From Chicken to Eagle: Seven women paddling whitewater and navigating life

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Jesse Reeder

With matching power strokes, the bow of their yellow canoe knifed into the crest of the standing wave. Behind them, one at a time, three other boats entered the Class 4 Canyon Rapids, listed as unrunnable in open canoes.

From Chicken to Eagle is a story of seven courageous women who took a wilderness adventure at a time—1979—when women were testing their mettle in society and the outdoors. They accomplished things that were beyond their imaginations and comfort levels, on the river and across the next forty years. This hour-long presentation in the Anderson Room (lower level) features a brief slideshow, three authors readings from their chapters, and time for questions.