Lewis Creek Lost and Found. (Reviews).by Kevin Dann $19.95. University Press of New England The University Press of New England (or UPNE), founded in 1970, is a university press that is supported by Brandeis University, Dartmouth College (where it is located), the University of New Hampshire, Northeastern University, Tufts University and the University of Vermont. , 2001. This is a story of the river that borders our farm in Vermont, which author Kevin Dann calls "a middling river, anonymous and unseen to all but a few fisherman, canoeists, and neighbors who live along or not far from its banks." The story of Lewis Creek is told through the lives of people whose explorations in the watershed watershed, elevation or divide separating the catchment area, or drainage basin, of one river system or group of river systems from another system or group of systems. The term is also often used synonymously with drainage basin. reveal the inextricable in·ex·tri·ca·ble adj. 1. a. So intricate or entangled as to make escape impossible: an inextricable maze; an inextricable web of deceit. b. links between human and natural communities. Botanist Cyrus Pringle Cyrus Guernsey Pringle (1838-1911) was an American botanist who spent a career of 35 years cataloguing the plants of North America, especially Mexico. He is in the top 5 of historical botanists for sheer quantity of new species discovered -- approximately 1,200 new species, 100 new (1838-1911) began his collection of more than 50,000 plants in the watershed. Minister John Perry's (1825-1872) paleontological pa·le·on·tol·o·gy n. The study of the forms of life existing in prehistoric or geologic times, as represented by the fossils of plants, animals, and other organisms. studies led to reconciliation between his faith in God and Darwin's theory of evolution. Quaker farmer Rowland Robinson's historical fiction (1833-1900) chronicles the folkways folkways, term coined by William Graham Sumner in his treatise Folkways (1906) to denote those group habits that are common to a society or culture and are usually called customs. of native Americans and emigrants who inhabited land along Lewis Creek. But this is not conventional biography. It is a fascinating illustration of how we can "find" the watersheds in which we live in ways that transform them for us from mere natural landscapes to unique human places. By telling the story of this "middling river" through the three men's lives, Dann reveals how to discover a watershed's ecological and cultural sense of place." When my son was 8, we hiked to the top of a small mountain overlooking Lewis Creek and "The Hollow" where we live. "I wish we had a view of the landscape like this from our house," I remarked. Jon quickly responded: "But Dad, we are the landscape." This book confirms the wisdom of that response. |
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