Why Can't I pick up KGMO here?

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Well it time to report on my annual visit back to my ol' stomping ground
As I had mentioned last time, my flight out involved a brief stopover in Atlanta, so I was pretty bushed by the time I got at to Cape at 9:00Pm, consider I woke up here at 4:00AM.
I slept in before we started out for Cape.
I took a walk along the flood wall that separates Downtown cape from the Mississippi it's painted with Murals illustrating the City's his toy
Pre history The Carolina Parakeet:

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1200: height of the Mississippian/ Mound Builder Culture with Hernando De Soto edging in:

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1673: Fr Marquette arrives, but the Osage tell him to turn around:

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1735: Jean Girardot starts a Trading post:

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1793: Louis Lormier and Bartholomew Cousin Start the town of Cape Girardeau:

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1803 : Louis and Clark visit. They arrived during a horse race:

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1804: Napoleon sell Louisiana to the United states. he reportedly made the decision durning a bath

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to the the right is Mike Fink
1821 Missouri becomes a state:

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1838: The Cherokee cross the Mississippi in the Trail of Tears:

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1861: Col Ulysses "Sam" Grant and Gen Benjamin Prentiss are both given orders to set up shop in Cape. Sam also gets and order promoting him to general. heated discussion ensues:

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Civil War: Union occupies cape, with the Battle of Cape Girardeau occurring in 1863

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1870: St Vincent's school opens . Sam Clemens admires their building. He called Cape "the Athens of the Midwest"

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1875: River Commerce:

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1880: The railroad arrives:

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1909: President Taft visits:

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1916: A fire ravages downtown:

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1918: The River freezes solid:

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1920's; the ship Cape Girardeau and River boat Jazz:

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1927: The building of the first bridge and the Great Flood:

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1964: Building of the Flood wall:

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2003: The first Bridge is replaced with the Bill Emerson Bridge:

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The Tour of Missouri came to Cape this year:

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Some neat buildings along Main Street:

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Unfortunately, you can't get Coke for 3 cents. This was Grant's Headquarters:

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and we leave Cape with the old Buckner Ragsdale dept store:

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I visited dad

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and another Grave at Trail of tears SP. when I was growing up, this was Princess Otakhi of the Cherokees. She's now Nancy Bushyhead:

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Finally, Old Man River at the scenic overlook:

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or is it the Father of the Waters?

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We also took another trip to Bufordsville and the still functioning Grist Mill and Covered bridge. I also went to 4th Grade here:

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The Confederates blew up the dam:

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One of the delights about going to school out was that were bused in so the class size would be big enough. The driver would occasionally take us over the bridge:

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But you can't drive over the bridge now:

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We used to go swimming here when I was a teenager: not anymore, as I got an allergy:

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Finally we had Christmas:

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Before heading to the airport and a Flight to Saint Louis. Cape is a small airport:

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but I still got to fly on a 747:

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Since i had a 6 am flight , I spent the night in a Drury Inn. I almost felt like I was back living on "the Hill" in South St Louis (actually near the hill, as I had dinner at an Italian restaurant(Lombardo's: excellent) and finished off the night by watching the Blues take on the Red Wings at Scottrade(sadly, the "old Barn" on Oakland is gone) before heading off to Dallas, Ontario and home.
Not bad at all