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Sessions were held on racism, climate change, how to invest, the Bald Eagle, women leaders of the Civil Rights movement, the Mexican revolution, and there wasHistorians and poets were bookended by sessions that delved into civics and media literacy, including a talk called “Know Your Rights” on how to navigate an online constitution annotated with Supreme Court decisions, and a session titled “Who Do You Trust?: Conspiracies in America.
Actor Nick Offerman, who played the outdoorsman-slash-office manager Ron Swanson on “Parks and Recreation,” took questions onstage from a U.S. Park Ranger about his new book, “Where the Deer and the Antelope Play: The Pastoral Observations of One Ignorant American Who Loves to Walk Outside.”“We greedily destroy what we think we don’t need, only to discover we could have used that knowledge,” he said, to applause.
Afterward, Offerman autographed books and then got the C-SPAN treatment, appearing on Book-TV on a set in the middle of the festival. “If we don’t get depressed,” added Elisabeth Staal, 28, as she and Hornung waited in line for an autograph.