Want to learn how to fish from the comfort of your own home? Join MassWildlife for a free online introductory fishing class. This beginner’s class will teach you all the basics including what gear you’ll need and how to use it, rigging up your rod, where to find fishing spots, fish ID and anatomy, as well as the basic rules and regulations. Dates are July 21 and July 29, from 4 – 6. Register at https://www.mass.gov/service-details/masswildlife-calendar
Join the fun at the Great Meadows National Wildlife Refuge, 73 Weir Hill Road Sudbury, from 10:00 AM– 2:00 PM on Saturday, June 21.
Did you know that when you buy a freshwater fishing license, you are supporting fish and wildlife work in Massachusetts? License and permit fees directly support freshwater fish management programs, fishing access improvements, conservation education programs, and other fish and wildlife efforts. Go to www.mass.gov/massfishhunt for license purchasing information or visit a local license vendor or MassWildlife office.
Fishing demonstrations, tips and techniques will be on display at Jamaica Pond Thursday and Friday, April 19 and 20, from 10 – noon. Try out available fishing gear. A valid fishing license is needed, however. For more information, call 617-635-4505, or email parks@cityofboston.gov. The lyrical picture below, taken at Jamaica Pond, is available for purchase at www.nedhorn.deviantart.com.
Porter Square Books, 25 White Street, Cambridge, hosts author Tovar Cerulli on Thursday, March 15, beginning at 7 pm. Drawing on personal experience, philosophy, history, and religion, Cerulli shows how America’s overly sanitized habits of consumption have disconnected us from our food, resulting in many of the spiritual and environmental crises we now face. In this time of intensifying concern over ecological degradation and animal welfare, how do we make peace with the fact that, even by growing organic vegetables, life is sustained by death? As a boy, Tovar Cerulli spent his summers fishing for trout and hunting bullfrogs. While still in high school, he began to experiment with vegetarianism. By the age of twenty he was a vegan. A decade later, in the face of declining health, he returned to omnivory and within a few years found himself heading into the woods, rifle in hand. Tovar split his undergraduate years between Dartmouth College and the New School for Social Research in Manhattan, and has worked as a carpenter and freelance writer. An environmentalist, Tovar has also worked as a logger. He is currently enrolled as a Ph.D. student at UMass Amherst. His research is focused on food, hunting, and human relationships with nature. For more information, visit www.portersquarebooks.com, or call 617-491-2220.
