Susan Baur posed before a banner that reads, "2024 Boston Heroes Breakfast."
Susan Baur posed before a banner that reads, "2024 Boston Heroes Breakfast."
Susan Baur in the water with a dead snapping turtle resting on her kayak.
Susan Baur in the water with a dead snapping turtle resting on her kayak.
Susan Baur standing with a suitcase outside a building.
Susan Baur standing with a suitcase outside a building.
Susan Baur with three other women, cheering as they pull up a dirty blue toilet from the water.
Susan Baur with three other women, cheering as they pull up a dirty blue toilet from the water.
Susan Baur mid-stroke wearing a snorkeling mask.
Susan Baur mid-stroke wearing a snorkeling mask.
Susan Baur posed with two other women next to a kayak and a big of trash. All are in swimming gear.
Susan Baur posed with two other women next to a kayak and a big of trash. All are in swimming gear.
An older man in a suit smiling as he looks off to the left.
An older man in a suit smiling as he looks off to the left.

Named First Climate Resilience Hero by Massachusetts chapter of American Red Cross

Off to NYC to join Explorers Club

Peter in Chatham

Pulling the blue toilet out of a pond as member and founder of the Old Ladies Against Underwater Garbage

Pulling a dead snapping turtle out of the water

The original dive with two other swimmers in 2018

Swimming!

A retired psychologist who has published several books of clinical tales, including The Dinosaur Man: Tales of Madness and Enchantment from the Back Ward and Confiding: A Psychotherapist and Her Patients Search for Stories to Live By. More recently, she published four books in her The Turtle Sisters book series for children, and her other writings on turtles can be found in Griffith Review and Passager Journal. She is Founder of Old Ladies Against Underwater Garbage (OLAUG) and lives —and swims—on Cape Cod in Massachusetts.

Susan Baur

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