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☆ Armed With Saran Wrap, She Sinks in the Muck to Save the Planet
  + stars: | 2024-08-01 | by ( Christopher Maag | ) www.nytimes.com   time to read: +1 min
One moment, Dorothy Peteet stood on a mat of squishy grass in Idlewild marsh, on the edge of Jamaica Bay in southern Queens. The next moment she sank to her hips in the cool, sulfuric muck. “Yes, this happens,” Dr. Peteet, one of the world’s foremost experts on marshes, said. “I don’t think I remembered to bring any towels.”A saltwater marsh is an in-between place. For centuries, New Yorkers viewed Jamaica Bay’s swamps as smelly barriers to progress, fit to become garbage dumps only when they couldn’t be drained and paved into highways and airports.
Persons: Dorothy Peteet, “, ”, Peteet Organizations: diamondback terrapins Locations: Idlewild, Jamaica Bay, Queens, Yorkers, Jamaica
☆ Ellen Gilchrist, 1984 National Book Award Winner for 'Victory Over Japan,' Dies at 88
  + stars: | 2024-02-01 | by ( Associated Press | Feb. | At P.M. | ) www.usnews.com   time to read: +3 min
(AP) — Ellen Gilchrist, a National Book Award winner whose short stories and novels drew on the complexities of people and places in the American South, has died. An obituary from her family said Gilchrist died Tuesday in Ocean Springs, Mississippi, where she had lived in her final years. “Victory Over Japan,” a collection of short stories set in Mississippi and Arkansas, was awarded the National Book Award for fiction in 1984. She said at the Mississippi Book Festival that she wrote the story at a time when she and her friends were having conversations about abortion versus adoption. Gilchrist's survivors include her sons Marshall Peteet Walker, Jr., Garth Gilchrist Walker and Pierre Gautier Walker; her brother Robert Alford Gilchrist; 18 grandchildren and 10 great-grandchildren.
Persons: JACKSON, — Ellen Gilchrist, Gilchrist, ”, “, William Faulkner, Eudora Welty, Welty, ” Gilchrist, Marshall Peteet Walker, Jr, Garth Gilchrist Walker, Pierre Gautier Walker, Robert Alford Gilchrist Organizations: Mississippi Delta, Millsaps College, KUAF Public Radio, University of Arkansas Locations: Miss, American, Ocean Springs , Mississippi, Mississippi, Arkansas, Vicksburg , Mississippi, Jackson , Mississippi, New Orleans, Fayetteville , Arkansas, Mississippi Delta , New Orleans, Fayetteville
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