Prosek to speak to support Aspetuck Land Trust
Artist, angler and conservationist James Prosek will speak at the Aspetuck Land Trust’s Caryl and Edna Haskins Lecture on Tuesday, April 6, at 7 p.m. at the Westport Public Library.
In 2022 the Aspetuck Land Turst is focused on the acquisition of 19 acres of Easton’s South Park property adjacent to the Warner Anglers Preserve. The importance of this property next to the Mill River, a Class 1 trout stream, one of only nine in the state, is not lost on this year’s Haskins Lecture special guest speaker James Prosek, who was only 19 and a student at Yale when he published Trout: An Illustrated History.
Trout: an Illustrated History, (Alfred A. Knopf) featured seventy of his watercolor paintings of the trout of North America, and is widely recognized as having brought attention to the existence and plight of native trout. 11 books followed for adults and children alike including Art, Artifact, Artifice, (Yale University Art Gallery) Ocean Fishes, (Rizzoli) Bird, Butterfly, Eel, (Simon and Schuster Books) , Eels: An Exploration, from New Zealand to the Sargasso (Harper) and as well as articles for The New York Times and National Geographic Magazine.