[LMB] "Long Blue River"

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M:
 
I don't know that I've seen many rivers that looked blue from ground  level.  
Why not call it "The Long Gray River?"  Then we might say that  the name 
"Grace River" was derived from "grayish"  <g>.   Unfortunately the Ohio is 
starting to sound like the Limpopo or like Spike  Jones' version of the Blue Danube.  
But at least AFAIK, it never caught  fire like the Cuyahoga.
 
Mary (not the librarian, the other one)


>While I rather like the sound of those titles too, there is  the problem
that in 50 years, I've NEVER seen the Ohio River look ANY shade  of blue.
Green, yes.  Gray, yes.  Greeny-brown, yes. Brown, oh h3ll  yes. Blue,
nope.  WAY too much sediment, anytime I've been near  it.  So, as the
Grace is modeled on the Ohio, I very much doubt blue  applies, even
assuming a far lower erosion load from a vastly lowered human  population
washing dirt into it. 

>Too bad, really.  The Long  Blue River and The Wide Green World would
make a nice  pair.


>Mary Piero Carey

Periodicals Department
Stark  County District Library
715 Market Ave. N.
Canton, Ohio   44702-1018

(330)452-0665 x 5750

mcarey at starklibrary.org

We  don't have issues... we have subscriptions.


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