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My New Book Is Out
It’s now official. In a nice surprise at the mailbox today, I received an advance copy of my new book from LSU Press. Thanks for your support and interest in those who lived and labored on the Mississippi River and its tributaries in the era of Mark Twain and beyond. I believe their voices and…
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The River Gives Up Its Dead Slowly
By Gregg Andrews My mother was deathly afraid of the Mississippi River, but it was my playground as a child in the river village of Ilasco, Missouri. Try as she might, she couldn’t stop me from swimming in the river or fishing from its banks while she was trimming soles at a shoe factory in…
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Evil in the Delta
“Elaine, Elaine, that river’s deep and wide; the devil’s loose in the Delta tonight here on the Arkansas side.”
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On Growing Up in the Mississippi River Bottoms
By Gregg Andrews The Mississippi Valley Traveler caught up with me recently for an interview about my riverbank childhood in the Monkey Run bottoms south of Hannibal. We covered a range of subjects as I reflected on the role of the river as a shaping cultural influence on my writings, music, and life. I hope…
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Meet the Mississippi Valley Traveler and His New Podcast
I met Dean in the summer of 2013 when he came upriver to Hannibal to catch a show by Dr. G & the Mudcats in the sweltering heat at the Mark Twain Boyhood Home & Museum’s Music Under the Stars. It was the beginning of a friendship born of our mutual love for the Mississippi…
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Shantyboat Standoff Against Anheuser-Busch
“This is my home and I intend to defend it. All that it contains is the toil of years. If anyone attempts to pull my houseboat off without due process of law, I’ll kill the one who attempts it.”
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Abortion on Four Mile Island
“If your wife will listen to Ida you folks won’t have any more children.”
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Rose Etta Allan’s Fight for Her Children
“He and his wife said they loved the children as if they were their own, but I wanted them, they were mine, all I have in this world.”
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A Kentucky Shantyboat Baby
“From the shack he and mother moved to the shanty boat, so that he could make a living fishing. . . He was a Cherokee Indian and my mother was half-Seminole and half-black.”
Lost River Stories
Invisibles of the Mississippi Valley.
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