Polly Dyer – Seattle • Entered by Penelope Peterson on January 16, 2025
GOB Book Club
December 12, 2024 – December 12, 2024
Participants and Hours
| Pre Planning hours | 6 |
| Post Admin hours | |
| Activity Hours | 2 |
| Participants | 1 |
| Total Hours | 8 |
Key Issue: Water-related Conservation
Activity Type: Education & Outreach (tabling, films & lectures, regional B-walks/works)
Short Description of Activity
For this night’s Book Club discussion, we chose to read, Downriver: Into the Future of Water in the West. Here is what the University of Chicago Press has to say about this book:
“Fights over the river’s water, and what’s going to happen to it in the future, are longstanding, intractable, and only getting worse as the West gets hotter and drier and more people depend on the river with each passing year. As a former raft guide and environmental reporter, Heather Hansman, knew these fights were happening, but she felt driven to see them from a different perspective—from the river itself. So she set out on a journey, in a one-person inflatable pack raft, to paddle the river from source to confluence and see what the experience might teach her. Mixing lyrical accounts of quiet paddling through breathtaking beauty with nights spent camping solo and lively discussions with farmers, city officials, and other people met along the way, Downriver is the story of that journey, a foray into the present—and future—of water in the West.”
As usual, I had prepared discussion questions ahead of time. I attach these as a document below. I used these questions to frame the discussion.
Reflection/Evaluation
Seven Broads Zoomed in for our Book Club discussion this night. As usual, we had an interesting discussion with individuals raising thoughtful questions of their own. This night’s discussion constituted our fortieth Broads’ Book Club Discussion. In other words, we have read forty books over the six and half years I have led our Book Club. Needless to say, we have learned a lot from reading and discussing these books over the years.
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1. Polly Dyer Seattle Broads’ Book Club Discussion Questions on “Downriver: Into the Future of Water in the West.”