Nancy Langston opens her new book with the story of UW graduate student Maria, who enjoyed what would seem to be an idyllic Wisconsin childhood.
On Fridays her family ate the local catch at the tavern fish fry; on hot summer days they splashed in the waters of Green Bay, where the Fox River empties into Lake Michigan.Yet, as in the horror movie â??Jaws,â? under those waters lurked a terrible menace. Not a great white shark. Something potentially far more dangerous: toxic waste.
(Langston is an environmental historian at UW-Madison.)