Bootheel Book Features Stoddard/New Madrid counties
Ever wonder what it was like, as a five year old in 1905, to float into the Bootheel swamp in a Jon boat, with panthers and bears lurking in the woods? At age 112, Florence Robinson Poe, shared in my forthcoming book about swamp life. The book chronicles school days at Cline Island School, and the Harlan boys who helped guide people through the swamp leading from Cline's Island to Salcedo.
It also highlights the morning "Sunshine" train that ran from Poplar Bluff, through Dexter, Essex, Gray's Ridge and Morehouse to the Mississippi River.
The recent Fourth of July brought to mind Canalou, Mo.'s last old wild west style "shoot-out,knife-fight" on July 4, 1953. The fight started over which area farmer had the "first cotton bloom" that year. Neither combatant owned a clod of dirt. Fortunately, both combatants survived.
Being published through the History Preservation Center of Southeast Missouri State University, plans call for the book to be published in either July or August this summer. As author of the book, I'll be announcing book signings in Dexter and Morehouse.
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