The Drought of Calawah
The drought of 1893 turned the Mississippi soil to dust and the Mississippi River to a brown ribbon of patience. It flowed past the Calawah plantation without stopping, without caring, the way rivers do when they have seen everything and decided that everything is worth seeing. Samuel Calawah sat on the porch of the decaying plantation house and watched the river. He was seventy-one years old,...
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