Pikes Peak Library District welcomes author and journalist Jim O'Donnell to speak on his book Fountain Creek: Big Lessons from a Little River. Join us for this author talk at Manitou Springs Library. Join us for the author's presentation followed by a Q&A discussion. Registration is required and spots are limited. Register at tiny.ppld.org/odonnell
Copies of Fountain Creek will be available for purchase and signing after the presentation.
About the book:
From its headwaters high up Colorado’s legendary Pike’s Peak to suburban concrete-lined canals, Fountain Creek has endured nearly everything humans could do to a single watershed. It has been dammed, diverted, drained, poisoned, restored, exploited, ignored—and yet it has survived. Journalist and archaeologist Jim O’Donnell grew up exploring among the beavers and discarded beer bottles that have long populated Fountain Creek. Irreverent, deeply knowledgeable, and endlessly curious, O’Donnell guides us through the contradictions and complexities of one of the most heavily urbanized areas in one of the fastest growing states in the nation.
Fountain Creek is at once a reflection of our ever-changing relationship to the natural world and a challenge for each of us to reexamine the many ways we are connected to the world around us, to water, and to each other.
About the author:
Jim O’Donnell is a writer and photographer whose work has appeared in Sierra Magazine, El Palacio, and elsewhere. After a career in archaeology and journalism, O’Donnell continues to work as a community conservation activist and wilderness advocate in the American Southwest where he fights to protect and restore wetlands and watersheds. Born and raised in southern Colorado, O’Donnell lives in Taos, New Mexico.
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