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Post by jdd2 on May 30, 2022 7:27:42 GMT -5
...is not new. It's one of the three oldest rivers in the world, about 300 million yrs old--which is older than any mammal.
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Post by drlj on May 30, 2022 10:24:39 GMT -5
I grew up near Deep River which was so shallow a person could walk across and barely get his knees wet.
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Post by Dub on May 30, 2022 14:24:41 GMT -5
...is not new. It's one of the three oldest rivers in the world, about 300 million yrs old--which is older than any mammal. |
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Post by coachdoc on May 30, 2022 18:20:15 GMT -5
I grew up near Deep River which was so shallow a person could walk across and barely get his knees wet. Did you get the blues? Lost your hat? |
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Post by Village Idiot on May 30, 2022 21:03:08 GMT -5
I grew up on the Skunk River. You could wade across it, and the fishing wasn't bad.
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Post by Dub on May 30, 2022 23:20:49 GMT -5
I grew up on the Skunk River. You could wade across it, and the fishing wasn't bad. North Branch or South Branch? On edit: Oh, of course it had to be the South Skunk River. Never mind. |
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Post by jdd2 on May 30, 2022 23:50:23 GMT -5
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Post by Dub on May 31, 2022 10:25:50 GMT -5
My father was raised in Elkhart, IA, just west of the South Skunk River. He and his brother used swim in the Skunk as kids at a place called Carny Ford. Fifty years later, he would sometimes use Carny Ford as a pen name when he wanted to sell some of his quips. Another name he sometimes used was Skunk River Sage. Most of his quips were sold by the Register and Tribune Syndicate as The Country Parson.
Carny Ford no longer exists. There is a long stretch of the South Skunk River that is perfectly straight. When you see that using Google Earth it looks like it was artificially straightened for some reason and I’m guessing that straightening did away with Carny Ford.
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