HISTORY
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The Best of the 90’s Chicks
The 1990s were a great decade. Between the fashion trends - The Rachel, anyone? - and the dope tunes, you could say the 90s were all that and a bag of chips (if you so chose to keep circulating that lingo, that is). And there was one nineties staple that ...more
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Mountains and mounds
After the Easter trip to Mississippi, I ended up first in Sarasota, FL, at the Hermitage, then home to NYC for a minute, then back to Montalvo to retrieve my car and kayak and bike, and then I drove to northeastern Wyoming, where I am spending May at an...more
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Arbeit Macht Frei
When the sign Arbeit Macht Frei was stolen last week from the gates of the Auschwitz in Poland, millions of people all over the world realized that we had lost something much more. We had lost one of the most recognized icons of injustice and cruelty ev...more
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Mississippi River Project: Knowing it when you see it
The ferry at New Roads was closed, so I had to drive down to the bridge at Baton Rouge and then back up to St. Francisville, where I found an RV Park right next to the Audubon History Site and talked Bill the owner into letting me set up my hammock in t...more
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Mississippi River Project: Darkness in Vicksburg
It was a rainy and gray weekend, and I spent most of it at Poverty Point Reservoir State Park, doing some much needed housekeeping (my computer was misbehaving, laundry needed doing) at this quite wonderful spot that has free wifi and laundry and good s...more
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Mississippi River Project: Only a pawn in their game
It’s been a sort of strange and unfocused few days these days: I left the river to go to Jackson to meet up with a new fellow-traveler who got laid low with asthma at the last minute and had to cancel. Somehow the combination of being far from the riv...more
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Mississippi River Project: When the levee breaks
Monday morning, I drove down to Rosedale and headed first to the library, where Martha the librarian gave me an excellent orientation to the town and its history. Turns out this area was a big center for making moonshine during Prohibition — instead o...more
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Mississippi River Project: Starting Somewhere
We drove through Forrest City on the way to St. Francis National Forest because I was curious to see the town, which had been described to me as one of the most segregated places in America. The downtown is a ghost town almost on the level of Cairo, but...more
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Mississippi River Project: Land of cotton
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p>(Ed. Note: Artist (and good friend) Eve Beglarian is paddling, biking and hiking the length of the Mississippi River in search of musical inspiration. This is one in a series of journal entries.)
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Jim invited us to breakfast at Jen’s...more
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