BRUNSWICK

On Earth Day, Saturday at 4 p.m., Gulf of Maine Books at 134 Maine St., Brunswick will host author Brooke Williams, reading from his new book “Open Midnight — Where Ancestors & Wilderness Meet.”

Williams has spent the past 30 years advocating for the wilderness. He has published four books and numerous articles. He and his wife, author Terry Tempest Williams, divide their time between Utah and Wyoming.

“Open Midnight” weaves two parallel stories about the wilderness – that of Brooke’s year alone, ground-truthing backcountry maps of southern Utah by road and on foot, with his dog Rio, and the story of his great-great-great-grandfather, who in 1863 came with a group of Mormons from England to cross the ocean with his family, headed for the American West.

Author Rick Bass said of Brooke and the book: “Brooke Williams is one of Southern Utah’s most powerful defenders. ‘Open Midnight’ is a great and honest account of his vital work, with a little bit of the ghost of Darwin thrown in.”

Author Bill Plotkin said “Brooke Williams opens wide the hidden, midnight door between the mysteries of wild landscapes and the depths of the human psyche, and gracefully ushers us across the threshold into the numinous — a lost portal the world urgently needs in these dark and arduous times.”

The event is free, and open to the public.

For more information please call Gulf of Maine Bookstore at (207) 729-5083.