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Acclaim Press
(2014-11-01)
240 pages
$39.95 + Shipping
ISBN: 978-1938905636

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June 14, 2011 by Gayle Harper Leave a Comment

In the first 24 hours after I put up the post “Tell the Corps: Do The Right Thing!” 265 people read the blog post. Many have emailed me, saying they were planning to or already had written Mr. Pogue at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to encourage quick action on rebuilding the levee at Birds Point in Mississippi County, Missouri. People have posted links on their facebook and other social networking pages to encourage their friends and some have said “I will send this on to everyone I know.”

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Filed Under: 2011 Mississippi River Flooding, MO - East Prairie, MO - Mississippi County, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Tagged With: Birds Point Levee, Mississippi County Missouri Flooding, Mississippi River Flooding 2011, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

Tell the Corps: Do The Right Thing!

June 12, 2011 by Gayle Harper 1 Comment

This post will be longer than usual. I hope you will bear with me – there are some good people who could use your help. But first, some background.

Mississippi County, Missouri, is a place where many people’s roots go very deep. Unlike some agricultural communities where family farms have succumbed to wealthy corporations, many of the farmers here are working land that has been in their family for three or four generations. My friends Sam and Silvey Barker grew up in this county on land that was first cleared by their respective grandparents, long before the current system of levees and spillways existed.

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Filed Under: 2011 Mississippi River Flooding, MO - Bootheel, MO - East Prairie, MO - Pinhook Tagged With: Mississippi County Missouri Flooding, Mississippi River Flooding 2011, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

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