Entries from Down Chicago’s Drain tagged with 'Mississippi River'
End of the Cruise
Majestic America Line, the company which owns the Mississippi River paddlewheeler Delta Queen has cancelled all cruises for the 2009 season. The company has been up for sale for the last year, with no buyers. The Delta Queen is...
Flushed down the Mississippi
Early yesterday morning an ocean-bound tanker rammed an oil barge on the Mississippi just upriver from New Orleans, spilling 400,000 gallons of heavy fuel oil. River traffic has been stopped on the river until the spill can be contained, but...
The Birdfoot
The Center for Land Use Interpretation in Los Angeles has a new exhibit and book entitled The Birdfoot which spotlights the geography of the Mississippi Delta where the river meets the sea. Near its mouth, the river splits into...
River Vagrants
Today Charles alerted me to an article in the March Harper's about a guy named Matt who is sailing a homemade boat down the Mississippi. What a silly idea! Who would have thought of that?? You have to be a...
Draining the bathtub
My aunt wrote to me about seeing a 'drawdown' of the Mississippi in Minneapolis today. The Army Corps of Engineers opened the floodgates of the dam just below St. Anthony Falls to drain the pool by 13 feet to...
Surrounded by Water
The Historic New Orleans Collection, a museum in New Orleans, currently has a fascinating exhibit about the geography of the city and its relationship to waterways. The exhibit and an accompanying film seem to be a plea for understanding...
End of the Mississippi
The Mississippi carries the most trade of any river in the world. I am most familiar with the upper reaches of the big river in Minnesota and Wisconsin, where barges are common enough. But after seeing the traffic on the...
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