So you might ask, what can a fourth-generation shrimper say to inspire a group of freshmen about to embark on a four year undergraduate experience on the bucolic Fairfield University campus?
Campus officials say Diane Wilson, author of “An Unreasonable Woman: A True Story of Shrimpers, Politicos, Polluters, and the Fight for Seadrift, Texas,” is an example of moral courage and intellectual persistence.” She is being held up as a working class model for students grappling with terms like “bio-diversity” and “sustainability.” Wilson, after fishing the bays of the Gulf Coast of Texas became an activist who fought against toxins dumped into the bay. She will address students during Fall Convocation, three days into the fall semester, onFriday, Sept. 4 at 10 a.m. on the Bellarmine Lawn.
Hopefully the gang will have questions. Freshmen all got her book over the summer to read.
