet has become an authoritative sources of the Adirondacks after the American Revolution when the region was largely unexplored and ripe for commercial ventures.
And his Civil War novel, Leaves Torn Asunder was produced by Robin Jay and the Gem Radio Players as a radio play on the Tannery Pond stage on September 16, 2024.
Glenn has also written articles on Adirondack History for the Adirondack Almanac and his research on Mathew Brady of Johnsburg has been published in newspapers nationally, including the New York Times.