I sent your column and your recommend for Pelletier's book to a friend who lives in Maine. She said she's read others of Pelletier's works, and now has this one on her to-be-read list. Thanks!
I can't remember if I've asked you, but: have you read John McPhee's <i>The Control of Nature</i>? His essay on the Atchafalaya and Mississippi, and the various attempts to contain and control them, was fascinating. I'm fascinated by the Atchafalaya myself, and have spent some time there -- although my gr-gr-grandfather got there first. His regiment, the 34th Iowa, was given the task of marching Confederate prisoners through there during the Civil War. That's when they lost most of their men: from disease, rather than from military combat.
I sent your column and your recommend for Pelletier's book to a friend who lives in Maine. She said she's read others of Pelletier's works, and now has this one on her to-be-read list. Thanks!
I can't remember if I've asked you, but: have you read John McPhee's <i>The Control of Nature</i>? His essay on the Atchafalaya and Mississippi, and the various attempts to contain and control them, was fascinating. I'm fascinated by the Atchafalaya myself, and have spent some time there -- although my gr-gr-grandfather got there first. His regiment, the 34th Iowa, was given the task of marching Confederate prisoners through there during the Civil War. That's when they lost most of their men: from disease, rather than from military combat.