Following, I share an announcement of an upcoming lecture by Dr. Jen Brown, sponsored by WSU’s Manuscripts, Archives, and Special Collections (MASC). As mentioned in previous posts, MASC hold an immense collection of angling literate. Dr. Brown relied upon this literature in writing her 2017 book on fly fishing in the Western US, Trout Culture. I have previously contributed to a book and co-authored a book chapter with Dr. Brown, and I know her talk will be very intersting to all of us. Her lecture will livestreamed, and you can find the link for that stream below.
March 5: Library Lecture Examines History of Fly Fishing
The history of fly fishing is the subject of a WSU Libraries’ lecture at 2 p.m. Tuesday, March 5, in the Terrell Library atrium. Environmental historian and WSU alumna Jen Brown will explore the sport from ancient times to the modern world, drawing from books in the WSU Libraries’ Gallup Collection.
“Dr. Brown’s talk will illustrate the significance of five key books among the more than 16,000 texts in the collection,” said Trevor Bond, WSU Libraries’ associate dean of digital initiatives and special collections.
Co-sponsored by the WSU Department of History and the Honors College, the lecture will also be livestreamed.
Interested in the history of fisheries, animals, conservation, and natural resource policy, Brown wrote the book “Trout Culture: How Fly Fishing Forever Changed the Rocky Mountain West,” based on her WSU doctoral dissertation.
Brown is an independent scholar and writer based out of Bozeman, Montana. Before that, she was a tenured history professor at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi. Brown is finishing a book on dolphins in Cold War America and the story of the first successful animal liberation act in U.S. history.
For more information, contact lecture organizer Lipi Turner-Rahman, ilipi@wsu.edu.
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