
Monuments Upon the Tumultuous Earth – Boyce Upholt
Emergence Magazine Podcast
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The Levee: A Continental Torrent
As recently as 12,000 years ago, there was no river here. Instead, an arm of water reached up from the Gulf of Mexico. European settlers had a distinct response to this chaos: A levee. The resulting embankment grew through the centuries and now stands 30 feet tall in places.
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