Mississippi Watershed Map
Mississippi River Map
TRACKS documentary: Secrets of the Mississippi / The River that MadeAmerica
Huck Finn's Course down the Mississippi
Yoknapatawpha County drawn by W. Faulkner, 1946 Cultural and Geographic Regions of Mississippi State
Faulkner's home region: Oxford, Lafayette County
William Faulkner's fictional maps of Yoknapatawpha: http://faulkner.iath.virginia.edu/media/resources/DISPLAYS/FaulknerMapsHP.html
Langston Hughes,"The Negro Speaks of Rivers" (1920)
I’ve known rivers:
I’ve known rivers ancient as the world and older than the flow of human blood in human veins.
My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
I bathed in the Euphrates when dawns were young.
I built my hut near the Congo and it lulled me to sleep.
I looked upon the Nile and raised the pyramids above it.
I heard the singing of the Mississippi when Abe Lincoln went down to New Orleans, and I’ve seen its muddy bosom turn all golden in the sunset.
I’ve known rivers:
Ancient, dusky rivers.
My soul has grown deep like the rivers.
Nina Simone, "Mississippi Goddamn" (1965)
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