Ecology Won

In 1978, veteran character actor and social activist Will Geer recorded a selection of literary writings on the theme of ecology. Geer begins his reading with a poem by Robert Frost and texts by Mark Twain, Walt Whitman, and Woody Guthrie. He continues with selections from Chaucer, William Shakespeare, and several unattributed Elizabethan plays, and provides commentary linking all the pieces together. His daughter Ellen Geer takes the role of the female voices in the readings from Shakespeare and three Elizabethan plays. The liner notes include the text of the 11 literary selections and brief biographies of the two actors.

Track Listing

101	Robert Frost: The Pasture	Will Geer and Ellen Geer	00:57
102	Walt Whitman: This Compost	Will Geer and Ellen Geer	03:22
103	Mark Twain: O Lord Our Father...	Will Geer and Ellen Geer	01:57
104	Letter to Will Geer from Woody Guthrie	Will Geer and Ellen Geer	00:34
105	Walt Whitman: Respondez	Will Geer and Ellen Geer	02:49
106	Woody Guthrie: So Long, It's Been Good to Know You	Will Geer and Ellen Geer	00:19
107	Geoffrey Chaucer: Parliament of Foules	Will Geer and Ellen Geer	00:43
108	William Shakespeare: King Henry V, Act V, Scene II	Will Geer and Ellen Geer	01:59
201	Abraham and Issac (Brome Version)	Will Geer and Ellen Geer	11:20
202	Simon and Susan	Will Geer and Ellen Geer	04:20
203	The Nativity and the Slaughter of the Innocents	Will Geer and Ellen Geer	07:09