Author Talk: Karin A. Martin - Get Plum Island!

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All Adults. Join University of Michigan professor Karin A. Martin for a conversation about her new book Get Plum Island!: Place and Politics in Massachusetts’s Ten-Year Fight Over the Parker River National Wildlife Refuge. The book tells the story of how the USFWS became interested in establishing a national wildlife refuge in Massachusetts, why Essex County became a premiere location, and how local communities and the state nearly succeeded in having the refuge abolished. Instead, after rounds of Congressional hearings and pocket veto by President Truman, a compromise was reached, reducing the refuge to about half its original size, and yet preserving the wonderful, vibrant refuge we know today. ​Karin A. Martin is the Mark A. Chesler Collegiate Professor of Sociology at the University of Michigan. She grew up in Amesbury, MA, received a BA from Hampshire College, and a PhD in Sociology from the University of California at Berkeley. Accessibility Notice: We strive to make our events accessible. To request a disability accommodation and/or language services, contact the department listed in the "Contact Info" pane on the right. Please allow at least two weeks to arrange accommodation.