Title: 100 Years Later: Fox River Photo Canoe Trip
Speaker: Scott Johnson
In the summer of 1912 Dwight Young (Scott’s great-grandfather) and John Condon paddled a wooden rowboat down the lower Fox River, from Oswego to Ottawa. Along the way, Dwight, an aspiring photographer, captured 52 photographs of the surrounding landscape. 100 years later, in 2012, Scott and his family attempted to recreate the photographic canoe trip and relocate the locations that were originally documented in 1912. The comparisons between both trips provide great insight into how the Fox River has changed, and remained the same, throughout a century of human and natural forces.

Title: It's Our Fox River Day: A Watershed Wide Celebration
Speaker: Gary Mechanic

 In the spirit of The Fox River Summit, and Friends of the Fox River's goal to promote collaboration among all communities in the Fox River's watershed, we are encouraging local governments along the river, and throughout the watershed, to proclaim the 3rd Saturday in September "It's Our Fox River Day". The draft resolution (can be found here https://friendsofthefoxriver.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/08/IOFRD-Proclamation.pdf ) also pledges support for local efforts to clean up and celebrate the value and the place of the Fox River in our communities, and in our lives.