Going Native: How Living Landscapes Support Human Health and Thriving Communities. Conversations with Dr. Douglas Tallamy & Dr. Andrea Faber Taylor. Leading researchers Dr. Tallamy and Dr. Faber Taylor will present about the importance of planting natives in urbanized areas for the well-being of living things and biodiversity, followed by …

Poetry on Brick Street will present poet Joan Colby at 6:30 p.m., Thursday, Aug. 7, at the SullivanMunce Cultural Center, 225 W. Hawthorne St., Zionsville.   Joan Colby has published widely in journals such as Poetry, Atlanta Review, South Dakota Review, The Spoon River Poetry Review, New York Quarterly, the new …

A party and talk for the new work, ‘If This Isn’t Nice, What Is? Advice To The Young: The Graduation Speeches’, selected and introduced by Dan Wakefield. Open to the public! “Like [that of] literary ancestor Mark Twain, Kurt Vonnegut’s crankiness is good-humored and sharp-witted.” — A. O. Scott, The …