"The Nature Series" continues at Barrett Memorial Library on Nov. 19

Barrett Memorial Library and Kishwauketoe Nature Conservancy in Williams Bay will host the next installment of their popular collaborative Nature Series presentations on Tuesday, Nov. 19, 6 p.m., at the library.

The Nature Series presentation will feature a discussion of the 2024 New York Times best-selling book "The Light Eaters: How the Unseen World of Plant Intelligence Offers a New Understanding of Life on Earth," by award-winning environment and science reporter Zoë Schlanger. A viewing of a corresponding documentary will follow.

Copies of the book are available for checkout at the library.

The Barrett Memorial Library is located at 65 W. Geneva St. (State Hwy. 67) in Williams Bay.

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The Barrett Memorial Library is open Monday-Friday 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. and 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on Saturdays.

The 231-acre Kishwauketoe Nature Conservancy is located at 251 Elkhorn Rd. (State Hwy. 67) in Williams Bay.

In 135 Photos: Kishwauketoe Nature Conservancy, Williams Bay

Kishwauketoe Bumble Bee Feeds on White Snakeroot

Kishwauketoe Honey Bee Feeds on White Snakeroot

Kishwauketoe Bittersweet Nightshade

Kishwauketoe Blue Vervain

Kishwauketoe Boneset

Brown Eyed Susan coneflower blooms at Kishwauketoe Nature Conservancy

Kishwauketoe Bull Thistle

Kishwauketoe Calico Aster

Kishwauketoe Canada Goldenrod

Geneva Lake Conservancy Cardinal Flower Lobelia

Kishwauketoe Climbing False Buckwheat

Kishwauketoe Chicago & Northwestern Railroad Mile Post

Kishwauketoe Railroad Spur Trail On Old Chicago & Northwestern Railway Right-Of-Way

Kishwauketoe Common Milkweed

Kishwauketoe Devil's Beggarticks

Kishwauketoe Evening Primrose

Kishwauketoe Hymenochaetaceae Fungi

Kishwauketoe Giant Ragweed

Kishwauketoe Giant Sunflower

Geneva Lake Conservancy Sneezeweed

Geneva Lake Conservancy Wetland Boardwalk

Geneva Lake Conservancy Cardinal Flower

Geneva Lake Conservancy Wetland

Kishwauketoe Gray Dogwood

Kishwauketoe Great Blue Lobelia 2

Kishwauketoe Great Blue Lobelia

Kishwauketoe Guelder-rose (European Cranberry Bush)

Kishwauketoe Harris Creek at Geneva Lake

Kishwauketoe Hedge Bindweed (Wild Morning Glory, Granny-pop-out-of-bed)

Geneva Lake Conservancy Hymenochaetaceae Fungi

Kishwauketoe Ladies Thumb

Kishwauketoe Main Entrance, 251 Elkhorn Road, Williams Bay

Kishwauketoe Missouri Ironweed

Kishwauketoe Motherwort

Kishwauketoe Orange Jewelweed

Kishwauketoe New England Aster

Kishwauketoe Ninebark

Kishwauketoe Obedient Plant (Lionshearts)

Kishwauketoe Orange Jewelweed Close-up

Kishwauketoe Oriental Ladies Thumb

Kishwauketoe Pale Indian Plaintain

Kishwauketoe Panicled Aster

Kishwauketoe Prairie Dock

Kishwauketoe Railroad Spur Trail Bridge at Harris Creek

Chicago & Northwestern Railway remnant railroad trestle bridge supports

Kishwauketoe Riverbank Grape

Kishwauketoe Scenic View from Railroad Spur Trail

Kishwauketoe Nature Conservancy sign and Thomas B. Johnson Bridge, 251 Elkhorn Road, Williams Bay

Kishwauketoe Soapwort

Southwick Creek empties into Geneva Lake

Kishwauketoe Southwick Creek Trail 2

Kishwauketoe Southwick Creek Trail

Kishwauketoe Southwick Creek

Kishwauketoe Spotted Joe-pyeweed

Kishwauketoe Stiff Goldenrod

Kishwauketoe summer intern Joel Myers performs boardwalk repairs

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View from observation tower toward Geneva Lake at Kishwauketoe Nature Conservancy

