Did anyone watch the much-touted "Atchafalaya Houseboat" on PBS Sunday?

[DemoTex]

I missed it. But I just finished Gwen Roland's book Atchafalaya Houseboat, with photos by C.C. Lockwood (just as Gustav hit Plaquamine Parish). I'm tellin' ya'! I've crossed the Atchafalaya dozens of times on I-10 and many, many more at 35,000' on J-37 (or whatever). I have always wanted to live there. I had a pilot buddy who lived in Beaux Bridge, La., on the Atchafalaya. It is an ineluctable desire of mine to live there, in the Atchafalaya Swamp, crazy as it is.

My favorite aunt .. my late mother's oldest sister .. lived in a swamp (but under better conditions) in Alabama. I loved that place (the "Bill D Quarter" (640/4 = 160 acres)) .. and still do. She, the aunt, was educated at Vasser. Last I saw her she was slopping hogs at the Bill-D-Q, at age 88 in 1988. I have a group of short stories shopped-out about aunt Hallie and the Bill-D-Quarter.

Gwen Roland is now in my home-country .. the piney woods near Zebulon, Georgia (according to the book cover). She works where my dad used to work, at the University of Georgia Experiment Station (now called the U of Ga Griffin Campus).

It's a great book. I am waiting for the re-runs of the documentary. Got some hippie in you? Dig this book!

Mac

[Prefer]

1. That banner made browsing over a termserve nearly impossible

for several weeks.
Every god damn DU page load and it would have to blast all that moving graphic over the connection.

Good riddance to that!

[DemoTex]

2. That does little to answer my question, Prefer.

But thanks for you your opinion based on nothing.

Next?

[5X]

3. I watched it and it was excellent.

If you have a chance, see it.

(from an old hippy from way back)

[cobalt1999]

4. Read: Shantyboat: A River Way of Life by Harlan Hubbard

This guy lived like hippies floating down the Ohio & Mississippi and then into the swamps way back in the early 1950's.

Growing their own food at stops along the way, building the boat themselves, painting, writing, and all in a time that could not make any sense of them.

Amazing book and you'll love it.