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Woodie Walker \u201818 would not go back to school. Not at 50. Certainly not now that he was a grandfather with a job he loved. That tide had gone out two decades ago, when he left college with two semesters standing between him and a fisheries degree.<\/p>\n

But that\u2019s the thing about tides. They come back in.<\/p>\n

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History major Woodie Walker, community conservationist for Friends of the Rappahannock, teaches UMW student Celeste Wilson river safety techniques. Walker will graduate this May — 25 years after starting college for the first time. Photo by Alex Sakes.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

If anybody knew that, it was Walker. The son of an eco-conscious sportsman, he grew up fishing the rivers of South Hampton Roads. He traipsed through woods, identifying birds and catching snakes and lizards. But mostly it was the water he was drawn to \u2013 the Chowan and the Blackwater and the Nottoway Rivers.<\/p>\n

He\u2019d helped found Virginia\u2019s first Riverkeeper program to protect the rivers he loved. He\u2019d restored trout habitat in West Virginia as an AmeriCorps volunteer.<\/p>\n

Finally, five years ago, he\u2019d landed in Fredericksburg, on another river, working as a community conservationist for Friends of the Rappahannock<\/a>. He taught fishing lessons and organized trips and recruited new members. He took on dozens of UMW interns and volunteers. If a student needed an outdoor classroom, if a professor wanted to survey birds from a kayak, Walker found them a place.<\/p>\n

Maybe, he thought, UMW could find a place for him.<\/p>\n

It was daunting, of course. More daunting than the rapids he maneuvered along the Rappahannock.<\/p>\n

\u201cThink about going back to college at 50,\u201d Walker said. \u201cWith a bunch of 20 year olds.\u201d<\/p>\n

But things aren\u2019t always what they seem on the surface.<\/p>\n

He signed up for his first class in 2014, paying for it with tuition money from AmeriCorps. The next semester, he took a second one. He declared as a history major.<\/p>\n

The school was small enough not to get lost in, small enough that the faculty invested in every student.<\/p>\n

He never felt out of place, he said. \u201cI always felt good.\u201d<\/p>\n

This May, Walker will collect his bachelor\u2019s degree \u2013 25 years after he started. He\u2019ll also leave something behind.<\/p>\n

Walker was sitting at the FOR headquarters in a building on the Rappahannock when he took the course-altering call.<\/p>\n

The man on the line was a 90-something-year-old from King George County who\u2019d spent his life on the river, first as a boy during the Depression and then as a commercial fisherman. He knew everything there was to know about that body of water.<\/p>\n

It occurred to Walker then that there was no official record of stories from people like him. Walker took the idea to Jason Sellers, a history professor who taught an environmental history class.<\/p>\n

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When Woodie Walker ’18 (left) wanted to do an oral history project about life on the Rappahannock, he went to UMW history professor Jason Sellers. With the support of the university, they made the project a reality. Photo by Alex Sakes.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In the two years since, with the support of Sellers and the rest of UMW\u2019s History and American Studies faculty and with Walker at the helm, FOR has created Life Along the Rappahannock: An Oral History Project<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The audio-visual documentaries, which include five interviews so far, are the latest project in a longstanding partnership between the university and FOR. They tell stories of conservation and preservation, of floods and spiritual connections. They document in great detail the 2004 removal of the Embrey Dam, which transformed the ecology of the river.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s unique. It hasn\u2019t been done before,\u201d Sellers said. \u201cIt\u2019s a chance to encourage students to do history.\u201d<\/p>\n

Three UMW students \u2013 Nancy Milroy \u201817, Matt Griffiths \u201818 and now Janelle Behm \u201818 \u2013 have played vital roles on the project, from securing grants for the project to conducting and filming interviews.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWoodie has been especially good about taking our experiential learning students and giving them something to do,\u201d said biology department chair Andrew Dolby. \u201cStudents are inspired by him. He\u2019s extremely enthusiastic and interested in everything. He\u2019s intellectually curious and enthusiastic not only about learning but helping and serving.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

For Walker, the oral history project is all of those things.<\/p>\n

\u201cI hope someday, some researcher accesses our work and it adds to their story,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

As for Walker\u2019s story, it\u2019s fluid. The college degree that once seemed like a personal accomplishment may now be a stepping stone to something more.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think I\u2019m interested in a graduate degree,\u201d Walker said. \u201cThe faculty at UMW have given me the confidence to think maybe I can do this.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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