Event

Mississippi Meanderings

Paddlers need to get together even if it is January and the water is hidden from the shore by a treacherous ice shelf. So, the Mississippi River Water Trail offers this opportunity to meet, talk river, eat tacos (cash bar), and listen to some incredible speakers. Non paddlers who like stories and tacos will want to come too!

Yo Wood and Carol Heddinghaus present their highly entertaining account of their recent source to sea trip down the Mississippi. Porsche Schlapper pioneers MRWTAs first ever history talk: what was happening on the Mississippi River Water Trail before there was an MRWT. Bryan Hopkins returns by popular demand with Mississippi 101: important points for everyone who paddles the River Water Trail through MO and IL.

Schedule:
4 p.m. Welcome
4:10- Award for our Most Important Person Award
4:15- Yo Wood and Carol Heddinghaus will talk of their IMAGE (Itasca, Mississippi, Atchafalaya, Gulf Expedition) source to sea trip in 2017.
5:15- Dinner
6:15- Porsche Schlapper, Curator, Herman T. Pott National Inland Waterways Library, will give a condensed history of the Mississippi from Saverton, MO to Cairo, IL
7:00- Break
7:15- Bryan Hopkins presents Mississippi River 101, a guide to paddling the Mississippi.
8:00- End of formal program