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Burlington, Iowa, was my destination. Kennedy Smith, director of the National Trust's Main Street program, said I'd find what I was looking for in this 167-year-old railroad town of about 27,000 built along the banks of the Mississippi and once known as Catfish Bend. I would eventually get there, but I got sidetracked. Eighteen miles to the south, I came upon the town of Fort Madison (pop. 11,618) and liked what...
...Drugs, a family operation since 1940. Across the street at Faeth's, the third, fourth and fifth generations of the Faeth family catered to customers in a cigar shop where you can sip a cold Pabst for a buck, buy a box of shotgun shells, find out where the catfish are jumping, play a game of billiards or drop the kids off for a soda and know they're safer than if you'd tied them to a tree. Just up Avenue G., Patty Tucker, a 66-year-old widow who moved down off the bluffs and into an incredible...
...skyline. Barely under way, we were summoned to the dining car and ensconced in a cushy booth with white linen tablecloth and fresh flowers opposite Gloria and Gary Pothast, a couple from Duluth, Minn. Stephan, between bantering and chuckling, confided that his favorite on the menu was the blackened catfish (prepared fresh in the galley below, unlike the reheated frozen food we had eaten on the Lake Shore Limited). While not up to the best of New Orleans cuisine, it was real Cajun cooking. Lesson No. 3: Train food usually beats plane food...
Between breakfast and lunch, the landscape turned swampy. I was fascinated by the strange rectangular pools bordered by skinny strips of land. They were catfish ponds. They soon gave way to fields of bright green grass alternating with patches of cotton stubble. Nearing Yazoo City, Miss.--our second stop after Memphis, with six more to go--we watched folks hanging out on their stoops, kids playing, pickup trucks winding along two-lane country roads. To this untutored Yankee, it was a first glimpse of what I had known only from fiction and song, from Flannery O'Connor to Hank Williams...
...this so-called blue revolution may not reach U.S. shores for a while. Although gene scientists in the U.S. have been tinkering with a variety of marine creatures--not only salmon and trout but also carp, catfish, tilapia and shrimp--these efforts are drawing criticism similar to that directed at genetically modified foods. Opponents, who complain about the fertilizers and other pollutants released into coastal waters by the fish farms, are especially concerned about the potential impact on the gene pool. They note that domesticated fish regularly escape from their pens into the wild and breed with native stocks, upsetting...