On February 20, 2015, author and visual artist Teresa Jordan will read from her new book at the Springdale Canyon Community Center at 7pm. Admission is Free.
Inspired by Benjamin Franklin’s “arduous project of arriving at moral perfection,” Teresa Jordan spent a year exploring the ways in which virtue and vice play out in everyday life, an extended meditation that resulted in her just-released book, The Year of Living Virtuously (Weekends Off). In this talk, she will share some of what she learned, weaving stories from her own rural upbringing with those of characters as diverse as Benjamin Franklin and Shakespears’s King Lear, and drawing as well on insights from theologians, scholars, philosophers, and scientists within the emerging field of consciousness studies.
Teresa Jordan grew up in a house full of books on an isolated ranch in Wyoming where the love of learning she acquired in the local one-room school carried her to Yale and into a lifetime of inquiry. Her work includes the memoir Riding the White Horse Home and Cowgirls: Women of the American West, one of the earliest books to give voice to contemporary women working on the land. With her husband, folklorist and musician Hal Cannon, she created “The Open Road,” a series of radio features for Public Radio International’s The Savvy Traveler. Her newest book is The Year of Living Virtuously (Weekends Off), a series of meditations inspired by Benjamin Franklin’s list of thirteen virtues and the seven deadly sins. She is also a visual artist, and her work is featured on the cover of the book and as illustrations throughout.
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This event has received funding from the Utah Humanities Council. The Utah Humanities Council promotes history and heritage, literature and literacy, and public discussion of issues important to our communities. Any views, findings, conclusions, or recommendations expressed in this website or the lectures do not necessarily represent those of the Utah Humanities Council or the National Endowment for the Humanities. |
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This project is supported by Utah Arts and Museums, with funding from the State of Utah and the National Endowment for the Arts . |
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Thank you to the Town of Springdale and the Canyon Community Center for supporting this event |
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Support for this event provided by The National Endowment for the Arts - Art Works |
On February 20, 2015, author and visual artist Teresa Jordan will read from her new book at the Springdale Canyon Community Center at 7pm. Admission is Free.
Teresa Jordan grew up in a house full of books on an isolated ranch in Wyoming where the love of learning she acquired in the local one-room school carried her to Yale and into a lifetime of inquiry. Her work includes the memoir Riding the White Horse Home and Cowgirls: Women of the American West, one of the earliest books to give voice to contemporary women working on the land. With her husband, folklorist and musician Hal Cannon, she created “The Open Road,” a series of radio features for Public Radio International’s The Savvy Traveler. Her newest book is The Year of Living Virtuously (Weekends Off), a series of meditations inspired by Benjamin Franklin’s list of thirteen virtues and the seven deadly sins. She is also a visual artist, and her work is featured on the cover of the book and as illustrations throughout.