This Land: Where Two Rivers Converge and Two Histories Divide (NY Times)
From The New York Times:
By Dan Barry (This Land - Dan Barry takes readers behind news articles and into obscure and well-known corners of the United States); Published: May 20, 2007
Dan Barry writes of the dilemma of Cairo, Illinois, "... defined as much by its proud and shameful history as by its position at the confluence of the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers. Since it entices visitors with billboards celebrating selected points of historical interest, it must endure the painful questions that arise from glancing beyond those selected points....."
http://select.nytimes.com/2007/05/20/us/20land.html?ref=us
By Dan Barry (This Land - Dan Barry takes readers behind news articles and into obscure and well-known corners of the United States); Published: May 20, 2007
Dan Barry writes of the dilemma of Cairo, Illinois, "... defined as much by its proud and shameful history as by its position at the confluence of the Mississippi and Ohio Rivers. Since it entices visitors with billboards celebrating selected points of historical interest, it must endure the painful questions that arise from glancing beyond those selected points....."
http://select.nytimes.com/2007/05/20/us/20land.html?ref=us
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