Journey Down the Mississippi: America's Cultural Heartbeat

[@twostop6895]

with all the water issues out west wet places like this should be thriving

[@weidongwang1114]

Hi, Regarding Cairo Ohio. I went to a town in Mexico, called San Miguel Allende last Oct. The town was built because the Spaniards found silver nearby. When the mines were closed, the town became a ghost town. But some artists were attracted to its preserved colonial buildings. And they restored them. Now the town is booming with tourists from everywhere in the world. Good luck!

[@idk-xj6wv]

It's Cairo Illinois not Ohio

[@ianwebb2235]

This was incredible!, My wife - she is Japanese, she loves the Blues, as do I she, and I were amazed! Thank you.

[@reelhappytravellers2691]

Really a feast for the eyes! It must be my extreme good luck to have got a chance to see such a beautiful video!

[@carrueross2705]

Very well done documentary. Explains so well how our great river has touched so many of our lives, directly and indirectly.

[@majie1018]

I don’t think this is about the Mississippi, but more about poverty in the black communities along the river. Depressing to say the least.

[@emr6153]

What did you expect it to be abt? The fish and wildlife remaining along the Mississippi?

[@gatestimonymiracle1302]

Yes tuns of black people died in that river

[@Sheruff1978]

Agreed. Very little about the actual river. And there is so much to talk about. Wasn’t really looking for a lesson on “systemic racism” we get enough of those EVRY day. Thought maybe I’d learn something about the river I spent so much time on but nope.

[@timfoinc.6879]

That is your vision and opinion from this film.

[@6969-c6m]

​@@Sheruff1978 systematic racism. get real

[@SquaretailDaddy]

I drove through Cairo a few years back bc I knew of its historic significance. I’m also a lover of old towns, the sometimes blown out towns that are now in decline: nothing prepares me for Cairo though. It was the most dismal, jolting dose of ruin I’ve ever experienced. Again, not a spring chicken, this was unique in all my travels. I do wish I could go back and look again though honestly, and hope to see some history.

[@ayinaticfrazlin3572]

Yeah I actually live and so much racial riots in the past have really made this city the place it is right now it's really sad.

[@teegrowl5186]

Funny how some people dnt know it's actually the NILE

[@tybickford7896]

My Dad and I traveled the Big Mississippi River traveling to Seattle from Sidney,Nebraska and I'll never forget it!. R.i.P Kelly Roger Bickford

[@gem5511]

Via the Mississippi River????

[@carlsaganlives6086]

@@gem5511 It's a tourist paddle wheeler, plying the headwaters.

[@robertshaver1612]

So authentic. You captured the river, the music and the pain of poverty. Great writing, editing and storytelling. This is documentary film making at its best. Thank you for sharing this.

[@marktwained]

Lots of false information

[@paulbriggs3072]

@@marktwained Even worse. As if New Orleans was all about blues or jazz as opposed to normal life.

[@walterquick8649]

bs irish were slaves also Now Corperates are the NEW slave OWNER

[@___beyondhorizon4664]

It mentioned provence, there's no province in the US

[@N5KDA]

A story of half truths. I've been in a river town for 60 years. This area is one of the nations best kept secrets because of videos like this. Keep them coming!

[@childoftruth1738]

Pronounce it kay-row!! Gotta love the "river rats", they are salt of the earth, God fearing, honest, self reliant and will give you the shirt off their backs! This is America! Love from WKy ❤️

[@T.Sullivan]

God fearing lol. None of us mfs believe in fairy tales

[@kevincourtney7312]

@@T.Sullivan LOL, you will.

[@milliebanks7209]

Why all the negative comments? You are missing out on providing so much wonderful information regarding the Mighty Mississippi!

[@brianrajala7671]

I am think the very same thing.

[@brianrajala7671]

Thinking

[@marktwained]

Quite a bit of false information.

[@TEXANConnection]

no history , just Bias BS

[@maryhodgson3970]

GOD bless the people of the Mississippi River please keep the music 🎵🎶 going on..GOD throught your son JESUS please forgive me of my sins if I ever took anything for granted or anyone in my life I'm so sorry .I pray for all people of the world.amen.

