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 During the Latsch Island heyday, there were all kinds of river rats living in boathouses off the island; artists, hippies, UFO enthusiasts, a judge, ex-clergy. And not everybody agreed on the best way to keep their community afloat.<a href="https://www.backchannelradio.org/episodes/fpfs75r6ac2nzq0scnq1jh9qht2pta">Listen to extra found music from Leslie Eaton and the Weird Winonans. </a><h3>BONUS MATERIAL:</h3>

During the Latsch Island heyday, there were all kinds of river rats living in boathouses off the island; artists, hippies, UFO enthusiasts, a judge, ex-clergy. And not everybody agreed on the best way to keep their community afloat.Listen to extra found music from Leslie Eaton and the Weird Winonans. BONUS MATERIAL:

During the Latsch Island heyday, there were all kinds of river rats living in boathouses off the island; artists, hippies, UFO enthusiasts, a judge, ex-clergy. And not everybody agreed on the best way to keep their community afloat.<a href="https://www.backchannelradio.org/episodes/fpfs75r6ac2nzq0scnq1jh9qht2pta" rel="noopener noreferrer">Listen to extra found music from Leslie Eaton and the Weird Winonans. </a>BONUS MATERIAL:

Episode 04: River Rats

Back Channel Radio is a storytelling project committed to preserving and sharing oral histories from beyond the mainstream. This first season, “A Wolf Spider Island Story,” chronicles the legal battles a group of river rats had to wage to keep their small boathouse community on the Mississippi River afloat.

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Back Channel Radio is a storytelling project committed to preserving and sharing oral histories from beyond the mainstream. This first season, “A Wolf Spider Island Story,” chronicles the legal battles a group of river rats had to wage to keep their small boathouse community on the Mississippi River afloat.

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