Tag: mississippi
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August 02, 2007 11:36 AM EDT --
I lived in Saint Louis. A friend from Texas was going to stop by to visit me on her way north to Minneapolis to live with her boyfriend. We all three knew each other from college. . . . more
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October 21, 2007 10:57 PM EDT --
My very excited 4 year old grandson and I went on an adventure last week and we crossed the Mississippi River on the ferry at Canton, MO. just below Lock and Dam No.20
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December 22, 2006 12:08 AM EST --
I have featured the article Going Back to Waveland by Faith H. in G.R.I.T.S. (Girls Raised in the South). Please take the time to read this wonderful story. Salud,
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August 03, 2007 10:04 AM EDT --
Here's a bit from my drag queen ebook novel HIDDEN RIVER
http://www.chippewapublishing.com/
After attendance was taken, Tony snuck out of gym and hurried across the track to beeline it towards . . . more
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October 11, 2007 07:14 PM EDT --
Here are a few shots of HWY 90 in Biloxi taken approx 15 days prior to the devastion.
When we went back this year(and last)..I really missed these shops and sites.
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June 12, 2008 06:16 PM EDT --
The levees popped in Cedar Rapids this morning, flooding their downtown area. It's bad for them but may help by relieving some of the pressure on the towns (like mine) downriver. We are expecting a . . . more
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June 16, 2008 04:16 PM EDT --
Saturday and Sunday was spent getting our daughter and son-in-law out of their apartment in Hull, Illinois, a town that seems to be on the river's hit list, and moved them here and their things to . . . more
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December 09, 2007 12:19 AM EST --
I just returned from Mississippi, a nine hour drive from where I live. If you are interested, I have decided to post a few pictures.
Two years after Katrina, you can still see damage, construction . . . more
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September 02, 2008 10:21 PM EDT --
Our trip around Lake Pepin, a lake on the Mississippi River that's bordered by Minnesota on one side, and Wisconsin on the other, included some delightful villages in the Badger State. (For those . . . more
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January 20, 2008 06:38 PM EST --
The last election, Bush said he was going to have U.S. spent nuclear fuel shipped to Yucca Mountain where it could live for a million years out of our way. He had his own Congress for awhile . . . more
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May 12, 2006 01:46 PM EDT --
a collaborative butterfly cinquain by Cindy Tebo and Jana Bouma
Harvests
delta
time where cotton
is king and wal-mart bags
blow like tumbleweeds down lonely
highways
to north woods cabins Friday . . . more
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March 04, 2007 07:57 PM EST --
This afternoon as I crossed over the Franklin Avenue bridge I couldn't help but think of an article I had read this morning on Gather by Greg Schiller, titled "An Old School Cop". Part . . . more
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August 27, 2008 11:00 PM EDT --
I live on the Mississippi Gulf Coast and had a beachfront apartment in Gulfport when Katrina hit. Needless to say, my apartment was not there when I got back to it. All that remained of half the complex . . . more
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June 03, 2008 12:12 AM EDT --
I live in South Mississippi. When June rolls around, it brings with it 90+ degree heat. Another thing that follows the warm weather down here is snakes. They thrive in this climate. In fact, I ran over . . . more
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July 13, 2007 01:38 PM EDT --
Hidden River by Peter Joseph Swanson (that's me!!!)
http://www.chippewapublishing.com/
male witches, drag queens, high school vampires, oh my!
Click on the book cover . . . more
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October 12, 2007 08:12 AM EDT --
This fort was used in the Civil War by the Union Army. Here is a link from National Park service:
www.nps.gov/guis/extended/MIS/MHistory/Forts.htm hopefully this works.
I had gone here in Aug of . . . more
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October 26, 2007 06:02 PM EDT --
We spent a lovely weekend at Little Black Creek Water Park in Lumberton, Mississippi, for our second wedding anniversary. My husband, Jim, and I took my daughter and her best friend along and rented . . . more
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October 31, 2007 09:36 AM EDT --
Little Black Creek has a stocked pond called Lake Catch-A-Lot.
For a $3 per pole fee, you can fish to your heart's content. We got some live crickets for bait and took the . . . more
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June 15, 2008 10:49 PM EDT --
This is what the view from Lover's Leap in Hannibal, MO was in November of 2007:
This is what the view was yesterday:
This is what the view was this evening:
This is . . . more
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June 18, 2008 11:48 AM EDT --
My brother-in-law, Roy C . and I took some pictures of the flooded Mississippi River yesterday. I meant to write this yesterday, but I was just too tired.
Hannibal, MO:
There are . . . more
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