Another goup of Huck Finn emulators makes the news. NSL earlier reported on Thor Anderson’s solo expedition down the Mississippi on a raft made of trash. Now a team of three lads have done it again.
“We said there warn’t no home like a raft, after all. Other places do seem so cramped up and smothery, but a raft don’t. You feel mighty free and easy and comfortable on a raft.”
So Twain might have written this tale.
Just take away the slave Jim, the Duke and the King, trade the Mississippi side-wheelers for barge tows, leave out Pap and insert a very cranky U.S. Coast Guard, add two bold young women as part of an adventure/art project, and…
Well, perhaps this is a different story, after all. But it definitely has a raft.
Libby Hendon, James Burkart, both Kansas Citians, and Laura Mattingly, of Oceanside, Calif., are somewhere south of Baton Rouge this morning, on what Huck called a “monstrous big river,” drifting past looming grain and chemical barges, bound for …. salt.
Their craft was built in three weeks, as Hendon puts it, “entirely from the discarded remnants of turn-of-the-century homes, civic refuse, and main brand soda-pop manufacture.” That last would mean 30-gallon plastic syrup drums from Pepsico.
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