New Book on Frack Sand Mining and Impacts on the Local Communities

When the Hills Are Gone: Frac Sand Mining and the Struggle for Community

Book Release and Signing, October 24, 2018 — 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM

Fall Creek Public Library, 122 East Lincoln Avenue, Fall Creek, WI, 54742

Professor Tom Pearson will discuss how anthropological research was used in writing his book about the impact of frac sand mining on sense of place, community, and local democracy in our area.

THOMAS W. PEARSON is associate professor of anthropology and assistant director of the Honors College at UW–Stout. He is the author of When the Hills Are Gone: Frac Sand Mining and the Struggle for Community, published by the University of Minnesota Press. His writing has also appeared in several academic journals, including American Anthropologist, Cultural Anthropology, American Ethnologist, and Human Organization. He lives in Menomonie, Wisconsin.

This event is co-sponsored by the Fall Creek Public Library

Our book sales committee will have copies of “When the Hills Are Gone: Frac Sand Mining and the Struggle for Community” available for purchase at this event. Please join us for an autographing session following the presentation.

More info on this talk and Heather Swan’s talk on honeybees at the CF library are at:
cvbookfest.org

Thanks for your help! Eileen Immerman, CCC-WIS.COM

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See also from: Wisconsin Public Radio

“Frac Sand Mining and the Struggle for Community”

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