Happy When Curious
My name is Brady Ryan and I am a sea salt farmer on San Juan Island in Washington State. Ever since I was a child I have felt like my main skill was not that I was smarter or stronger or harder working or braver than anyone else, I was just a little more curious than the average cat. Since becoming a parent and trying to be a good husband and small business owner have taken so much of my energy and attention, I feel like this one superpower I have has fallen by the wayside. This podcast is my attempt to rediscover curiosity through conversation and contemplation. I will be alternating conversations with guests one episode with a short musing of my own the next. The musing episodes will allow me to try to explore ideas that I've heard or that I've come up with in an open ended way. My theory is that exploration is worth much more than answers and hopefully the interviews and the musings can live up to that principle.
Happy When Curious
Boyd Pratt: Ordinary people living through extraordinary times
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Brady Ryan
Today we are joined by historian and author Boyd Pratt. Boyd's previous three books about the San Juan Islands were Lime: Quarrying and Limemaking in the San Juan Islands, Island Fishing: History and Seascape of Marine Harvesting in the San Juan Islands amid the Salish Sea, and Island Farming: History and Landscape of Agriculture in the San Juan Islands. His newest book, which came out in 2024 is The Disputed Islands: Ordinary Life in Extraordinary Times in the San Juans 1850-1874.
