Date/Time
Date(s) - 12/03/2021
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Location
Campus Martius Museum
Reservations Required.
Cost: FREE Program
Guest Speaker: Julie Zickefoose
Topic: Saving Jemima: Life and Love with a Hard-Luck Jay
Join us for Brown Baggin’ as we learn from Julie Zickefoose about what it is like to let a wild bird into your life and your heart.
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turalist/artist/writer Julie Zickefoose thinks of herself as an unsung, minor, rather dirty superhero. Her superpower: saving small, economically worthless wildlife that would otherwise die. An orphaned jay named Jemima was one such foundling. Spending nearly a year healing, studying and raising the young blue jay for release opened the door to their world for Julie. She began writing and illustrating Saving Jemima: Life and Love With a Hard-luck Jay immediately upon becoming her foster mother. More than a wildlife rehab story, it’s the story of life, love and dealing with great loss; of finding grace and redemption in bonding with a wild bird.
Julie Zickefoose Bio 
Julie Zickefoose lives and works quietly on an 80-acre wildlife sanctuary in the back country of Whipple, Ohio. She is a prolific writer and painter and Contributing Editor to Bird Watcher’s Digest. Natural Gardening for Birds, Letters from Eden, The Bluebird Effect, and Baby Birds: An Artist Looks Into the Nest are joined by Saving Jemima: Life and Love With a Hard-Luck Jay, the intimate story of how an orphaned bird can save a soul.
This program is free thanks to the generous support of the Washington County Public Library.