Map and Photos from Toby’s Journey

Br’er Rabbit’s Journey
The Mississippi River from the bluff in Columbus, Kentucky

 

Sunset over the Mississippi River, from the road dropping into Columbus

Red sand bluff at Columbus, Kentucky

From the bluff, looking across to Missouri

 

River grasses in the Columbus flood plain

Ruins of the Massey House at Smithland, reputed to have the tunnel to the river.

Gower House Hotel on the bank of the Ohio River, in front of the Massey House at Smithland

The confluence of the Cumberland and Ohio Rivers at Smithland. The island to the west is not shown.

Path to Sand Cave

Looking out from Sand Cave

 

 

Geoff Ryman: “I think that it’s a good thing for the imagination to do to try to imagine someone else’s life. I see no other way to be moral, . . . Otherwise you end up sympathizing only with yourself” (qtd. in Writing the Other, Shawl and Ward. P. 97).