AuSable Fellows

We will be watching the film "Between Heaven and Earth: The Plight of the Chesapeake Watermen"

For 200 years, fishing has been the lifeblood of Chesapeake Bay's Tangier Island. "Between Heaven & Earth" chronicles the battle over crabs and oysters that came to a head in 1995, when the conflict between watermen and environmentalists turned violent. It shows how a UW-Madison graduate student's doctoral thesis on faith-based conflict resolution gave birth to mutual hope and healing, though many had considered the conflict hopelessly deadlocked.