Join MAWDC for our October Monthly Meeting! Mark your calendar!
The meeting will be held via Zoom (link below). MAWDC President Elizabeth Hargrave will kick things off with updates on club activities and fungi in the news. Culinary Chair April Thompson will share eye candy and showcase MAWDC’s work with edible mushrooms on The Kitchen Table. Send her your pics at culinary@mawdc.org. Foray Chair Mitch Fournet will lead the virtual ID table, highlighting recent fungal finds sent in by our members. You can send your pics to Mitch at forays@mawdc.org.
For our feature presentation, we are excited to welcome David Rose to give a talk, “Archival Reconnaissance and the History of Mycology.” Amateur mycology in the U.S. developed in the 1890s in response to alarms about toxic fungi just as the fascination with mushrooms peaked as a part of organized nature study. In the 1960s, the psychedelic counter-culture paired with composer John Cage’s interest in mushroom hunting and mycophagy to nudge awareness of fungi toward the mainstream. This history is replete with quirky scientists, obsessive taxonomists, spectacular mushrooms, and crazy politics at the intersection of art and science. The archival collections that support the documentation of this history will be explored in detail.
David Rose is Archivist of the New Rochelle Public Library in New Rochelle, NY. He holds a Master’s degree in Anthropology from the New School for Social Research. As archivist he has organized the papers and records of mycologists and botanists of the New York Botanical Garden and the archival records of the North American Mycological Association. David is past president of the Connecticut-Westchester Mycological Association and contributing editor to the journal Fungi. His column “Notes from Underground” in Fungi focuses on the history of mycology; the exploration of mushrooms in cinema, science fiction, ethnopoetics, and popular culture; and biographical portraits of musical composer John Cage, Johns Hopkins surgeon Howard Atwood Kelly, and mycologist Roland Thaxter.
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