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Great Egret - Reelfoot Lake State Park Visitor Center, Tennessee 21, Tiptonville, Tennessee, USA
Joshua J. Cotten
Scientific name: Ardea alba
Mass: 1.5 – 3.3 lbs (Adult)
Wingspan: 4.3 – 5.6 ft. (Adult)
Conservation status: Least Concern
Colors: white
Class: Aves
Domain: Eukaryota
The great egret, also known as the common egret, large egret, or great white egret or great white heron, is a large, widely distributed egret. The four subspecies are found in Asia, Africa, the Americas, and southern Europe. Recently it is also spreading to more northern areas of Europe.
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Batch of Tmax 400 pics from Reelfoot lake state park. Also taken with Pearl River TLR
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I feel that there’s something very strange about this story, friends. Is it just another case of some poor individual going off the rails and deciding to take a group of innocent bystanders along with him? Or is this part of that very strange phenomena that we uncovered at Reel Foot Lake in Tennessee when David Vowell killed a number of men in a duck blind for no reason and then committed suicide on the lake. One of the men asked him “Why are you doing this?” and he replied “I dont know” Is this another case of something taking possession of someone out there in the woods and doing the unspeakable?
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Pics: Inspiring HPL.
1. Irvin S. Cobb - American writer, editor, humorist & columnist hailing from Paducah, Kentucky¹.
He was the highest paid staff reporter on the NY World newspaper².
Irvin would write 60+ books & around 300 short stories.
Some of which were adapted into silent movies. And, 2 of his later tales were actually filmed, by the famed John Ford³, during the 1930s!
2. Cobb's "dark side" (horror works) of the otherwise lighthearted comedian & the story in question.
3 & 4. Comedic frontpieces(?) for books by Cobb. The 2nd even boasts an Abraham Lincoln quote!
5. Cover to Cobb's collection of other authors's short horror tales.
6. Inside art from Fishhead's ending...
1913 Addendum -
Intro: Irvin Cobb's infamous short story "Fishhead" is set in the back- wood bayous of the vast Reelfoot Lake⁴.
Plot: The tale concerns the murder of a local outcast freak by "poor whites."
With its surprise Jaws⁵-like ending, this gruesome work reminds readers of an issue of EC comics⁶!
Criticism: Lovecraft lauded Cobb for, "... Carrying on our (own) spectral tradition is the gifted... humorist, I.S. Cobb, whose works... contain some finely (made) weird (tales)."
Of the plot, Howard stated that, "Fish- head" (is) an early achievement, ... banefully effective in its portrayal of (an) unnatural... hybrid idiot & the strange fish of an isolated lake."
Lovecraft further opined, "It is (my firm) belief... that... few short stories of equal merit have been published anywhere (else)..."
Legacy: Cobb's "Fishhead" is seen as a major influence on Lovecraft's own "Shadow Over Innsmouth."
Robert M. Price⁷ noted that, "What (Howard) found revolting was the idea of interracial marriage (&) of different ethnicities mating, (thus) 'polluting' the (white? human?) gene pool."
Fishhead is supposedly "the son of a Negro father & a halfbreed Indian mother." It's never mentioned what her other half was from...
This is the same premise behind HPL's "The Shadow Over Innsmouth."
Except that Lovecraft calls them Deep Ones & has a whole city that's been 'turned'...
More when we get to this story...
Notes:
1. Paducah, as 1 out of 9 U.S. Creative Cities, is a haven for thinkers, artists & creators!
Architectural Digest recognizes this city's historic district as 1 of the most beautiful main streets in America.
There are 20 downtown blocks listed in the National Register of Historic Places!
Weird Shit: Paducah's nickname is "The Atomic City."
This was because it was once the U.S.'s only uranium plant, making atomic bombs for our Defense Department...
2. The NY World newspaper began (in 1860) as a leading voice for the US Democratic Party.
But, once under Joseph Pulitzer, it became a pioneer in "yellow journalism."
Catching readers's attention with sensational (sex, sport & scandal) news stories.
This raised their circulation past the 1 million mark!!
Best known for being among the 1st to publish daily comic strips.
They actually created "Hogan's Alley", "Everyday Movies", "Little Mary Mix- up" & "Joe Jinks!"
Merged with The NY Telegram in 1931.
Revived - online - in 2011 by Columbia U. But, hasn't had any new content since 2016...
3. John Ford was an American movie director who won Oscars for "The Informer", "The Grapes of Wrath", "How Green Was My Valley" & "The Quiet Man."
The best of his many Westerns are "The Searchers", "Stagecoach" & "My Darling Clementine."
4. Reelfoot Lake is a real lake best known for its shallowness - about 5½ feet on average.
It's located in western Tennessee &, strangely enough, no swimming is allowed there...
The lake is named after an 1800's Chickasaw warrior with a deformed leg...
Reelfoot Bayou, with its cypress trees, flows out of the lake to join the Obion River - which runs straight to the Mississippi.
5. "Jaws" is, of course, director Steven Spielberg's 1st international master- piece.
And it doesn't need any hype, from me, for you to see it again!
97% on Rotten Tomatoes!!
Enough said...
Make it so!
6. E.C. Comics was an American publisher specializing in horror, crime, dark fantasy & sci-fi comicbooks.
William Gaines printed mature tales of war, adventure, satire, etc...
Noted for its stories high quality, shock endings & progressive social awareness.
Among the themes that EC creators touched upon are: racial equality, anti- war sentiments, nuclear disarmament & even early environmentalism!
Sadly, official censorship forced EC to focus on its "Mad" magazine - which became it's greatest success!!
EC has just been revived, by Oni Press, on this past February of 2024!!
