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Spring 2020: A Special Issue on Water

Great Lakes Sea Lamprey by Cory Brant Book Cover

More than a Fish Story: A Review of Great Lakes Sea Lamprey: The 70 Year War on a Biological Invader, by Cory Brant.

Brant has travelled all around the Great Lakes basin, interviewing fishermen and scientists. He clearly honors these people and the work they have done. Their pictures and their stories are scattered throughout the book.

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Brant has travelled all around the Great Lakes basin, interviewing fishermen and scientists. He clearly honors these people and the work they have done. Their pictures and their stories are scattered throughout the book.

Water carriers in Cyprus in the early 1900s.

The Last “Water Carrier”

As [women water carriers] passed, almost like a ritual, the village men, especially younger ones, working in the nearby fields and farms would take a break from their work and line up on the sides of the road to watch them go by.

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As [women water carriers] passed, almost like a ritual, the village men, especially younger ones, working in the nearby fields and farms would take a break from their work and line up on the sides of the road to watch them go by.

Water image of light wave

What Water Remembers

Once, a long time ago, when the earth was old but Serbs were still young, men and women and everyone in between thought that water was God and they prayed to it fervently.

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Once, a long time ago, when the earth was old but Serbs were still young, men and women and everyone in between thought that water was God and they prayed to it fervently.

gorgeous lake surrounded by trees and bright blue sky

Algal Bloom

I remember the first thing Vienna said to me, after she ran up the driveway to our cabin, was “The water is full of poison.”  When I said “What?” she stepped back, and scraped her eyes over me, instead of answering, a clear appraisal.  “You got a little taller,” she said. She was much taller,

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I remember the first thing Vienna said to me, after she ran up the driveway to our cabin, was “The water is full of poison.”  When I said “What?” she stepped back, and scraped her eyes over me, instead of answering, a clear appraisal.  “You got a little taller,” she said. She was much taller,

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