I visited the Buffalo River in Arkansas when I was 7, with 3 other families with lots of kids in June of 1963. I thought I’d ascended to heaven. Andrea Place Fournet​, Adele Fournet​, and I moved to Fayetteville in 1993 after picking it out the entire country as our new home town. I feel very fortunate.

June 13, 2014, floating and paddling the Buffalo River with Adele Fournet.

Take every ripple and roil,

Every pond and portage,

As they and you come together.