Fannye Cook’s story is also a history lesson of state’s conservation efforts

Fannye Cook: Mississippi’s Pioneering Conservationist  – the biography of a Mississippi woman who cared deeply about her state and its natural history – reads like a funny piece of Mississippi fiction: a woman canoeing birds to shore, filing cabinet drawers full of dead specimens and helping Eudora Welty capture bats.
Dorothy Shawhan, Marion Barnwell and Libby Hartfield researched and recorded the life of Fannye Cook: avid bird watcher, author of Freshwater