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This is Roald Tweet on Rock Island. If you come for a visit to our Mississippi Valley and want to bring a souvenir back to the relatives in Potosi, Wisconsin, here’s some advice. Avoid those cute ashtrays made in Taiwan that say, “Greetings from the Quad Cities,” or the bumper stickers that say, “Support mental health or I’ll kill you.” Instead, take a walk along some of the more out-of-the-way stretches of our Mississippi River, where the current has deposited a stash of old clam shells. With any luck, you’ll soon find one that resembles a Swiss cheese—with half-inch holes over the whole shell.

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