Bob Frakes

Shedding some light

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…

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A Florida tower moves north

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…

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What is a tributary?

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…

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Is it “S.” or “S” ?

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…

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