Kishwauketoe Observation Tower

Kishwauketoe Virgin's Bower Clematis

Wetland Boardwalk off Railroad Spur Trail

Kishwauketoe Wetland Off Railroad Spur Trail

Kishwauketoe White Snakeroot

Kishwauketoe Wild Bergamot

Kishwauketoe Wild Campion

Kishwauketoe Wild Cucumber

Kishwauketo Bridge Over Southwick Creek

Kishwauketo Nature Conservancy founder and chairman Harold Friestad

Kishwauketoe American Elder

Kishwauketoe American Elm

Kishwauketoe American Pokeweed

Kishwauketoe Bee Feeds on Common Chicory

Kishwauketoe Nature Conservancy Site Director Jennifer Yunker

Kishwauketoe Blue Vervain

Kishwauketoe - Broadleaf Cattail

Kishwauketoe Arboretum - Bur Oak (Mossy-Cup Oak)

Kishwauketoe - Calico Aster

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Kishwauketoe Arboretum - Common Buttonbush

Kishwauketoe - Common Crownvetch

Kishwauketoe Arboretum - Common Hackberry

Kishwauketoe - Evening Primrose

Kishwauketoe - Grass Leaved Goldenrod

Kishwauketoe - Indian Hemp Dogbane

Kishwauketoe Arboretum - Kentucky Coffee Tree

Kishwauketoe Arboretum sign

Kishwauketoe - New England Aster

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Kishwauketoe - Late afternoon Observation Tower view looking toward Geneva Lake

Kishwauketoe - Orange Jewelwood closeup view

Kishwauketoe Arboretum - Paradise Apple.jpg

Kishwauketoe - Scenic view of Southwick Creek with flowering Boneset and Brown-Eyed Susan

Kishwauketoe Smooth Sumac.jpg

Kishwauketoe Arboretum - Southern Crab Apple

Kishwauketoe Southwick Creek at Geneva Lake

Kishwauketoe Southwick Creek late afternoon view

Kishwauketoe Southwick Creek early evening view

Geneva Lake Conservancy/Helen Rohner Children's Fishing Park - sunning turtle in wetland

Kishwauketoe Arboretum - Sycamore

Kishwauketoe Virginia Creeper vine

Kishwauketoe Wild Black Raspberry

Kishwauketoe Wild Carrot (Queen Anne's Lace)

Kishwauketoe - Arrowleaf Ragwort

Kishwauketoe Arboretum - Bitternut Hickory

Kishwauketoe - Wild Cucumber

Kishwauketoe - Williams Bay School Bur Oak "wish tree" Arbor Day project

Kishwauketoe - American Burnweed (Fireweed, Pilewort, White Fireweed, Eastern Burnweed, Butterweed)

Kishwauketoe - American Groundnut (Potato Bean, Cinnamon Vine, Indian Potato, Hopniss)

Kishwauketoe - Bee feeding on Joe-pyeweed

Kishwauketoe - Blue Vervain

Kishwauketoe - Boneset (Feverwort, Sweating Plant, March Sage, Wild Sage)

Kishwauketoe - Canada Goldenrod

Kishwauketoe - Cup Plant

Kishwauketoe - Cutleaf Coneflower (Green-headed Coneflower, Wild Garden Glow, Thimbleweed)

Kishwauketoe - Devil's Beggarsticks

Kishwauketoe - Evening Primrose

Geneva Lake Conservancy/Helen Rohner Children's Fishing Park, 159 Elkhorn Rd. (State Hwy. 67), Williams Bay

Kishwauketoe - Great Blue Lobelia (Blue Cardinal Flower, Great Lobelia, Big Blue Lobelia, Blue Lobelia)

Kishwauketoe - Green Ash

Kishwauketoe - Guelder-rose (European Cranberry)

Kishwauketoe - Hedge Bindweed (Wild Morning Glory or Granny-pop-out-of-bed)

Kishwauketoe - Wetland scene near Geneva Lake

Kishwauketoe - Wetland view near Geneva Lake

Kishwauketoe - Main wetland boardwalk near Geneva Lake

Kishwauketoe - Missouri Ironweed

Kishwauketoe - Purple Loosestrife

Kishwauketoe - Red Osier Dogwood

Kishwauketoe - Riverbank Grape

Kishwauketoe - Silky Dogwood

Kishwauketoe - Southwick Creek mid-afternoon view

Kishwauketoe - Spotted Joe-pyeweed

Kishwauketoe - Spotted Water Hemlock

Kishwauketoe - Tall Beggarsticks (Big Devils Beggarsticks, Common Beggarsticks, Tall Bur-Marigold)

Kishwauketoe - Virgin's Bower Clematis (Woodbine, Italian Clematis, Devil's Darning Needles, Devil's Hari, Wild Hops, Love Vine)

Kishwauketoe - Virgin's Bower Clematis