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Accolades: Wick Griswold, Beth Richards
Posted 8/3/2005
Wick Griswold, assistant professor of sociology at Hillyer College, addressed the faculty of the Harvard School of Public Health on July 31 aboard The Heron as it cruised the lower Connecticut River.
Griswold talked about 11,000 years of human adaptation to the Connecticut River Estuary, touching on the foraging, horticulture, and trade activities of the Original People; invasions of the Dutch and English in the 17th century; agriculture, shipbuilding, the ivory and slave trade; the region’s role in the Revolution, the War of 1812, and the Civil War, and continued up through the Steamboat Era to modern-day tourism and recreation, and late-20th- and early 21st-century development.
He also discussed environmental issues such as water quality, water diversion, and invasive species, concluding with his vision of the river’s future.
Beth Richards, adjunct faculty member in the Department of Rhetoric, Language, and Culture, A&S, has received first prize in the Second Annual Editors' Prize for Best Essay/Memoir from Fourth Genre: Explorations in Nonfiction, a journal devoted to publishing notable, innovative work in nonfiction.
Robert L. Root, Jr., judge for the competition, described Richards’ piece, “The Fishing Story,” as “a very powerful essay.” Root admired “the pace and precision of the story; as compressed and compact as it is, its details are rich in implication and reveal or suggest a fuller story we have no difficulty intuiting between the lines.”
Richards' essay will be published in the Spring 2006 issue of Fourth Genre.
Griswold talked about 11,000 years of human adaptation to the Connecticut River Estuary, touching on the foraging, horticulture, and trade activities of the Original People; invasions of the Dutch and English in the 17th century; agriculture, shipbuilding, the ivory and slave trade; the region’s role in the Revolution, the War of 1812, and the Civil War, and continued up through the Steamboat Era to modern-day tourism and recreation, and late-20th- and early 21st-century development.
He also discussed environmental issues such as water quality, water diversion, and invasive species, concluding with his vision of the river’s future.
Beth Richards, adjunct faculty member in the Department of Rhetoric, Language, and Culture, A&S, has received first prize in the Second Annual Editors' Prize for Best Essay/Memoir from Fourth Genre: Explorations in Nonfiction, a journal devoted to publishing notable, innovative work in nonfiction.
Robert L. Root, Jr., judge for the competition, described Richards’ piece, “The Fishing Story,” as “a very powerful essay.” Root admired “the pace and precision of the story; as compressed and compact as it is, its details are rich in implication and reveal or suggest a fuller story we have no difficulty intuiting between the lines.”
Richards' essay will be published in the Spring 2006 issue of Fourth Genre.
