In her award-winning book The Narrow Edge: A Tiny Bird, An Ancient Crab, and an Epic Journey, Deborah Cramer accompanies small sandpipers - Red Knots - on their extraordinary migration between the southern tip of South America and their Arctic nesting grounds.  Both the knots and the horseshoe crabs whose tiny eggs fuel the birds’ extraordinary migration appear on the South Shore, and ornithologists living and working here have brought this inspiring story to light.  

The Narrow Edge received the 2016 Rachel Carson Book Award from the Society of Environmental Journalists, and the 2016 Best Book Award from the National Academies of Science.

Join Deborah at the Spire Theater on September 27, 2017 to follow the inspiring journey of the birds, and to explore how the lives of shorebirds, horseshoe crabs and humans are intertwined.  Book signing to follow.

Cramer’s appearance is free courtesy of the sponsorship of three local environmental organizations: The Living Observatory, The Herring Pond Watershed Association, and the Southeastern Massachusetts Pine Barrens Alliance.