• The Mighty Mississippi

  • Sep 17 2024
  • Length: 24 mins
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The Mighty Mississippi

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  • For more than two hundred years Americans have tried to tame the Mississippi River. And, for that entire time, the river has fought back.

    This week we present an episode of our sister podcast Outside/In.

    Journalist and author Boyce Upholt has spent dozens of nights camping along the Lower Mississippi and knows the river for what it is: both a water-moving machine and a supremely wild place. His recent book, “The Great River: The Making and Unmaking of the Mississippi River” tells the story of how engineers have made the Mississippi into one of the most engineered waterways in the world, and in turn have transformed it into a bit of a cyborg — half mechanical, half natural.

    In this episode, host Nate Hegyi and Upholt take us from the flood ravaged town of Greenville, Mississippi, to the small office of a group of army engineers, in a tale of faulty science, big egos and a river that will ultimately do what it wants.

    Featuring Boyce Upholt

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