PICKING UP THE FLUTE: A MEMOIR THROUGH MUSIC

"Elder is an immensely gifted writer."
—Chris Bohjalian, Boston Globe Magazine

Picking Up the Flute sets to music a former professor’s musings on retirement, marriage, literature, and the natural world. From his home in historic Bristol, Vermont to Ireland’s Connemara coast, travel through John Elder’s exquisite topography and relish his explorations of nature, poetry, and geology.

Due out May 6, 2016
Published by Green Writers Press