Nonprofits and Government Agencies Working to Get Locals Acquainted with the Mississippi

From the Star Tibune:

On an overcast morning, seven people in a 24-foot voyageur canoe paddled by as jabbering swallows flocked around a sandstone cliff at the river's edge. Adding their voices to the river's chorus, the diminutive birds tucked their wings and flitted in and out of tiny holes in the cliff face.

The paddlers, part of a flotilla of six canoes, were not hundreds of miles from the nearest coffee shop or Wi-Fi hot spot. They were on the Mississippi, just downstream from the Interstate 94 bridge in Minneapolis, at the center of the metro area.

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