"The Mountains Talk Among Themselves While We Sleep": A Lifelong Devotion to New Hampshire's White Mountains with Timothy Muskat

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Mixed Online/In-Person

Museum of the White Mountains
34 Highland St
Plymouth, NH 03264
United States


Timothy Muskat will be reading from his new book, "Leaving the Low Country: Poems of Mountains and of Need." His presentation will include a slideshow of a few of the tens of thousands of photographs he has taken over the course of his six decades in and around the White Mountains, as well as a smattering of prose excerpts he calls "prefaces." Tim's work last appeared at the Museum in the fall of 2019, as part of a full-scale exhibit in collaborations with the artist Kathryn Field. 

Tim Muskat headshot

Tinkerer, scholar, poet, essayist, father, househusband, baseball player, mountaineer and former marathon
runner Timothy Muskat has worked as a tree surgeon, emu keeper, college English professor (Victorian and
Romantic periods), backwoods guide, shoe factory novice, stone wall builder, and autodidactic designer of modest
backyard landscapes with an emphasis on perennial berms. He holds undergraduate and graduate degrees from
Cornell University and an MFA from the University of Montana. His more recent experiences include a sevenyear
stint teaching poetry to inmates at the Belknap County Department of Corrections in Laconia, NH, and a
going-on-nine-years-now battle cum truce with a lymphoma with an oddly melodic name. The author of five
books of poetry and numerous essays on a wide variety of subjects, his latest collection is titled, Leaving the Low
Country: Poems of Mountains and of Need — the culmination of six years of collaborative endeavor with, first, the
artist Kathryn Field, and, in the last two years, the painters Mary Graham and Alec Richardson, and the
photographer Deborah Dawson. For the past twenty-five years he has resided in Center Sandwich, NH, with his
wife, Carla, and an assortment of beefy Chocolate Labs. Tim has climbed Mt. Washington 437 times in every
season and all sorts of weather.

This is a hybrid event. To receive a Zoom link, please register HERE. 

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