Tue, May 04
|GIG HARBOR LITERARY SOCIETY – Online
"Braiding Sweetgrass" by Robin Wall Kimmerer
Drawing on her life as an indigenous scientist, and as a woman, Kimmerer shows how other living beings―asters and goldenrod, strawberries and squash, salamanders, algae, and sweetgrass―offer us gifts and lessons, even if we've forgotten how to hear their voices.
Date & Time
May 04, 2021, 6:30 PM – 10:30 PM
GIG HARBOR LITERARY SOCIETY – Online
About the Event
To participate and receive a link to this presentation, please email Robin Harrison at operations@harborhistorymuseum.org.
Join author David Williams as he discusses his new book Homewaters: A Human and Natural History of Puget Sound, which weaves history and science into a fascinating and hopeful narrative, one that will introduce newcomers to the astonishing life that inhabits the Sound and offers longtime residents new insight into and appreciation of the waters they call home.
Not far from Seattle skyscrapers live 150-year-old clams, more than 250 species of fish, and underwater kelp forests as complex as any terrestrial ecosystem. For millennia, vibrant Coast Salish communities have lived beside these waters dense with nutrient-rich foods, with cultures intertwined through exchanges across the waterways. Transformed by settlement and resource extraction, Puget Sound and its future health now depend on a better understanding of the region’s ecological complexities.
Focusing on the area south of Port Townsend…