MISSISSIPPI - MAPS, FACTS, MYTHS

 

                                                                   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)