[@EddieRobertsRiverGypsy]

Oddly they skipped my home towns. Natchez, MS the oldest settlement on the Mississippi. Didn't mention Devil's Punchbowl that most want to bury as a bad post Civil War memory. Just across the river from Natchez is Vidalia, LA my home town (sort of because I'm actually 10 miles south of there a quarter mile off the river) but I pretty much live on both sides of the river and on the river as a crew boat/supply boat and emergency transport boat Captain for the towboat industry. The things I have witnessed are book worthy. The many deaths. The unrecoverable bodies. The once fairly clean but muddy waters now reek of pollution but on the upside it's a beautiful river that demands respect. So many sunrises and sunsets. Full moons and dark nights. I have ran some of the strangest currents ever. The forever changing river. Once you learn to navigate high water comes then recededs and you start all over again. New sand bars appear. Old ones dissappear. This River gets in your blood. I run it night and day, storms, fog, high winds, etc. Keeps you on point. I'm at mile 357 right now (Marango Bend) on the Lower where the river runs wide and crazy. Just surprised me they didn't cover this area with all the history and plantations here.. I grew up as a sharecropper on this delta farming. Gave up 1/4th of the crops to the land owners which was fair until soybean prices bottomed out. Sharecropping has basically died as big corporations took over. Bill Gates purchased thousands of acres here putting many sharcroppers out of buiness thus I turned to the river for work; hard work but people here are used to hard work. As a child I sat atop the levee on my pony and watched many baptisms. I attended an all black church right here where I sit now as the only white person (actually Indian but thats another story about migrating down here in the 1960's). The church still stands and is active. I have saw this river change so much over the past 50 years. If the river wins (and eventually it will) it will take a more western route that would mean disaster for the Port of Baton Rouge and New Orleans and wipe out the Morgan City area. The river wants to turn west just south of here but man is trying to divert this change. Eventually the river will win. This is no river to play on; the Lower. It demands respect. Just off the top of my head I can count 7 unrecoverable bodies in this area over the past couple of years. It's not for pleasure boating nor the inexperienced boater at all.

[@tishlacombe364]

You should write a book. You're very intelligent and capable of telling us story about your life. I live in Slidell Louisiana, do you know where that is? ☄️

[@venusflytrap795]

This is a beautiful piece you have written. My family are from Natchez and would frequently cross over to Vidalia. The punch bowl is hush hush. Sad to say.

[@deondreperkins9182]

Man I thought I had a gift for writing stories but u my friend are definitely in the wrong field!! U should indeed write a book about this!! U have a gift my ppl!!

[@007vsMagua]

The lower Mississippi has certainly helped to developed Southern culture and life, but the upper Mississippi played a major role in providing the raw materials for building the West and spreading culture.

[@JustinMajors-n1v]

Msn, that old fellow’s account of the flood made me really sad and fortunate I’ve never been in any situations like that

[@phyllispatterson7352]

I was born a town away. This area of the country was left back in the last century.

[@ryrvik]

HERE WE GO!!

[@emmilypalmer9269]

Depressing how far our country hasn’t grown. Shameful.

[@josephoneil3093]

Funny, I bet they’re happier than you.

[@emmilypalmer9269]

@@josephoneil3093 ??? Make sense with your comments or why waste time?

[@medooo37]

@Emmily you are so beautiful

[@mathieutoussaintlemos6159]

America spends billions and trillions of dollars on military exercises around the globe, but is unable to develop this rich culturally region. I can't understand it, seriously.

[@emmilypalmer9269]

@@mathieutoussaintlemos6159 seriously shameful 😖 You have a spectacular name 🙏

[@carlanova1427]

The "muddy waters" comment double entendre for the musical artist from Mississippi!

[@ahmadali-lb4gg]

Good video

[@marcdesmeuzes2054]

I would like to go to the Montana. It's beautiful and very cold in Winter.

[@missKushite]

Those Casinos did nothing for the Mississippi Delta!

[@DilshadKhan-wz3bu]

God is watching in them😇

[@harrybond1485]

Huh?

[@billyalonzo406]

Having both rivers less than a half a hour from my home I find myself drewn to them So much to be seen The spring time is the best time to be on them unless there in flood stage The Mo in flood stage can be a unforgiving river Spent many a day sand bagging Trying to hold it in her banks

[@modernera777]

Cario is ironically named and placed near a town named Mounds which is believed to be one of the three North American Pyramids.

[@CortexNewsService]

That part of Illinois is still called Little Egypt too.

[@sakshigupta403]

Productive information

[@xen4886]

Very nice and very balanced. Mark Twain probably would've 'liked' this too.

[@ramishrambarran3998]

Excellent video. Thanks. Trinidad & Tobago.

[@MushtaqAhmad-jg3bn]

Masha Allah very nice video and very interested life is very hard God bless you all💖🇵🇰

[@MakeSomeNoisePlaylists]

religion sucks man, wake up !

