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They Called Us River Rats

Book-signing by Macon Fry -- Wed, May 18, 5:30pm -- at the Travelers Hotel in downtown Clarksdale -- with rare performance by mysterious river rat hermit, Jean du Fleuve

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May 16
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They Called Us River Rats" Book Review - French Quarter Journal

Wednesday, May 18th, 5:30pm Macon Fry: They Called Us River Rats — Book Signing at the Travelers Hotel, downtown Clarksdale, 3 blocks from Quapaw Canoe Company, in partnership with the Clarksdale Collective, and the University Press of Mississippi

PS: For future reference: we will keep signed copies as one of our in-stock items at the Quapaw Canoe Company gift shop (AKA Mississippi River Interpretive Center, glass wall location at 3rd & Sunflower)

They Call Us River Rats' - American Press, 5/16/2021
From your pals at Travelers Hotel and Quapaw Canoe Company:

They Called Us River Rats: The Last Batture Settlement of New Orleans is the previously untold story of perhaps the oldest outsider settlement in America, an invisible community on the annually flooded shores of the Mississippi River.
This book is for everyone who ever felt the pull of the Mississippi River or saw its towering levees and wondered who could live on the other side.

Today, author Macon Fry is among the senior generation of “River Rats” living in a vestigial colony of twelve “camps” on New Orleans’s river batture, a fragment of a settlement that once stretched nearly six miles and numbered hundreds of homes. It is the last riparian settlement on the Lower Mississippi and a contrarian, independent life outside urban zoning, planning, and flood protection.

*Also: some unique river music, performed by the mysterious river rat hermit, Jean du Fleuve

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Steve bromley
May 16

👍🚣‍♂️🇨🇦

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Jenifer AD
May 17

Wish I were in Clarksdale for this fascinating event and not in France...but c'est la vie.

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