Cover Art:
By Inland Waterways artist
Gary Lucy
www.garylucy.com
Front Cover:
“Lewis and Clark: The Departure from the Wood River Encampment, May 14, 1804”
Back Cover:
“Eating up the Lights: Marking the Channel for Safe Passage”
Big Muddy 2.1
Editor
Dr. Susan Swartwout
Assistant Editor
Dan Crocker
Publishing Interns
Rebecca Brown-Gregory
Leon Cluck
M'Lee Fife
Mandy Henley
Amy Kay
Editorial Assistants
Mary Jane Mills
Stacey Rollins
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Contents
Nonfiction
Nancy Bunge, Michigan
From La Crosse to Reality: The Blacklist’s Impact on Joseph Losey
Lynn Casteel, Missouri
The Heights
Robert Chappell, Wisconsin
We’re Homey. We’re Simple. But Don’t Call Us Quaint. (Please.)
Randy Cunningham, Ohio
Return to the River
Editors
Inland Waterways: The Highways of Our Heritage—An Interview with Gary Lucy
Anna Leahy, Missouri
Sunday Afternoon at the Barnes & Noble
John E. Miller, South Dakota
Laura Ingalls Wilder, A Perspective from 1932
Arthur J Stewart, Tennessee
Trickster Rules
Fiction
Rachel Hall, New York
Dreams of the Mundane
Felicia Swanson, Illinois
Undercurrents
Mary M. Wallace, Illinois
Local Landmarks and Points of Interest
Tammy Wilson, North Carolina
The Postcard
Photography/Artwork
Gerald Wheeler, Texas
Hawk
Tractor
Southern Comfort
Poetry
David Bond, Illinois
Hee Haw Hell
George L. Bristol, Texas
Ste. Genevieve
Maureen Tolman Flannery, Illinois
Coming to Crossing
G Timothy Gordon, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates
SHE
Michael A. Hoerman, Massachusetts
Wild Strawberries in Ozark County
Bradley Earle Hoge, Texas
Sinking into Shoveler’s Pond
Elizabeth Howard, Tennessee
Where the Rivers Run
Holly Iglesias, Massachusetts
Suffrage
Jarret Keene, Nevada
Voices from the Fire
Meat
John Cantey Knight, Louisiana
Mark Twain
Susanna Lang, Illinois
Spring Floods
Deena Linett, New Jersey
Holy Saturday in the Northern Plains
Sallie McCormick Adams, Missouri
Flood Song
Missouri Flood Rivers
Corey Messler, Tennessee
Life by the Mississippi
Kelby Ouchley, Louisiana
Coming Back
Elaine Fowler Palencia, Illinois
On the Greenway
Interlude for Horns
Carol J Pierman, Alabama
Hands Across America
David Radavich, Illinois
Inundation Rhapsody: Midwest 1993
Laurence Snydal, California
Storm Fence
The Circus
Virgil Suarez, Florida
Song of What Attracts the Bumble Bee to the Wisteria
Delilah Tayloe, Missouri
Hard Frost Tomorrow (Whitewater to Bloomfield)
Davi Walders, Maryland
Delta Currents
Fredrick Zydek, Nebraska
The Dangerous Art
Outside the Circle of Fire
Reviews
Curt Leitz reviews:
Younker, Richard. Yankin’ and Liftin’ Their Whole Lives: A Mississippi River Fisherman. Shawnee Books (Southern Illinois University Press), 2000. Nonfiction.
Larry Hamilton reviews:
Schneider, Barbara, and David Stevenson. The Ambitions Generation. Yale University Press, 1999. Nonfiction.
Jackie Kieres reviews:
Gribbin, John and Mary Gribbin. Stardust: Supernovae and Life: The Cosmic Connection. Yale University Press, 2000. Nonfiction.
Allen Gathman reviews:
Graves, Joseph L, Jr. The Emperor’s New Clothes: Biological Theories of Race at the Millenium. Rutgers University Press, 2001. Nonfiction.
Henry Azuma reviews:
Dalmage, Heather M. Tripping on the Color Line: Black-White Multiracial Families in a Racially Divided World. Rutgers University Press, 2000. Nonfiction.
Curt Leitz reviews:
Severs, Ron. One Good Story: A Mississippi Kayak Journey. Nodin Press (Micawber’s), 2000. 148 pp. with photographs by author. Nonfiction.
Susan Swartwout reviews:
Bass, Rick. Brown Dog of the Yaak: Essays on Art and Activism. Milkweed Editions, 1999. Nonfiction.
Susan Swartwout reviews:
Taylor, Helen. Circling Dixie: Contemporary Southern Culture through a Transatlantic Lens. Rutgers University Press, 2001. Nonfiction.
Stephanie Williams reviews:
Ng, Mei. Eating Chinese Food Naked. Washington Square Press, 1998. Fiction.
Rebecca Brown reviews:
Olsen, Lance. Sewing Shut My Eyes. Fiction Collective Two, 2000. Short Fiction.
M’Lee Fife reviews:
Levandoski, Rob. Serendipity Green. Permanent Press, 2000. Fiction.
Stacey Garcia reviews:
Koertge, Ron. Geography of the Forehead. University of Arkansas Press, 2000. Poetry.