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They Called Us River Rats
Today's episode is all about the people who live and have lived along the sliver of land between the levee and the Mississippi River called the batture.
To help me explore this culture I've enlisted the help of Macon Fry, author of the book They Called Us River Rats, and himself an inhabitant of the batture.
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By Mark Bologna
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Today's episode is all about the people who live and have lived along the sliver of land between the levee and the Mississippi River called the batture.
To help me explore this culture I've enlisted the help of Macon Fry, author of the book They Called Us River Rats, and himself an inhabitant of the batture.
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