02745cam a22003733u 4500 77074 UtSlPG 20260610134803.0 m cr n 260607r20251959utu|||||o|||||||||||||| d UtSlPG en iso639-1 QL Hay, John, 1915-2011 The run First edition Salt Lake City, UT : Project Gutenberg, 2025 1 online resource : multiple file formats text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Release date is 2025-10-17 Steve Mattern and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) The Run by John Hay is a work of nature writing and natural history written in the mid-20th century. It explores the spring migration of alewives on Cape Cod, weaving close observation with ecology, local history, and culture. Guided by a reflective narrator and figures such as a blunt, protective herring warden, it portrays the fish’s sea-to-pond journey, its perils, and its long ties to human communities. The opening of this work follows the narrator’s March vigil at Brewster’s Herring Run on Stony Brook, moving from raw “waiting weather” and a watchful muskrat to the first lone alewife and then the mass run. He introduces Harry Alexander, the warden, and shifts between scene and context: the anadromous life cycle, age and size patterns, and the fish’s historical place from Indigenous agriculture and Pilgrim survival to smokehouses, weirs, and today’s lobster-bait trade. Vivid set pieces show crowded ladders, fatal leaps at an impassable chute, and gulls thronging the valley, while chapters mix anatomy and senses with puzzling questions of homing, ocean whereabouts, and environmental cues. He traces the brackish plume at Paine’s Creek, witnesses night entries under gull-filled skies, then a brutal daylight hunt where hundreds of gulls intercept fish on the ebb, and concludes with the fish’s back-and-forth ascent at the estuary threshold as salt gives way to fresh. (This is an automatically generated summary.) Originally published: Garden City, New York: Doubleday & Company, Inc., 1959 Cape Cod (Mass.) Natural history -- Massachusetts -- Cape Cod Alosa pseudoharengus Fishes -- Migration Grose, David, 1922-2016 https://archive.org/details/run00hayj_0/page/n5/mode/2up https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/77074 117798 117798