Search results for: Great River Road
Road Trip Through History: Lake Itasca State Park and the Headwaters of the Mississippi
As you know if you’ve been reading along, My Own True Love and I just drove a portion of the Great River Road. Several years ago we drove the southern leg of the road, traveling south from Memphis to the point on the Gulf where the road dead-ends in chain link fences and industrial parks…
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From the Archives: Lincoln’s Greatest Case–Sort Of
Brian McGinty (The Oatman Massacre) uses his skills as both attorney and historian in Lincoln’s Greatest Case: The River, The Bridge and The Making of America. In May, 1856, the steamboat Effie Afton hit a pillar of the Rock Island Bridge–the first railroad bridge across the Mississippi. Both steamboat and bridge caught fire. The Effie…
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Road Trip Through History: The Things We Missed
For those of you who are coming in late, My Own True Love and I went on an adventure this fall: three weeks on the Great River Road. We spent two days in Memphis, three days in New Orleans, and then drove north along the Mississippi without a schedule,* stopping at anything that caught our…
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