Written by: Dan Besse
4/25/2007

Last Saturday's travels kept rolling into the late afternoon with a stop to speak at the Piedmont Earth Day Fair in Forsyth County. I enjoyed regaling the kids in the crowd with how I learned the difference between clean and polluted waters while growing up in Hickory. I remember the small branch nearest our house, where we could turn over rocks and watch the crayfish scuttle away. Then, there was the larger stream into which it flowed, where we kids also waded. However, that creek had the bad habit of turning different fancy colors (green, red, even purple) depending on what color the hosiery mill upstream was dying its socks that week. It was enough to instill a life-long appreciation for the value of well-enforced pollution control laws.

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