Salmon Worship: Is it Wrong?

A Pacific Northwest without wild salmon might as well be Crawford, Texas. So on September 25th we’re going to preserve the Northwest’s Northwest and keep crawford in Crawford. How? A salmon Indian and national treasure (Sherman Alexie), a living bard and national treasure (Jeffrey Foucalt), and a fly fishing reprobate (David James Duncan) are going to sing the praises of salmon and their creeks, rivers, and seas in honor of a young man and a school (Liam Wood and the Liam Wood Fly Fishers and River Guardians) who share our love for the same. As for the program, Sherman and Jefrrey and me are gonna dig a redd. We’re gonna get folks in touch with their Inner Alevin. We’re gonna prove the existence of ocean gods. We’re gonna start a may fly hatch and cast Crippled Emergers. We’re gonna troll hootchies. We’re gonna draw conclusions about the resemblance between Humanity and Salmonity. We’re gonna cast the damn line clear off the reel. We’re gonna catch something. I hope everybody can come catch it with us. -- David James Duncan

 

Enjoy a great evening of entertainment with David James Duncan, Sherman Alexie and singer, songwriter, Jeffrey Foucault. 

General admission tickets are $15, student tickets are $10 and are available at the WWU box office,

Community Food Coop and Village Books. Ticket proceeds will benefit the Liam Wood Fly Fishers & River Guardians program in Whatcom County and in Missoula, Montana. The program uses fly fishing to teach stewardship, conservation, river ecology, and restoration to inspire young people, and others, to take action to protect and improve the natural world. Liam Wood, for whom the program is named, was overcome by gasoline fumes and drowned while fly fishing in Whatcom Creek on June 10, 1999, just before the creek exploded. The idea for the school came to David James Duncan when he visited Village Books in 2001 and learned of Liam’s love of his book, The River Why, and of fishing.