Peter White is a retired professor of ecology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. For 28 of his 33 years at the University he doubled as the Director of the North Carolina Botanical Garden, an institution that has championed the concept of the "conservation garden," gardens that do well by environmental issues and biodiversity. He is the author of 150 papers and several books, the most recent of which is The World Atlas of Trees and Forests.
Through six decades, Bob Dylan has been a constant, despite the many changes of Dylan, Peter himself. and the world around all of us. For 30 years he has hosted the Annual Bob Dylan Party. In 2024, the six-hour, no-breaks party featured 17 song leaders and 66 songs. Over the decades, the party has featured 266 Dylan songs at least once. In retirement Peter has joined the online Dylan scholarship and fandom world. In 2023 he co-founded It's Alright Ma (I'm Only Reading), a Zoom-based Bob Dylan Book Club.
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