CALLING IT HOME

A Short Period of Time with Long Term Issues
  • CALLING IT HOME
    CALLING IT HOME
  • This photo is of a Tarpon caught in Lake Pontchartrain in September 1951. The man next to the tarpon is only identified as Oswald, and was aboard a 15 foot long Vee Hull with a 10hp outboard when he managed to catch the tarpon. Oswald was 6'4' tall to help put the length of the fish in perspective. The Trapon weighted 198 pounds.
    This photo is of a Tarpon caught in Lake Pontchartrain in September 1951. The man next to the tarpon is only identified as Oswald, and was aboard a 15 foot long Vee Hull with a 10hp outboard when he managed to catch the tarpon. Oswald was 6'4' tall to help put the length of the fish in perspective. The Trapon weighted 198 pounds.
    Yes, the Mississippi River is the lifeline of much for the United States. It was the great river that the indigenous people knew and named by the Algonquin in their language. The river served as the liquid path the French explorers used to discover the New World. We still know the river as the Mississippi River but the final ending body of water the Gulf of Mexico has been renamed Gulf of Ameri...

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