THE YANGTZE RIVER’S THREE GORGES DAM

(The world’s largest hydroelectric dam, completed in June, 2003)

 

WILL BE THE TOPIC OF A LECURE BY

 

DEIRDRE CHETHAM

 AUTHOR OF

 

Before the Deluge:

 The Vanishing World of the Yangtze’s Three Gorges

 

 

Deirdre Chetham, Executive Director of Harvard University’s Asia Center (and a life-long summer resident of Provincetown), will discuss the impact of China’s Three Gorges Dam on the people and environment in the reservoir region one year after the waters began to rise.

 

 

Tuesday, July 21, 8 PM

Wellfleet Public Library,

55 West Main Street, Wellfleet

508-349-0310

 

Presented by the Truro Center for the Arts at Castle Hill

508-349-7511