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    A Tale of Three Rivers:: Of Wooly Buggers, Bowling Balls, Cigarette Butts, and the Future of Appalachian Brook Trout
    A Tale of Three Rivers:: Of Wooly Buggers, Bowling Balls, Cigarette Butts, and the Future of Appalachian Brook Trout
    A Tale of Three Rivers:: Of Wooly Buggers, Bowling Balls, Cigarette Butts, and the Future of Appalachian Brook Trout
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    A Tale of Three Rivers:: Of Wooly Buggers, Bowling Balls, Cigarette Butts, and the Future of Appalachian Brook Trout

    By Matthew Dickerson

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    Matthew Dickerson takes his readers from an Applachian trout stream in western North Carolina where wild trout are reduced to sipping cigarette butts, up through his home state of Vermont where development and the ski industry threaten the state's iconic pastoral riversides, and finally into western Maine to a once dead river that has returned to life. The tale takes us not only to the three eponymous rivers, but to other nearby streams and waters. Though neither an historical nor as scientific text, the writing is informed by both, and as readers are drawn through the tale, they will grow in their own understanding of both stream ecology and the history of human habitation and consumption. The book is illustrated by original prints from Vermont artist Courtney Allenson.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherIndependent Publishers Group
    Release dateSep 1, 2018
    ISBN9781609404581
    A Tale of Three Rivers:: Of Wooly Buggers, Bowling Balls, Cigarette Butts, and the Future of Appalachian Brook Trout
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    Matthew Dickerson

    Matthew T. Dickerson teaches at Middlebury College. In addition to his three-volume fantasy novel, The Daegmon War, he is also the author of two works of medieval heroic historic fiction (The Finnsburg Encounter and The Rood and the Torc) and the author or coauthor of numerous books about fantasy and mythopoeic literature. He currently lives in Vermont.

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      A Tale of Three Rivers: - Matthew Dickerson

      Matthew Dickerson takes his readers from an Applachian trout stream in western North Carolina—where wild trout are reduced to sipping cigarette butts—up to his home state of Vermont, where development and the ski industry threaten the state’s iconic pastoral riversides. Fnally he heads into western Maine to a once-dead river that has returned to life. Along the way, the author shares stories of both loss and hope through the eyes of a fly fisherman chasing wild trout. This lovingly described journey brings us through Dickerson’s own life of discovery and his love of fly fishing, trout, and the rivers where trout live. Though neither an historical nor a scientific text, the writing is informed by both. Readers will gain an understanding of both stream ecology and the history of human habitation and consumption—along with getting a grand fishing tale. A Tale of Three Rivers is illustrated with original woodcuts by Vermont artist Courtney Allenson.

      A Tale of Three Rivers: Of Wooly Buggers, Bowling Balls, Cigarette Butts, and the Future of Appalachian Brook Trout

      © 2018 by Matthew Dickerson

      Woodcut illustrations © 2018 by Courtney Allenson

      First Edition

      Print Edition ISBN: 978-1-60940-457-4

      ePub ISBN: 978-1-60940-458-1

      Kindle ISBN: 978-1-60940-459-8

      PDF ISBN: 978-1-60940-460-4

      Wings Press

      627 E. Guenther • San Antonio, Texas 78210

      On-line catalogue and ordering:

      www.wingspress.com

      All Wings Press titles are distributed to the trade by Independent Publishers Group • www.ipgbook.com

      Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data:

      Names: Dickerson, Matthew T., 1963- author. | Allenson, Courtney, illustrator.

      Title: A tale of three rivers : of wooly buggers, bowling balls, cigarette butts, and the future of Appalachian brook trout / Matthew Dickerson ; illustrations by Courtney Allenson.

      Description: First edition. | San Antonio, Texas : Wings Press, 2018. | Series: Heartstreams ; vol. II

      Identifiers: LCCN 2018010668| ISBN 9781609404574 (trade pbk. : alk. paper) | ISBN 9781609404598 (mobi pocket/kindle) | ISBN 9781609404604 (pdf )

      Subjects: LCSH: Brook trout fishing--New England--Anecdotes. | Fly fishing--New England--Anecdotes. | Dickerson, Matthew T., 1963-

      Classification: LCC SH689.3 .D53 2018 | DDC 799.17/554--dc23

      LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018010668

      Contents

      Prologue: Brook Trout, Appalachia, and Story

      Introduction: A Flawed (and Romantic) though Useful Premise, and a Note about Fly-Fishing and the Origins of this Book

      1. Old Cars and One Cigarette: Tulula Creek, North Carolina

      2. Rolling and Bowling Down the River: Mad River, Vermont

      3. Resurrection: The Androscoggin River, Maine

      Epilogue: S. Fontinalis, a Fly Rod, and More Rivers

      About the Author

      Prologue:

      Brook Trout, Appalachia, and Story

      This book tells a story. Since I am the narrator and one of the characters, it is something of my own story. Fortunately for readers, however, I am not the primary character. I don’t claim that my own life is interesting; I have no plans to write a memoir, and if I did I don’t imagine anybody would buy it. But the interesting parts of my story involve rivers and trout. And those rivers—like the generations of fish that have inhabited them—have tales that are much longer and more interesting than my own. Which is to say, in the story I am telling here, these rivers are

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