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In 2001, journalist Jessica DuLong ditched her dot-com office job for the diesel motors of an rusty old-fashioned fireboat, the John J. Harvey, and the storied waters of the Hudson River. My River Chronicles: Rediscovering America on the Hudson explains to the story of this mechanic's daughter and Stanford graduate who possessed kept her blue-collar upbringing behind until the fireboat drew her back again, offering a chance to be an engineer and a preference of home she hadn't noticed she was absent.
The additional time DuLong put in toiling in the engine motor room, jogging the boat's finely crafted equipment, a lot more she pondered what America is shedding in our shift from handson work. These questions crystallized in the aftermath of the September 11, 2001, problems, when the FDNY called the retired fireboat back into service, and DuLong and the rest of the boat's civilian staff pumped water to deal with blazes at Ground No. As blue-collar staff clambered on the pile, DuLong was struck by the dignity of physical labor and the honor of experiencing joined the world of skilled labor whose abilities were useful at the website.
DuLong brings her two worlds vibrantly alive in this beautifully written memoir that evokes the vitality of NY City's bygone working waterfront and the Hudson River, a birthplace of American industry. Mixing four centuries of Hudson River record with memorable present-day people and occurrences, DuLong offers a porthole-view narrative of the river and its own sociable tapestry as a microcosm of postindustrial America. As she tracks changes along the shoreline, where commercial sites cave in to recreational respites, a special event of American labor and craftsmanship emerges. While looking along the river's edge for the meaning of work in the us, DuLong compensates homage to our industrial past and boosts important questions about the near future as of this pivotal moment in our national history.
My River Chronicles is a quest with an extraordinary guide, a woman who bridges blue-collar and white-collar worlds and transforms a expression as deftly as she does indeed a wrench. Soulful and illuminating, My River Chronicles is a deeply personal history of a distinctive woman's discovery of her own origins -- and America's -- as she operates the fireboat's diesels on the ever-changing river that flows both ways.
