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.

---> Paul Greens -The Plant Book Press Release 08