Location: CSWS Lyceum (Room 120)
Free and open to all!
Librarian by trade and angler at heart, Shelley Walchak gravitated towards fly-fishing later in life and was inspired in 2012 to leave her post at the Colorado State Library to take up the challenge of fishing a river a week for an entire year. Seven Rocky Mountain states and 52 rivers later, Shelley released her book 52 Rivers in 2014, documenting her adventures and life-lessons learned along the way. Now, over a decade later, Shelley is still traveling and angling and is ready to share an epilogue to 52 Rivers, which at its core is about chasing dreams, embracing the unknown, and finding inner joy along the way.
Shelley Walchak retired after a 40-year career in libraries, serving as director of the Pine River Library District (Bayfield, CO) and senior consultant with the Colorado State Library (Denver, CO). She currently serves as board secretary of Maria’s Literary Foundation and board president of the Southwest Colorado Humanities Roundtable History Live! event series, as well as traveling and fishing every chance she gets.