Posted on 12/08/2004 10:57:48 AM PST by cogitator
I saw a video on the History Channel a few years ago on this topic.
Seems like the Mississippi wants to divert to the Atchafalaya (sp) River. Probly would happen somewhere above Napeoleanville LA and come out at Morgan City.
This would be a total catastrophy and the only thing that can possibly stop it, temporarily, is lots of money.
It will happen tho, nothing humans can do will ever control Mighty Mississippi.
Here's a good resource:
http://gulfsci.usgs.gov/missriv/index.html
Tons more on the web.
Please let me clarify something VERY important:
The Mississippi Delta runs from the city of Vicksburg, MS, up to the lobby of the Peabody Hotel in Memphis, TN.
Any other land references staking claim to "the Mississippi Delta" are false.
She isn't referring to the State of Mississippi Delta. She's referring to the delta/wetlands created by the Mississippi River south of New Orleans.
She should have called it the Mississippi River Delta. There is a big difference.
Yes.
Hugh difference.
"She should have called it the Mississippi River Delta. There is a big difference."
Ah, yes. All true Delta folks know this.
Actually, I don't think it was Blanco who called it "the Mississippi Delta"--at least I didn't see that term in her linked article. It was the thread's poster who needed some learnin'........ :)
Hope you realize I was just having some fun (though to Delta people this really is vital :)
Truthfully, I appreciate your concern for this part of the country. Thanks for posting the article.
That's OK. I live near Frederick, MD. We frequently get confused with Fredericksburg, VA. Definitely not the same place.
BTTT!!!!!!!
Please explain to me what you mean about the Mississippi Delta. I understand the Mississippi River Delta.
Did you read my post #3?
The Mississippi Delta
Ride the blues highway
From the March 26, 2001 Issue of New York
It's been said many times that the Mississippi Delta begins in the lobby of the Peabody Memphis hotel. This historic haunt of Delta planters and boozy novelists is the perfect base for day trips throughout this storied pocket of the Deep South. Drive an hour south on Highway 61 to Clarksdale, Mississippi, home of the Delta Blues Museum, which provides maps to blues landmarks throughout the state. Early fall is the best time of year to catch a blues festival (the King Biscuit Blues Festival in Helena, Arkansas, is the first weekend in October, and Greenville's rollicking Mississippi Delta Blues Festival is in mid-September). Finding a nice restaurant among the cotton gins might seem as hard as tracking down the Soggy Bottom Boys, but actor Morgan Freeman recently opened the surprisingly chic Madidi in downtown Clarksdale. Twenty minutes north, in Dundee, is Uncle Henry's Place, a fine Louisiana Creole restaurant located in the old Moon Lake Casino, made famous by Tennessee Williams.
-- HUNTER KENNEDY
http://www.sanantonioblues.com/articles/archives/BluesVanishInDelta.htm
Quote taken from the above linked article:
"Still, there are good experiences to be had in the Delta. Geographically, the Delta is said to extend from the lobby of the Peabody Hotel in Memphis, down both sides of the Mississippi River for 200 miles to Vicksburg. In all of this area the only significant population centers are Greenville, with a population of 45,000 and Clarksdale with fewer than 20,000. Most other towns range in size from 200 or 300 to 2,000 or 3,000. Historically, bluesmen have migrated up the Delta to the way stations of Clarksdale or Helena, Arkansas to Memphis, and then to St. Louis, Chicago, Detroit, and the rest of the world. Because of this pattern, the northern Delta seems to have most of the places of interest. Unfortunately, most of the development and progress is also in that area."
Mississippi Delta Restaurant
"Located in the heart of Greenville, Does Eat Place has been dubbed the place where the best steaks in the world are served."
Link: http://www.doeseatplace.com/
"The Greenville Writers Exhibit, located at the William Alexander Percy Memorial Library, showcases the many renowned writers this community has produced, including Pulitzer Prize winners Shelby Foote and Hodding Carter, Jr., and novelists Ellen Douglas and Walker Percy. An exhibit honoring Muppet creator Jim Henson is located in nearby Leland. Kermit the Frog, who Henson said was Born on the banks of Deer Creek, is the focus of the exhibit. Henson was born in Greenville and reared on the banks of Deer Creek in Stoneville."
Link: http://www.greenvilleareachamber.com/recreation.htm
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