Pat Scanlon-Author Book Talk- Casting and Mending: How Therapeutic Fly Fishing Heals Shattered Minds and Bodies
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Casting and Mending: How Therapeutic Fly Fishing Heals Shattered Minds and Bodies tells the story of several of these programs, including the voices of breast cancer patients, veterans, and recovering addicts as they reflect on the often life-changing and life-affirming experience of fly fishing. Casting and Mending also traces fishing in history and popular culture as a source of solace and redemption; explores the science of the healing effects of nature; and makes a case for fly fishing as an instance of “flow,” an optimal experience that leaves a person stronger, more confident, and refreshed.
Jim Memmott from the Democrat and Chronicle calls the book “fascinating and inspiring” - Democrat and Chronicle
Pat Scanlon is a professor emeritus in the School of Communication at Rochester Institute of Technology, where he taught for thirty-three years. He has published on a variety of topics, from Elizabethan literature to plagiarism to fiber optics. His recent articles on local history and fly fishing have appeared in several magazines, including 585. An avid fly fisherman, he volunteers as a river helper for Casting for Recovery, which offers free retreats for women with breast cancer. He lives in Rush, New York, with his wife, Joanne.
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