Alabamians Who Got Away

  

Edward O. Wilson

      There was an event in the Cloverdale section of Montgomery last weekend that was designed to keep college graduates from leaving the city when they graduate...to make them aware of what Montgomery has to offer...though it is hard to imagine them being here for four years and  not having become aware of what's here for them in all that time.
     I thought about that issue this morning while listening to an interview on NPR's Weekend edition on Alabama Public Radio.
    It was a conversation with Edward O. Wilson, who's title is Professor and Curator of Entomology at the Museum of Comparative Zoology at Harvard University. He has a new book

out: Letters To A Young Scientist.
    But he was born in Alabama...Birmingham in 1929 to be exact. He's been teaching at Harvard for 60 years, but got his love of critters in Alabama. He's now considered the world's leading authority on ants!
    Listen to the interview online if you get a chance. He's another of the Alabamians who got away.