THE SOUTHERN ASH
I The water came in 1927, and it did not go. It was not a flood in the ordinary sense—a seasonal rise of the Mississippi that peaked and receded. It was something worse: a permanent transformation of the landscape, caused by a geological event that no one could explain. The water table shifted. Subterranean aquifers breached the surface. The Delta, once flat and fertile and covered in cotton,...
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