[@sachinrv1]

It is the same story for each and every river. We are not keeping any stone un-turned in polluting our rivers and the time will come when the world will go to wars just for a glass of water.

[@johannathatsall]

So true. Fresh water is not being honored all over the world!

[@devonsmith9821]

Thought the Murphy bed was a great idea. Don't be daunted by a basic 2X4 frame that folds from strap hinges you'd mount from frame to wall. As is our style - just simple - yet the bottom of your bed frame could easily be shelves!!

[@sunmoonworld3466]

Really enjoyed this big love❤👍

[@retheeshs9701]

REMEMBERING ALL THOSE VETRANS WHO FAUGHT at their whole life along the mother MISSISSIPPI. 🙏🙏🙏

[@Zanzamor]

Instead of more churches they need a better education system teach them a better way out of depredation, churches have there agenda but preaching the lords way does not get them out of there situation extreme educational over haul needs to be done and preaching doesn't change it, build churches right along of it build higher education institutions thats how churches can help instead of churches and preaching

[@starloszelson4541]

Why don’t YOU go set up a better education system

[@foxtrot684]

Their… not, there.

[@Zanzamor]

@@foxtrot684 ??.

[@MikeLoveBuns]

Enjoy video about Mississippi River! Mike from Missouri

[@akiyamada2306]

Not a single mention of when the Mississippi flowed BACKWARDS for a week due to a massive earthquake...missed opportunity. Also, while I appreciated how race was handled in this film I am disappointed y'all didn't talk for a minute about the Indigenous peoples and the real history of Mississippi.

[@marktwained]

Never ran backwards for a week. That is lore, not true.

[@ghostballs1874]

The video is about how the river impacted America not Indians

[@douglasthompson8927]

@@ghostballs1874 Indians are not Americans ?

[@ghostballs1874]

@@douglasthompson8927 not by choice

[@douglasthompson8927]

@@ghostballs1874 what`s that supposed to mean?

[@ewaste-jd-preciousmetals3723]

Very nice documentary for sharing as information.

[@christopherspence6459]

Water skiing was invented in 1922 when Ralph Samuelson used a pair of boards as skis and a clothesline as a towrope on Lake Pepin in Lake City, Minnesota. - Wikipedia

[@peacejones7648]

Amazing documentary! I love Louisiana ❤️ so much history there!

[@doublezmtnman]

The story of the Mississippi is much more diverse than just talking about slavery which you do for most of the program.

[@gatestimonymiracle1302]

Mississippi is all about racism and slavery

[@anomaly8349]

What’s the name of the song being played at about 22:00 in?

[@Juan-gs2by]

watching this documentary after the river is drying up

[@crystinamarie1]

Beautiful documentary! Thank for sharing 🤗

[@prepperjonpnw6482]

Is anyone else kind of confused by the way the narrator keeps pronouncing Cairo as “Kay-roo” lol I thought it was “kī-row” like in Egypt. I’ve never been to the little town in this video so I’m not certain about the pronunciation but since there’s another town with the same name as one in Egypt (Memphis) and that one is pronounced the same way as the one in Egypt I’m willing to bet that Cairo is as well lol. Just my best educated guess though lol

[@rolandjones7277]

Kyro- Cairo river town

[@johnqpublic4055]

There are several towns in my home state that are not pronounced as you might suppose. Vye-enna, Ay-thens, El Dor-ay-do, and Care-o. Then, of course, there's Benld, pronounced Ben L D.

[@kevinallen5246]

I've been on the river since 2014, and everyone out here calls it "kay-row". First time I called it "kī-row" my mate looked at me in total confusion. No idea what I was talking about. 😆

[@takingoutthetrash1512]

"making it the richest nation on earth, also most impoverish"..... that sums up america perfectly

[@silfawai1535]

Shame on govt👎 for not acting on cleaing all the pollution up stream to provide clean water to the peoples livinON n"off the BLESSED RIVER" WATER TO LIVE A QUALITY OF LIFE... SHOW NOT MUCH CHANGED, OF HOW THEY TREAT THE PEOPLES 💜🦋🍃🙏NZ

[@th1910]

That was the history, but now certain city in America African American are the sole owner. 💖

[@d3g3n3r4t3]

>talks about "abject poverty" >proceeds to show footage of obese people We need to get this term properly defined, people...

[@francoisedandre3644]

Quel éblouissement, tous ces visages de la vie, le long du Mississippi.

[@zaxpage9003]

We don't call Cairo (karu) it's more like (KERO).

[@swearenginlawanda]

Thank you. Narration driving me crazy

[@noonespecial4171]

@@swearenginlawanda you should put subtitles on if you really want crazy LOL

[@texomahog]

Really!!! The guy is annoying.

