Sitting here thinking about how I've not been able to get out and get some good pictures lately, so I reach back in the archives for better weather.
Independence Day is less than six months away, folks. I don't know about you, but I'm looking forward to warmer weather, longer days and green hills. And going down by the river to get my head straightened out. The only bad thing is knowing I have to go home afterward.
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Well Jim--I like that you do this blog even though there doesn't seem to be too many people around. I find this to be the case with much of the places that people have set up on the internet that deals with things relating to the river we both love or the other rivers connected to the Ohio.
I don't care though--I love the river even though I am far from it now----at least for now anyway...at some point I hope to change that "the Good Lord Willing and the Creek Don't Rise" at some point in the not too distant future.
That it doesn't seem that all that many people care that much about the river---I kind of feel that I am like this great song from Jason Isbell : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N1HqfDQezy0 The last of my kind....
As I said in another comment--I plan to finally at some point run the whole river---and when I do--I plan to write about it---referencing several other books about the river--from the relative far past--both fictional and fiction---Afloat on the Ohio or On the Storied Ohio--the same book with different titles that came from a trip done by a man named Rueben Thwaites back in the late 1800s, the fictional book by Alan Eckert, That Dark and Bloody River and a more recent book, River Horse A Voyage Across America by William Least-Heat Moon--in that book if you don't know about it---he undertook in a 24' C-Dory powered by twin 45 hp Honda OBs that he started at the foot of Manhattan Island and as much as possible all across the breadth of the nation including the Ohio all the way to the Pacific Ocean.
I will do this as part of my working on an MFA in Creative Non-Fiction from Sewanne: The University of the South located down in Tennessee in their minimum residency program.
My goal prior to starting out is to locate and stop at as many of the places as possible that Thwaites has stopped at and wrote about.
The goal of the book would be to document what I find about the state of the river and its communities, the people who live on and around the river at the time of my trip.
There is one thing for sure, the river may not once be the center of attention it once was, but it still has many who are in some way connected to it that if nothing else--are "interesting" and the river and those people---still have a story to tell...
By the way--my name is Michael Garrity but I do prefer to go by "Mike." Since it seems that you like the river and have knowledge of it and more importantly really---about people who are "river rats"---you could help me find some interesting folks to talk with and interview when the time comes--either before, during or after I make that trip....
By the way--I found you thanks to the photos that you had posted up on the internet and they get included in the photo galleries that come up when an internet search is done of photos--in this case I was doing some information gathering about the Kanawha...
Well--enough--I can ramble on like a river likes to do----thanks and take care...
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