The Big Blue, just south of where I
was born.
11 January 2018
I am a 'River Rat'
I was born in Marysville, Kansas on the Big Blue River. With the exception of five years on the farm in Marshall County, 12 miles from Marysville, I’ve lived in river towns all my life, and even then, I still swam and fished in the Blue. I’ve lived in Topeka and Lawrence, KS on the Kaw, I’ve lived in Kansas City, Kansas at the confluence of the Kaw and the Missouri, I’ve lived in Edmonton, Alberta on the North Saskatchewan, and I’ve lived the last several years in Council Bluffs, Iowa, back on the Mighty Mo. I’ve been a River Rat all my life. Now, I’m coming full circle. I’ve moved to Wilber, Nebraska, where, by the grace of God, I will probably die, and Wilber is on the Big Blue, the river I learned to swim in and fish in almost 70 years ago. I hope to still have many years fishing in the Big Blue, tho’ I doubt I’ll be swimming in it!
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