1. A Story Not Worth Telling Roald Tweet 2:47

This is Roald Tweet on Rock Island. The following story about the Mississippi River is not worth telling. Unlike those river events that make the six o’clock news and bring Presidents and politicians running with promises of relief: floods that shut down River Drive or breached levees, swallowed farms and towns or washed away bridges.

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