Episode 6: Sally Bethea
Jim and Janet are joined by Sally Bethea, the retired founding director of Chattahoochee Riverkeeper. She served as executive director and riverkeeper for two decades and continues to assist Chattahoochee Riverkeeper as a senior advisor.
Sally is one of the first women in America to become a “riverkeeper”—a vocal defender of a specific waterway who holds polluters accountable. In her new book Keeping the Chattahoochee, she tells stories that range from joyous and funny to frustrating—even alarming—to illustrate what it takes to save an endangered river. Her tales are triggered by the regular walks she takes through a forest to the Chattahoochee over the course of a year, finding solace and kinship in nature.
Bethea also publishes a monthly column, Above the Waterline, in Atlanta Intown. She lives and writes in midtown Atlanta.
Purchase Sally’s new book “Keeping the Chattahoochee”: https://ugapress.org/book/9780820364322/keeping-the-chattahoochee/
Sally Bethea
Hosts: Jim Newbury and Janet Wells
Guest: Sally Bethea
Producer: Tucker Wells
Theme Song: Jason Wells
Performed by: March Fourth Marching Band
Recording of owl hoots: Tom Herrmann