The Nashua River serves as the focal point of an investigation of the treatment of and care for natural resources. A reading of A River Rand Wild: An Environmental History by Lynne Cherry, launches the study and class members consider...

Young scholars examine the efforts of Marion Stoddart to form the Nashua River Clean-Up Committee. They participate in a role-play of people involved in the formation of the committee and townspeople affected by the river, and act out...