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 Stories About: green living AND Mississippi River AND placemaking
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Along the Mississippi: We're not in Seattle anymore
... or Kansas, for that matter |
Katharine Wroth |
23 Oct 2007 |
Gristmill |
| Here's what the sign says on the back of the bathroom door in our hotel: Hotel Laws of IowaFixing, Limiting, and Determining the Liability of Keepers of Hotels, Inns, Eating-Houses, and Steamboat Owners to Inmates Thereof.Sorry, was that ... steamboat owners? Holy crap. |
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| Topics: green living, placemaking, Mississippi River, Iowa (all these topics) |
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Along the Mississippi: Rollin' on the river
Grist pulls a Huck Finn |
Katharine Wroth |
22 Oct 2007 |
Gristmill |
| Grist is rollin' (rollin'!) on the river this week, and we're taking you with us. We're bound for the Mississippi -- the legendary waterway recently deemed an 'orphan' of the federal government. Just call us Sarah van Sawyer and Huckleberry Wroth.We've ventured here to find out how three cities are reinventing their once-industrial waterfronts, and how they're re-embracing the river. During the week's coverage, which is supported by the McKnight Foundation, we'll be ... |
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| Topics: green living, Mississippi River, placemaking (all these topics) |
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