A Tale Of Two River Cities

St. Louis and Portland are renewing their connections with the rivers that make the cities important.

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September 7, 2003, 11:00 AM PDT

By Abhijeet Chavan @http://twitter.com/legalaidtech

Just like Portland, St. Louis is where it is because two great rivers come together. But like too many places, in St. Louis the rivers and the people came apart. The Missouri and the Mississippi were hard to get to, uninviting for recreation and increasingly polluted, and the contamination not only contributed to the separation, it demonstrated it."

Thanks to Abhijeet Chavan

FULL STORY: St. Louis, Portland: a tale of two cities and their river intersections

Sunday, September 7, 2003 in The Oregonian

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