This event gives scholars an opportunity to discuss James Fenimore Cooper, his daughter, Susan Fenimore Cooper, and their time period in a congenial and festive atmosphere in the heart of Cooper Country, an immensely charming area of upstate New York.

The theme of the 13th seminar is "The Environment as Moral Force: Yesterday and Tomorrow." Chief texts are The Prairie and Rural Hours though papers need not be limited to these books.

Paper lengths of 8-10 pages (or twenty minutes reading time) are currently being sought. Attached to the seminar is a summer course for graduate and undergraduate credit in History and English.