Note to self for the next book: the Delta is not a melting pot, - TopicsExpress



          

Note to self for the next book: the Delta is not a melting pot, like what was conceived of at Ellis Island for all the immigrants that came in at the end of the 19th century. Rather, with its waves of immigrants from Germany, Sicily, Italy, Greece, Mexico, China... It more resembles the mud of the Mississippi alluvial plain: soft, almost indistinguishable layers atop even more layers of French, English, African, Native American, a slurry of cultured tilled together on a land where the topsoil is 200 feet deep, where the fallow ends burn in fire and the people are sun scorched, a vast sweeping flat broken only by the spine of Crowleys Ridge, all equal but struggling in the mire to eek out a good life.
Posted on: Sat, 23 Nov 2013 20:50:44 +0000

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