Visions

Diane Wilson has contributed to Visions as an author.Diane Wilson a fourth-generation shrimper began fishing the bays off the Gulf Coast of Texas at the age of eight. By twenty-four she was a boat captain. In 1989 while running her brothers fish house at the docks and mending nets she read a newspaper article that listed her home of Calhoun County as the number one toxic polluter in the country. She set up a meeting in the town hall to discuss what the chemical plants were doing to the bays and thus began her life as an environmental activist. Threatened by thugs and despised by her neighbors Diane insisted the truth be told and that Formo