Daily Freeman – 4.7.18 – “Austin “Mac” Francis, author of “Catskill Rivers and Land of Little Rivers,” and Bethia Waterman, cofounder of the Angling Collection, will describe how sporting clubs responded to the degradation of the environment in the late 19th century at a talk, “Sporting Clubs, Saviors of our Catskill Rivers,” from 1 to 3 p.m. Saturday, April 28, at the Phoenicia Library, 48 Main St. “