LMRR'12 Dispatch #1

Copyright © 2012 Bob R Bogle



Lower Mississippi River Run 2012 (LMRR'12), another expedition through time and space, is now entering its final planning stages.

A peripatetic adventure Ulysses-style, with Grant and Sherman, and cypress stands and ancient oaks and Spanish moss and Acadians, and Samuel R Curtis and Earl Van Dorn and scrapes with NB Forrest, and riverboats, paddleboats, steamers, and Elvis and legendary train wrecks, and wrought iron balconies, and Cajun food and salt water vistas and ghosts and voodoo and captured incendiary political documents, and Ohio flatboat floaters, and battles and plantation houses and bayous and monuments and memorials and cemeteries, and riverboat gamblers, and ruins and swamps, and Highway 61 down the middle of it all, and miles of causeway, and William Faulkner and crucial railroad junctions and swallowed up fortresses and Tennessee Williams, and cotton and jazz and the blues and assassination sites, and starving Vicksburg cave dwellers, and slaves and freemen and slave owners and traders and contraband camps, and alligators, and belles burying their pots and pans under ponds, and WWII veterans, and interned Japanese Americans, and the Chickasaw and Chocktaw nations, and Andrew Jackson and Jeff Davis, and James Audubon, and fall colors, and rivers galore:  watch this space for updates in the coming weeks.