Yesterday, I interviewed Lauren Donovan, who kayaked the length of the Mississippi River from Lake Itasca to New Orleans. We met her as we were moored at the public dock in Hastings, MN. She paddled up the river with a friend in a Walmart inflatable raft.
Here she talks about nearly drowning in Lock 11 near Dubuque, Iowa.
The long form of this interview will be part of the Secret History archive.
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[…] Prescott and I had a slow morning doing new media work for the project. I posted a snippet of a great interview with Lauren Donovan who kayaked the entire Mississippi River. I conducted a interview with Jessica Bierbrauer who is the […]
You are one lucky girl
I’m so glad you knew what to do and you did it.
Fast water in a large river is extremely dangerous.
Your great, great uncle Fred taught me & Helen. How to recovers tipped canoe in thr St. Frolic River
It did come useful once upon a time I had to rescue 2 Chinese exchange students on very windy lake. They were scared and did not inderstand English very good