Guest Blog submitted by Judi Blalock of the Mississippi River Corridor-Tennessee
I am what’s known as a transplant – not native to Memphis and the South! – and even more noticeably, as a “former Yankee”!! However, I am more than willing to admit that The River is what drew and kept me here.
Always a voracious reader, I was aware of the River’s impact on history and civilizing this portion of the country. However, I was totally unprepared for my first view of this magnificent resource — the scope, the grandeur, and the gritty realism of the commerce that moves up and down the water.
Now that I have a number of years with my River, it has become a part of me – an unending source of wonder, reflection, entertainment and education. Novels and history books did not do justice to the River experience.
Take it from a transplant – the activities that you attend, the time you spend on a bench just watching, the birds that congregate on its banks, and the friends that you make on or as a result of your relationship with the Mississippi River will enrich your existence.
River Park at Harbor Town, Memphis, TN; Photo Credit: Mississippi River Corridor–Tennessee
Judi Blalock
Mississippi River Corridor-Tennessee