Record lows reveal magic of Mississippi River’s sunken past
A large sandbar juts out into the Mississippi River south of Downtown Memphis. (Patrick Lantrip/Daily Memphian)
“Most of us sort of live in our little world where everything is always the same. The leaves change, and the grass grows, but when a river drops like this … there’s a real sense of discovery — a sort of magic.”
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Mississippi RiverKeely Brewer
Keely Brewer is a Report for America corps member covering environmental impacts on communities of color in Memphis. She is working in partnership with the Ag & Water Desk, a sustainable reporting network aimed at telling water and agriculture stories across the Mississippi River Basin.
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