By Bob Frakes You will recall I wrote a piece in The River Hills Traveler recently about a tower that showed on an old topography map. It sat above Little Antire Creek south of I-44 near several Scout facilities. I have had lots of luck getting answers by putting it out there in the River…
Today, it seems some want to move south to the “Sun Belt.” But thanks to some help and ingenuity from Irwin Zimmerman of Rutledge, Missouri, the fire tower from near Benton, Florida, has turned the table. Irwin, like many including myself, has held a longtime fascination with the towers. My interest first showed over half…
The Shannondale chute. By Bob Frakes I receive information and pictures from the “tower hobbyists” from time to time. The other day I received a picture from Kenzie Cooper. Kenzie and a friend had canoed the stretch of the Current River above Round Spring and had taken a picture of Shannondale Tower from the river. …
Over the half-century of my fire tower hobby, I made many friends. Max Gorman, who worked the Shannondale Tower and still lives nearby, became one of my closest. Max sent me this picture from one of his farms. Fourteen years ago, as a road was being worked through, a bulldozer pushed the large rock into…
As always, I enjoyed Michelle Turner’s latest piece on where the two great rivers meet. It jogged my memory back to a program I attended years ago by noted lecturer John Lynn. He had canoed the entire Mississippi River from Lake Itasca to New Orleans. He made the comment that at the point where the…
I have been in touch with Anthony Lee for some time regarding work being done at the Winona Civilian Corps Camp #1731. A variety of efforts are being undertaken to “tidy the place up.” You may recall Michelle Turner just did a piece in the River Hills Traveler on the site and those efforts. Anthony…
I enjoy contributing to the River Hills Traveler from time to time but I mostly enjoy reading the articles on a more regular basis. I took special interest in the Greenville story in the April issue. My grandparents, Roy and Ella Kinnison, owned a farm on Rings Creek south of Patterson. In fact, if you…
I just finished Mike Roux’s piece on “Beagle Music” that was in a recent issue of the Traveler. It took me a long time to read as I was drawn back to many great memories at the end of every paragraph. While growing up the backyard was always full of beagles and Dad, my brother…
