Mother’s Day marks the release of Father’s Day Creek: On fly fishing, fatherhood, and the last best place on Earth, a memoir by veteran columnist for the Baltimore Sun, Dan Rodricks. The book includes a foreword by Lefty Kreh, legendary fly fisherman and fly fishing instructor.
About the book.
Where would you want to be if you knew the world would end tomorrow How would you want to remember life on Earth? For the sake of sanity and soul, everyone should have a place in the outdoors they consider their personal sanctuary, a “spirit-home” that restores faith in the natural world even as climate change threatens it.
Award-winning journalist and long-time angler Dan Rodricks describes the little piece of paradise he found through fly fishing—Father’s Day Creek, his name for a river in Pennsylvania that he considers The Last Best Place on Earth. The book challenges readers to identify their own Last Best Place and spend time there. The story unfolds over three hours on a single Father’s Day morning. While prospecting for trout, the author reflects, hour by hour, on his experiences with a fly rod and more than 50 years of fishing with his father, friends and children. The book offers advice on fly fishing and parenthood, and explores the wonders of finding one’s “spirit- home” midst the noise of modern life.
Hardcover $28.99 / 978-1-62720-219-0
Paperback $18.99 / 978-1-62720-220-6
Ebook $6.99 / 978-1-62720-221-3
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About Dan Rodricks
Dan Rodricks is an award-winning columnist for The Baltimore Sun, and, over a journalism career spanning five decades, he has been the host of local and regional radio and television shows as well as The Sun’s podcast, Roughly Speaking. His column, launched in The Baltimore Evening Sun in 1979, is one of the longest-running in the U.S. and has garnered regional and national journalism awards. Over the course of writing some 6,000 columns, and in his broadcasting work, Rodricks from time to time revealed his love of nature and interest in environmental issues. Excerpts of some of his outdoors columns appear in Fathers’ Day Creek. Rodricks lives in Baltimore and has been fishing with a fly rod for nearly 30 years. He won a national broadcasting award for a radio documentary about his home waters, the Gunpowder River, north of Baltimore. He has fished extensively in western Maryland and Pennsylvania, and in the Chesapeake Bay.