[@harrybond1485]

That figures you hillbilly.

[@Dman9fp]

46:00 most powerful memorable part of this doc imo. Is what's happening to my home state of FL. Next to nobody but old timers & tree huggers seem to care about the nice nature, rivers and springs still out there... Yet they are All plagued with problems and in decline. What does our governor do? Sell out to developers and invite more industry, more foreign money, kick out the hard working natives who can't afford to live here... It'll happen to all of Florida eventually, at this rate (& without them, you can only have remote workers who can afford rent and housing and property tax price hikes from demand surging from big money people moving here... FL could very much become Cali or New York in a decade, scarily seeming reminiscent and I've never been to those states, but just seems it's coming)

[@ChubbyTeletubby]

There's something so satisfying about hearing a Brit say, "star spangled" With such ferocity too. I felt a surge of patriotism. From a subject of the Queen! Well... Long live the Queen. -a Yankee doodle (not dandy)

[@johannathatsall]

I'm just wondering why a Brit was used to talk about our United States Mississippi River? 🤔

[@MidwestMaui]

What is the song at 22:08?

[@marylavine2632]

You missed st. Louis

[@todddoetken2594]

Where I come from - Burlington, Iowa, this river is packed full of trash, farm chemicals, and other nasty toxins.

[@k_ldrarik_ldrari2734]

Came for Huckberry Finn. BR.

[@devoradamaris]

🕊🌎🕊🕊

[@garyharris4008]

Mark Twain wasn't a captain, Samuel Clemons was.

[@SeverSTL]

Mrs. Parker ''Gow awful rap'' Well put.

[@LisebaThonger]

Poverty in the land of the black people communities is a never ending cycle ...it's never ending in this 21st century am sure it won't even change at all even after thousands of years

[@juliaherbet2063]

Leave Zimbabwe out of it. Just because you portray Zimbabwe as the poorest country in the world it doesn't mean it is. What about Republic of Congo

[@juliaherbet2063]

@pryncess-abledbyGod exactly. America is regarded as the richest country but it's people are going to bed hungry. People are homeless, no good health system. So how is it different from Zimbabwe then. How many tent cities are in America, how many homeless people in UK and other EU countries. Just because you write it on a piece of paper it doesn't mean it is. The people of Zimbabwe majority lives in rural areas where they grow their own food. Unless there's natural disasters that the people can not control like draught. No country is perfect

[@blakshatta4093]

Tell him 💪🏽🇿🇼

[@nlwin7789]

Great video and documentation! If anyone thinks God plays a part in any of this, think again. If I were god, I would not play favorites on who lives, suffers or dies, I would rather give them all equality. There are two universal natural forces of nature that all livings are affected; one's choices and actions of the past and present(karma) that determine what the future is as a result of cause and consequences.

[@gundamt437]

It's ironic that you say you don't believe in God ,but then talk about karma, which is part of Hinduism and Buddhism.. So which God are you saying you don't believe in. 🤷

[@nlwin7789]

@@gundamt437 Theravada Buddhism don't believe in gods or creator like Hindus, only practice to attain Nirvana/attainable by most who are determined and dedicated.

[@gundamt437]

@@nlwin7789 yes. I have some small knowledge of Buddhism, and I'm sure you may be more knowledgeable in it that I am. However, Buddhist claim that there are no gods or created gods, is a bit confusing when they show worship to Buddha and are his disciples. To me it's just semantics. They adhere to Buddha's teachings and enlightenment, then posture to his statue, then claim they don't worship a god. But besides for that. Both sects have karma in their teachings. So are you inferring that that karma in Hinduism, is different in Buddhism?

[@brettferguson2742]

This river has been doing this for thousands of years man can't beat mother nature well will be long gone and she will continue to do her work for thousands of more years

[@silfawai1535]

Umm In Truth"the ancestor of african peoples , that worked those land! Really own theses lands an everything on it... those farm owners wouldn't hve anything if it wasnt for the beautiful indigenous peoples💜🍃🙏🌹

[@pennymink5706]

Amen

[@michaelmilitello5644]

Last living delta bluesman ? The delta blues ain’t dead.

[@marcdesmeuzes2054]

C'est là que je m'aperçois qu'il me manque beaucoup de vocabulaire. Par contre je comprends facilement tous les mots que je connais. L'accent ne me pose pas de problème. C'est le résultat d'avoir passé entre 8 et 18 ans un mois d'été dans une famille en Angleterre, en Cornwall à Truro.

