Captain Harold Schultz spread fingers the size of jumbo shrimp across a book of river maps. “Look-a-heah,” he said, his Louisiana drawl dripping off his words like gumbo. “See this bow?” He pointed at a narrow blue corona hugging a head-shaped hub of land. “That part of the rivah is known as the New Madrid Bend. The Mississippi passes through three states heah. I read about a guy farmed heah in Kentucky, his chil’ren went to school heah in Tennessee, an’ he banked ovah heah in Missouri!” … Back to Article
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