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AUDUBON AWARD 
The Dr. Alfred Lewy Memorial Book Award, given annually by the Illinois 
Audubon Society to recognize outstanding conservation achievements, this 
year honors the founders of the Illinois Prairie Path. Announcement was 
made by Miss Betty Groth, I.A.S. vice president for conservation. 
The Prairie Path group is commended for succeeding, after three years 
of strenuous concerted activity, in preserving much of the old Chicago, 
Aurora and Elgin Railroad right-of-way as a trail for hiking, nature study, 
bicycling and horseback riding. 
The presentation was made March 12 onstage at the James Simpson 
Theater of the Field Museum of Natural History. 
Accepting the award for the Prairie Path founders was Mrs. May 
Theilgaard Watts, distinguished naturalist-emeritus of the Morton Arbore- 
tum, Lisle. The creation of Prairie Path, which has resulted from efforts 
of many civic-minded citizens of Cook, Dupage and Kane counties, has 
been spearheaded from the first by Mrs. Watts. Many of the Path’s 
sponsors were in attendance, along with Gunnar Peterson, director of 
the Open Lands Project, which has been one of its principal supporters. 
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BOOK REVIEW 
DUNE BOY, by Edwin Way Teale. Dodd, Mead and Co., 432 Park 
Avenue South, New York, N. Y. 10016. 255 pages. $4.50 
It is a great testimony to the quality and eduring popularity of the writings 
of Edwin Way Teale, that his “Dune Boy,” first published over two decades 
ago, should be reissued in 1966. In these pages, Teale records his early years 
in the dune country of Indiana and on the farm of his grandparents — 
ninety acres of marsh, woods and sandy soil. 
He writes movingly of his great debt to his grandparents who gave him 
all the freedom he needed — the freedom to roam these acres of corn and 
wheat and potatoes, plus the woods and swamps he made his very own. 
Anyone who has ever spent a boyhood vacation on a farm, or even a 
mere week-end, can excitingly recall filling and delicious meals. Teale’s 
experience was no exception as he recalls the great meals served by his 
grandmother. He was kind enough to place two recipes in the book — 
- copied from the ancient brown-covered cookbook: one is for carrot marma- 
' lade, and the other is for a “no-name-cake.” 
Teale fills these pages with boyhood adventures. One of the most 
amusing is his capture of mice in the farm’s granary and his attempt to 
sell the mousepelts at a fur store. The grown-up clerks at the store sent 
the 8-year-old boy on a futile walk from one store to another in a great 
teasing game. 
For those who live in an increasingly urbanized society, this chronicle 
serves to remind us of the great and simpler days of the early Twentieth 
century, days that will never return to the author or to us. It is fun to 
look back. — Raymond Mostek 
