Decade - 1970s Congress narrows down where it wants to spend a bunch of money to two options: 1) an "Energy Island" for NYC moving the production of electricity out to the NY Bight and protected all in one place, and 2) a Barge Canal in Mississippi, connecting the canals of Mobile, Alabama on the Gulf of Mexico with the straightened Tombigbee River in "'ole MS" with the Tennessee River there as the feeder. The idea is if the Old Man River gets dry or floods, as it has, (some say because of human mis-engineering by once ACE now COE - Army Corps of Engineers) the alternative Tenn-Tombigbee Barge Canal, flowing through Tennessee Williams' hometown of Columbus, MS, would allow the local economy and the national economy another way of transporting bulk. I worked on the archaeology of the second choice at the Waverly Plantation Ferry Landing and the Bay Springs Access, during the wettest year then on record. It was prophetically said by Dr. Martin Luther King who said one day MS would be leveled. It has both to create the canal and by the Republican "telephone" voter registration drive, cold called from lists, which as I recall if you agreed to have a registration card sent and did not reply you were automatically registered as a Republican or something, a questionable practice brought up by some in the press who also reported the largest single landowner in Mississippi is the Queen of England!
By: arielman on May 07, 2007 at 12:33pm at Bill Maher's blog at Huffington Post who was on "Charlie Rose" today on PBS.
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