Small Business, Land Use, the Federal Government, and Oysters

Show #101, Hour 2 | Guest: Summer Brennan was born to parents living in a houseboat on the San Francisco Bay. She has written for magazines and newspapers throughout the country and works regularly with the United Nations in New York on issues related to decolonization, disarmament, human rights and the environment. As an undergraduate at Bennington College she studied poetry with Mary Oliver. Later she took her master’s from the New York University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences where her work focused on media, journalism and the Middle East. The Oyster War is her first book. | Show Summary: Summer Brennan dissects the polarization of her home town in Marin County, California over the battle of a local ranching family to run their newly acquired Oyster Farm near a protected Wilderness Area.