Raines Highlights By the Bay Eastern Shore Speaker Series
Posted on March 25, 2024
The USA by the Bay Eastern Shore Speaker Series features a diverse range of lectures and performances by artists, scholars and industry experts at the University of South 麻豆果冻传媒 Baldwin County Campus in Fairhope. South鈥檚 new Environmental Fellow and Writer-in-Residence Ben Raines will present "Saving the Clotilda and America鈥檚 Amazon: A Prescription for South 麻豆果冻传媒鈥檚 Future鈥 on Thursday, April 4 at 5:30 p.m. A reception will follow.
This event is free and open to the public. Seating is limited at the USA Baldwin County Campus Performance Center. Registration is required at South麻豆果冻传媒.edu/SpeakerSeries.
Raines, best known for discovering the remains of the Clotilda, the last ship to carry enslaved Africans to the United States, recently joined the University of South 麻豆果冻传媒 as its first environmental fellow and writer-in-residence. Raines is a former reporter for Mobile鈥檚 Press-Register, and most of his stories emphasize the extraordinary biodiversity of the Mobile-Tensaw Delta.
At South, Raines works for the Stokes School of Marine and Environmental Sciences and the Stokes Center for Creative Writing, both named after Dr. Steven and Angelia Stokes for their support of the University.
Raines is also well-known for his documentary films such as 鈥淭he Underwater Forest鈥 and 鈥淪aving America鈥檚 Amazon,鈥 along with books such as 鈥淭he Last Slave Ship: The True Story of How the Clotilda Was Found, Her Descendants, and an Extraordinary Reckoning.鈥
This year, Raines plans to work on his novel and a memoir. He鈥檚 also in production on a new documentary, 鈥淭he Last Estuary,鈥 which focuses on Mobile Bay.
Archive Search
Latest University News
-
Class Act
A South education graduate draws on her theater experience to engage t...
October 16, 2024 -
South Lands Major Grant to Study Equity in STEM Education
Dr. Kathy Thompson secures a $2.7 million NSF grant to promote access ...
October 14, 2024 -
Supply Chain Resilience
Watch for price increases, but free markets can handle a dock workers...
October 2, 2024 -
Drafting Her Start
A civil engineering graduate crosses Mobile Bay to begin her career at...
September 30, 2024