One review of author Andrew Vietze’s fascinating work describes eastern white pine as “the Forrest Gump of tree species.” Used in various forms throughout American history, from a scurvy preventative among the Algonquin, to the ship’s masts of eighteenth century British and French navies, to Christmas trees in our households today, the eastern white pine is one of the most ubiquitously American tree species. It also played a vital role in the history of pre-colonial and early colonial America, and was often at the center of England and France’s colonization and conflicts in New England.

Join us for a Zoom lecture with Andrew Vietze on Thursday, September 11 at 7pm to learn the story - and admire the beauty - of the white pine.

A donation of $10 is suggested. REGISTER HERE.

About our speaker:

Bestselling Maine author Andrew Vietze has been called “an excellent New England historian” by the Kennebec Journal and has won several awards for his history writing. The former Managing Editor of Down East: The Magazine of Maine, he's the author of over two dozen books, including Boon Island and Becoming Teddy Roosevelt, both of which were regional bestsellers, won Independent Publisher Book Awards, and were finalists for Book of the Year Awards (ForeWord Reviews).
As a journalist, Vietze’s work has appeared in a wide array of print and online publications, including: the New York Times' LifeWire, Time Out New York, Weather.com's “Forecast Earth,” AMC Outdoors, Explore, Big Sky Journal, Crawdaddy!, Popmatters, Offshore, and the Maine Times. He has twice won awards for history writing from the International Regional Magazine Association.
A Registered Maine Guide, Andrew Vietze had a tree fort in a tall old pine during his childhood and used to walk from one to the next in the forest canopy twenty feet above the ground. He spends half the year working as a seasonal ranger in Baxter State Park, stationed at an old sporting camp called Twin Pines.