Chapter 16
A Community of Tennessee Writers, Readers & Passersby

Straight on ‘til Morning

The River Will Be a Part of Us chronicles a remarkable youthful adventure

In the summer of 1981, a group of young people from the U.S. and Germany launched a homemade raft on the Missouri River near Kansas City, determined to float all the way to New Orleans. Nashvillian Justus Wayne Thomas documented the trip with his camera, and his striking photographs of the crew and the landscape they journeyed through are collected in The River Wil Be a Part of Us.

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