Travel Talk at the Woods Hole Public Library

Event: Travel Talk at the Woods Hole Public Library: Maggie
and Terry Rioux

Date: Saturday, January 25

Time 3 PM

 Free and open to the
public

Cajun Spice and Southern Charm: An Inland Rivers Cruise
Adventure

The first Woods Hole Public Library Travel Talk of this year
will be offered on Saturday January 25 at 3 PM and all arm-chair travelers are
invited. Come to the Woods Hole Public Library, pull up a chair, and listen to
Maggie and Terry Rioux talk about their most recent trip, which took them  to waterways in the south-eastern United States.
Many in the audience will be familiar with the Rioux’s talks and their special
delight in taking trips aboard the small vessels of  the Blount Company from Warren,  Rhode Island. Previously, as part of the
Library’s travel series, they have talked about trips through the Erie Canal
with the Blount Small Ship Adventures, as well as visits to the Northwest, the
Cayman Islands, and Britain.
This time they will describe their trip with Blount which began and ended in New Orleans.

The ship’s route took them  eastward to Mobile, Alabama, then up the Mobile
and Tom Bigbee rivers, through TennTom Waterway, down the Tennessee and Ohio
Rivers, then all the way back down to New Orleans on the Mississippi.

 Along the way, they  stopped in Demopolis,
Alabama and Columbus,
Mississippi, Pickwick on the Tennessee/Mississippi
border, Memphis, Tennessee
and Vicksburg, Mississippi. Along the way  they visited three Civil War battlefield
sites - Shiloh, Corinth and Vicksburg,
also, by contrast, Loretta Lynn's Ranch and Graceland.
As Maggie says “We had high water adventures, lots of good food and lots of fun,
and met lots of good folks”.

As always, the talk is free and open to the public and will  be copiously illustrated with the Rioux’s
stunning photographs. For more information, call the library at 508-548-8961 or
visit the website www.woodsholepubliclibray.com