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The book based on our “James River Journal” series is available online at http://www.timesdispatchbooks.com.
If you don’t have a computer, you can order “James River Journal: A Year in the Life of a River” by calling (804) 649-6261, option 1. You will give your credit card information to a desk clerk who will order the book for you.
The books are selling well. About 150 people turned out at the Times-Dispatch on Nov. 17 for the book’s launch. They bought copies and heard stories told by people who are featured in the book
There will be a night of storytelling by James River lovers here at the Times-Dispatch on Thursday, Nov. 19, from 6 to 8 p.m.
The event, free to the public, launches the book, “James River Journal: A Year in the Life of the River.“ Photographer Kevin Morley and I will be there to speak and sign books.
Some people who were subjects in stories in the book will also speak. They are David Sligh, the riverkeeper for the upper James; Chris Hull, a river lover who enjoys snorkeling with giant catfish; Danny Jefferson, a member of the Chickahominy Indian tribe; David Everette, a photographer who has captured thousands of images of the river; and Bryan Watts, a biologist whose research helps protect eagles and other birds along the James.
The paper is at 300 E. Franklin St. Parking is available.
The James River Journal series will live on as a book.
It will include condensed versions of all the stories I wrote, with new commentaries, plus more picture than you saw in the paper.
The book will sell for $14.99 and should be available in early November.
You can pre-order online by going to http://www.timesdispatchbooks.com.
Later, we will have copies on sale here at the newspaper.
Photographer Kevin Morley and I also will be signing books at various events. Stay tuned.
The James River Journal installment that runs Monday (Oct. 19) will be the last. I hope you hate to see it go. I know I do.
The year passed quickly. Photographer Kevin Morley and I began the project—a story a month for a year—last November with a piece about Richmond in fall.
We started in November with the idea that we would finish in October 2009, then turn the series into a calendar for 2010.
The calendar may or may not happen. But the Journal will live on in a bigger, better way. How? Find out by reading Monday’s paper.
Hundreds, and maybe thousands, of people attending the Richmond Folk Festival noticed an unpublicized star—the James River.
Numerous people strolled along the river or walked out on the catwalk that juts into the James from the western end of Brown’s Island.
While people on land played gospel, bluegrass and all sorts of music, on the river a great blue heron stabbed a fish and cormorants dove for meals to the tune of the rushing rapids.
It has always struck me as strange how local officials publicize the Canal Walk when, to me, the canal is basically a big tub of water. People are naturally drawn to the James, its rapids and its denizens.
