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West Bank group works to connect with immigrants

The Cedar-Riverside neighborhood has been a home to immigrants since waves of Scandanavians first arrived in the late 19th Century. Today, cultural diversity is still a hallmark, with Somalis, Koreans, Oromos and Vietnamese, among others, making up much of the population. MORE »

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Drinking Mississippi mud

“The man they called Ed said the muddy Mississippi water was wholesomer to drink than the clear water of the Ohio; he said if you let a pint of this yaller Mississippi water settle, you would have about a half to three- quarters of an inch of mud in the bottom, according to the stage of the river, and then it warn’t no better than Ohio water – what you wanted to do was to keep it stirred up – and when the river was low, keep mud on hand to put in and thicken the water up the way it ought to be. MORE »