[@timfoinc.6879]

@31:18 it may be next place of Egyptian Nile river farming group. Let' s find out weeds, birds families, fishes and basic language nouns, such as Water- Soil- tools- holidays- spices of cinnamon, Salts, peppers, and raw meat slices from fishes or cow and eggs to milkshake of ice cream not coconut rubber fabrics to choke body necks into Emergency first aids over the counter medicines shops.

[@arthurgearheard4701]

Are you sure that it's the fastest? I thought that the Amazon was!

[@geraldmiller5260]

The Ohio River was the main highway for the east to move west.

[@luizfelipels7]

This feels like a production from 2000 or so.

[@michaelmilitello5644]

Cairo is not in the south. Southern Illinois, yes.

[@marmalade0223]

geesh - A - chaf - a - lie - a....... = Atchafalaya, don't forget about the oil spills hurting our shrimp and fishing industry... oh wait, wasn't that a British company>>

[@RJDCR]

Campbells soup , is made from green Ohio river water....whuuuaaa , ohhh well

[@geraldmiller5260]

So much of the USA has such cities that look like they were bombed out.

[@Ukie88]

Make America great again….really, seriously? But the poor keep voting Rep….oh, we can’t have progress, can we. Jim Crow under the surface.

[@KING6TYLER.]

The Nile

[@cliffwoodbury5319]

If I knew nothing about America and you told me to point to 5 spots were i knew a city lied, one of them would have been were the Mississippi and Ohio meets. It might be the first place i pointed!!!! And it is a village instead!!!

[@TheHandyHippieCrew]

Time stamp 20:14 Tunica is not a gambling town because of Tennessee legalizing "River" boat gambling....

[@gloriaswims3478]

pronounced like kay row

[@jasonwalker358]

Pollution, ugh!!!

[@sergiomarin1793]

Couldn't help but notice the unfriendliness of some people on the video

[@jameswatson6]

The real nile River.

[@raj1894]

I HAVE DONE LOT OF PROGETS FOR BATIST CHURCH IN AFRICA USA IN MISSIPE NEWORLEONS ESPECIALY IN ZAMBIA I HAVE BUILT CHERCHES PRAYER ROOMS PLUS ALSO IN DRC IN BUZUMAYO I HAVE SERVED FOR BATIST OVER 30YRS KINDLY UNDERSTAND LORD JESUS SAIID LOVE ALL SERVE ALL PLS UP HOLD PRAY HIM HE IS SPREEM NO HUMAN CAN BE BEE EQUALANT TO HIM

[@JOE-dz5pi]

Where tom sawyer lives!?

[@gardenglory6624]

16:46 ????

[@trealeach4838]

Ancestors

[@iowadarkride]

Kayroo

[@robertforrester578]

Let me ask you, why do we need to listen to a Britsh accent talking about The Great American River?

[@clintontaylor8904]

This story is not unique...it has been played out across all rural America since the farm crisis...nearly every rural town has been in decline since the late 1970s. Take a road trip across iowa or nebraska devoid of the interstate and you'll see virtual ghost towns where nothing that is not directly attached to farming survives

[@venusflytrap795]

“Dirt poor congregation”. The audacity of seeming as a white man to utter such words as if he knew the financial wellbeing of these people. I turned the docu off. This is messed up on so many levels! Mental is one.

[@yatinverma2313]

Yo

[@charlesmahoney790]

Why is it that no one has given God the credit for the river being there? and the use of it

[@loobylooroden6176]

Which and who's God do we thank?

[@charlesmahoney790]

The Father of Jesus the only God did you not know but you are right I see your point

[@jimratcliff861]

Why is it that black business people and black entrepreneurs are not investing in Jackson Mississippi ??? 😮😮😮😢

[@idelakelly7636]

Does jaz y every visit

[@teegrowl5186]

It's actually the NILE

[@thewanderingamerican5412]

The Hudson River made America.

[@calcrappie8507]

Just blew over the upper half of the Mississippi River. Nobody lives there I guess.

[@iowadarkride]

This isn’t about the best part of the Mississippi-this is British people talking about how poor we are while mispronouncing our towns. Iowa/Wisconsin/Minnesota/North Missouri are the best parts of the Mississippi

[@hanssolos3699]

yes, the river where many african slaves were thrown into to die. This is the river of sorrow, tragedy and barbaric.

[@robertmolnar9131]

Why the negativity? why negative first? 🤢🤪 So we should remember the Danube or Rhine in EUROPE that killed hundreds of thousands of people? Floods wars suicides etc? That is history. look at the bright side . Maybe??? 🧐