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SUMMARY:The Great Black Swamp: A Conversation with Patrick Wensink
DESCRIPTION:Register\n\nIn the summer of 2014\, Lake Erie’s western basin turned a shocking\, toxic green—an ecological disaster that threatened the drinking water of nearly 400\,000 Ohio residents. How did it happen\, and why does the answer lead back to a forgotten landscape most Americans have never heard of? \n\nJoin author Patrick Wensink on Zoom for a lively and deeply personal conversation about his book Great Black Swamp: Toxic Algae\, Toxic Relationships\, and the Most Interesting Place in America That Nobody’s Ever Heard Of. Blending environmental reporting\, Midwestern history\, and memoir\, Wensink traces the roots of today’s global algae crisis to the drained wetlands of northwest Ohio and Indiana—once a vast\, malaria-ridden ecosystem known as the Great Black Swamp.\n\nAs Wensink revisits his childhood home\, he explores industrial agriculture\, climate change\, American history\, and the scientists working on hopeful ecological interventions\, all while reckoning with his own past\, including a failing marriage and complicated personal relationships. The result is a surprising\, funny\, and urgent story about how landscapes shape people—and how damaged places might still point the way forward.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n  \nPatrick Wensink is the author of five books\, including the bestseller Broken Piano for President. His journalism appears in the New York Times\, Esquire\, Salon\, Men’s Health\, Oxford American and others. He is a professor of Creative Writing and directs the Mountain Heritage Literary Festival at Lincoln Memorial University. He was born and raised in Deshler\, Ohio. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nThe event will include a reading\, conversation\, and audience Q&A. Registration required.\n\n\nThis event is part of The Write Connection at Thoreau Farm\, our literary series of programs.
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