Word: fishings
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Over the next century, Nauvoo became a sleepy, almost entirely Roman Catholic river burg, whose hot events were weekly Fish Fridays and Chicken Wednesdays. Its working men labored in nearby Keokuk, Iowa, but their number shrank relentlessly as young people left. "By the time I moved here 10 years ago, it was pretty close to a retirement community," says Kathy Wallace, editor of the 500-circulation Nauvoo New Independent. At one point the only grocery closed for half a year for lack of business. When the Latter-day Saints, who had been trickling back for years, bought land...
...fiscal conservatives dislike the federal subsidy the barges receive. They say any savings will benefit the barge companies, not the farmers. And environmentalists are concerned that bigger locks will bring more barges, killing more fish with their propellers and filling more backwaters with silt. "It's amazing how clear the river water is in the winter when barge season is over," says Dan Specht, who grows 800 acres of soybeans in McGregor, Iowa, four miles from the river. "The muddy water hurts plants by putting silt on their leaves, and it hurts fish with silt on their eggs...
...mornings, various small boats would make the rounds to the large anchored pleasure-craft offering medical services, garbage pick-up and fish for sale. There was even an ice cream...
...something instructive. (What else would he be telling me?) I try to pay attention, but I am so happy to see him alive that I simply stare at his face. When I begin to wake up, I struggle to crawl back into sleep, into the dream, like a fish flapping breathlessly at the edge of the ocean...
...used to feel like a fish out of water in his presence too, not only because of the normal distances between fathers and sons but also because his world of preference and pleasure reached into a different America from mine. Father's Day makes one aware that fathers and children are separated by cultures, even when biology seeks to narrow the gap. The worlds in which fathers live carry parts of their existence, and our affection does not always distinguish between the man and the matter...