From: Cduncansts@aol.com

The fucking river anyway. They need to shorten that fucker up. But tis a long and winding water way that needs a long convoluted name, and so be it then.

So anyway, I know a guy on the river, he has a personal relationship with every rock that threatens to take off the prop on his outboard motor and every island from St. Cloud down to the Coon rapids dam. There is a special "neighborhood" just down stream of where the river flows past Anoka (where the Rum River comes in). The common area, "the back yard," is the river, where the people are crazy wierdos and dull prudes and nothing much in the middle. My pal is a hermit, but goes around being gregarious with these people. He's a river rat. I don't know what your film will be looking for, but an interlude in this place might be of interest. I hope the film can encompass the Minnesota end of it in a thorough manner, because it is clear that this is a great place to start, and of course the reason why the river flows south in spite of the elevation being higher down in Louisiana, is because Iowa Sucks!