“From Sea to Source” is an international program reminding us that rivers are, at a basic level, means of transporting materials to the ocean. “Materials” in this case means fish, which are easily overshadowed by all of our other river concerns.
When he was nine, my brother Steven enlisted the rest of the kids in our isolated neighborhood to help him build earthworks in the empty field behind our house. Not a fort—we already lived in one of those—but a replica of Little Round Top, a crucial site on the Gettysburg battlefield.