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wellwritten and instructive, yet entertaining book about a cultural, town, family and friend tradition in New Jersey.
A small town, Lambertville, and long time citizens maintain this tradition of shad fishing in the Delaware River.
The writer looks in at the group, but is also part of the group, She helps you look at a piece of culture right under your nose when you think folklore and folkways have to be exotic.
You truly get a picture of the people, the culture, and the community, Lewis Island in Lambertville, New Jersey, is the site of the Lewis Fishery, the last haul seine American shad fishery on the nontidal Delaware River.
The Lewis family has fished in the same spot sinceand operated the fishery through five generations.
The extended Lewis family, its fishery's crew, and the Lambertville community connect with people throughout the region, including environmentalists concerned about the river.
It was a Lewis who raised the alarm and helped resurrect a polluted river and its biosphere.
While this once exclusively masculine activity is central to the tiny island, today men, women, and children fish, living out a sense of place, belonging, and sustainability.


In Another Haul: Narrative Stewardship and Cultural Sustainability at the Lewis Family Fishery, author Charlie Groth highlights the traditional, vernacular, and everyday cultural expressions of the family and crew to understand how community, culture, and the environment intersect.
Groth argues there is a system

of narrative here that combines verbal activities and everyday activities,

On the basis of over two decades of participation and observation, interviews, surveys, and a wide variety of published sources, Groth identifies a phenomenon she calls "narrative stewardship.
" This narrative system, emphasizing place, community, and commitment, in turn, encourages environmental and cultural stewardship, tradition, and community.
Intricate and embedded, the system appears invisible, but careful study unpacks and untangles how people, often unconsciously, foster sustainability.
Though an ethnography of an occupation, the volume encourages readers to consider what arises as special about all cultures and what needs to be seen and preserved.
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