We are fortunate to live and learn within view of Long Island Sound. In this interdisciplinary, experiential, place-based course, students will conduct field research and use writing, photography, and video to document the Copps Island Oyster operation, a vital part of the living history of Long Island Sound. Students will meet, interview, write about, and photograph oyster farmers, commercial fishermen, and scientists. Much of the work will take place near GFA and may include trips to some of the Sound’s islands, salt marshes, and local institutions. Spend a day out on an oyster boat or working side-by-side with shuckers and sorters; record oral histories of people like the Long Island Soundkeeper, Norm Bloom (the founder of Copps Island Oysters), and “Lobster Mike,” the last lobsterman in the western Sound; study the intersection of local ecology and history. Throughout, our focus will be on finding, gathering, and presenting the vivid natural and human stories of our remarkable body of water.