John Wayne Rosso
Collector and Appreciator of Fine Things
Plaquemine, La.
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The Dumps Along the Mississippi River
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Mr. Rosso on the Mississippi |
Bottom line on getting outdoors and creating your own hobbies in life, is that along the
[Mississippi] River you've got the old dumps. You've got ships passing, you can collect a few old
bottles, you got barges passing. Its just an outing that occupies my time in a unique way to
whereby you don't hurt anybody. You hear the birds, the wind, you smell the air off the River,
usually it is cool.
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Photograph by Fonville Winans |
It is very relaxing, every now and then I bring a friend with me and just expose
them to what is here and uh, I think it is educational in a basic sense to whereby you find your
history along the River. Sometimes I find an old rope that came off a barge. Sometimes I find old
bottles, sometime I find different things, uh old door knobs and stuff that I put in my house. I
clean up and retap the threads and put in my house, you can't find that in any hardware stores
anymore and then I listen to the birds.
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