Paul Green’s Daughter to Visit
The Lost Colony
Latest book combines her photography with father’s writings
(Manteo,
NC - July 16, 2008) On June 25, Betsy Green Moyer will visit
Roanoke Island to see her father’s long-running drama
The Lost Colony
and to sign her latest book,
Paul Green's Plant Book: An
Alphabet of Flowers and Folklore. The
publication combines intimate color images of North Carolina
wildflowers, taken by Moyer, with the writings of her late
father, Paul Green, author of
The Lost Colony.
A unique and captivating book, it is of interest to
botanists, folklorists, historians, photographers, and
admirers of Paul Green.
About Betsy Green Moyer
Betsy
Green Moyer, daughter of the late Paul Green, developed a
passion for wildlife photography in the summer of 1995 while
visiting Yosemite National Park. Armed with a new camera,
she was so inspired by the scenery that she began to shoot
photographs of the wide expanses of the west and its many
wildflowers. Upon completion of her trip, Betsy has focused
increasingly on close-up macrophotography of plants and
flowers.
Prior to
photography, most of Betsy’s professional career was devoted
to music. After attending one year of college at UNC Chapel
Hill, she earned bachelor’s degrees in music and piano from
Oberlin College and Conservatory in Ohio. Betsy also
received a master’s degree in music from the New England
Conservatory of Music. She was a piano teacher, performer,
and management agent for classical musicians for more than
20 years.
Born and
raised in Chapel Hill, North Carolina, Betsy describes her
parents. Paul and Elizabeth Green, as people of the earth
whose love of nature was manifested in almost all of their
activities. “Every afternoon at five, weather permitting,
they stopped whatever indoor activities they were engaged
in, put on their ‘gardening togs,’ and went to work in the
garden,” Betsy recalls. She learned to identify plants,
shrubs, and trees native to the area through family walks on
their 200 acres of woods outside Chapel Hill.
Betsy
wanted to combine her love of photography with her father’s
last work, Paul Green’s
Wordbook: An Alphabet of Reminiscence, which was
published posthumously in 1990. Thus, her new book, the
result of ten photographic field trips to North Carolina, is
entitled Paul Green’s
Plant Book: An Alphabet of Flowers and Folklore.
Co-founder of the Sudbury Valley Nature Photographers, Betsy
regularly takes photographic field trips to scenic
destinations such as Great Meadows Wildlife Refuge in
Concord, Massachusetts, Arches National Park in Utah, Great
Smokies National Park in Tennessee, and Monhegan Island off
the coast of Maine. She is the winner of numerous prizes
for her macrophotography of flowers and nature. Her prints
have been displayed in galleries, libraries, and other
venues near Wayland, Massachusetts, where she lives with her
husband Bill.
More of
Betsy’s photography can be viewed by visiting
www.bmga.com.
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Paul Greens -The Plant Book Press
Release 08