Good times guaranteed...
7. R.M. Price is an American biblical scholar, author & an authority on H.P. Lovecraft.
His works include: "Deconstructing Jesus", "The Reason Driven Life", "The New Lovecraftian Circle", "World War Cthulhu", "The Disciples of Cthulhu", "Arkham Detective Agency", "The Da Vinci Fraud", "The Apartheid State in Crisis" & more great stuff!!
Price was the editor of the greatly lamented Crypt of Cthulhu, Midnight Shambler & Eldritch Tales fanzines.
He even edited a whole series of Mythos anthologies for Chaosium.
Today, Price is editor of The Journal of Higher Criticism!
Busy little tentacle, ain't he...
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Deep within Reelfoot Lake, Tennessee (756x857 OC)
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🍥 Catfish dinner near Reelfoot Lake (TN)
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Wooden path at Reelfoot Lake in Tennessee, USA
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A Lake Born out of an Earthquake
At their most deadly and destructive, earthquakes can topple buildings, crumple roads, and trigger tsunamis. They can also fundamentally reshape the landscape, reroute rivers, and even form new lakes.
The latter took place in the northwest corner of Tennessee in the early 19th century. Between December 1811 and February 1812, three earthquakes with magnitudes greater than 7 occurred in the New Madrid seismic zone, which encompasses southeastern Missouri, northeastern Arkansas, and neighboring parts of Tennessee and Kentucky. The last of these quakes, on February 7, 1812, centered near New Madrid, Missouri, was especially notable: It temporarily rerouted the Mississippi River, permanently dammed the Reelfoot River, and directed water to fill in a low-lying area to form Reelfoot Lake.
More than two centuries later, Reelfoot Lake remains a persistent feature on the Tennessee landscape. The OLI-2 (Operational Land Imager-2) on Landsat 9 captured this image of the lake, surrounding wetlands, and the nearby Mississippi River on November 27, 2023.
Rivers that run over fault lines are susceptible to being stopped abruptly and wrenched askew when the ground shifts. Earthquake-induced river avulsions, or sudden changes of course, have been documented throughout history. In 2016, for example, the Kaikōura earthquake in New Zealand effectively dammed the Waiau Toa (Clarence River) and forced it into an entirely new channel.
In the case of the earthquake that formed Reelfoot Lake, lore has it that the shaking even made the Mississippi flow in reverse for a time; however, that may have been an illusion from earthquake-generated water waves traveling upriver. The shaking virtually destroyed the small Missouri town of New Madrid. Eyewitnesses near the epicenter also described trees being uprooted and the ground rising, falling, and cracking open. People in distant cities such as Boston, Detroit, and New Orleans reported to have felt the shaking.
Some geologists consider the New Madrid seismic zone the most hazardous earthquake region east of the Rocky Mountains. Yet its history of large quakes and risk of future destructive activity remain sources of inquiry and debate. Geologists understand less about what causes earthquakes in the middle of tectonic plates than they do about ones at plate boundaries. What they do know is that seismic waves in the eastern U.S. travel much farther than they do in the west, so tremors of the same magnitude affect a larger area.
The Reelfoot Lake of today is a haven for boating, fishing, and watching wildlife. Bald cypress (Taxodium distichum) trees grow in marshy areas, while stumps from pre-flood forests are submerged in the water. The lake is surrounded by wetlands that comprise a state park and national wildlife refuge. Bald eagles and waterfowl overwinter in the area, while songbirds, frogs, and other aquatic life abound in the spring and summer.
NASA Earth Observatory image by Wanmei Liang, using Landsat data from the U.S. Geological Survey. Story by Lindsey Doermann.
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Today's Earthquake in Arkansas Serves as Reminder of New Madrid Seismic Zone Danger
A weak earthquake rattled northeastern Arkansas early this morning according to USGS, not far from the heart of the New Madrid Seismic Zone (NMSZ). According to USGS, the earthquake struck near Pleasant Plains between Little Rock, Arkansas and Memphis, Tennessee at 12:25 am from a depth of 4 km; it was rated a weak magnitude 1.8 event. Generally, earthquakes with a magnitude of 2.0 or greater can be felt by most people. Earthquakes generally need a much greater intensity than that to do any harm.
This earthquake was the 14th to strike in Arkansas, Missouri, and Tennessee near the Mississippi River Valley in the last 7 days. ...
... December 16 marks the anniversary of the first of three major quakes to strike the United States during the winter of 1811-1812, a violent time in seismological history of the region that scientists say will be repeated again.
While the US West Coast is well known for its seismic faults and potent quakes, many aren’t aware that one of the largest quakes to strike the country actually occurred near the Mississippi River. On December 16, 1811, at roughly 2:15am, a powerful 8.1 quake rocked northeast Arkansas in what is now known as the New Madrid Seismic Zone. The earthquake was felt over much of the eastern United States, shaking people out of bed in places like New York City, Washington, DC, and Charleston, SC. The ground shook for an unbelievably long 1-3 minutes in areas hit hard by the quake, such as Nashville, TN and Louisville, KY. Ground movements were so violent near the epicenter that liquefaction of the ground was observed, with dirt and water thrown into the air by tens of feet. President James Madison and his wife Dolly felt the quake in the White House while church bells rang in Boston due to the shaking there.
But the quakes didn’t end there. From December 16, 1811 through to March of 1812, there were over 2,000 earthquakes reported in the central Midwest with 6,000-10,000 earthquakes located in the “Bootheel” of Missouri where the New Madrid Seismic Zone is centered.
The second principal shock, a magnitude 7.8, occurred in Missouri weeks later on January 23, 1812, and the third, an 8.8, struck on February 7, 1812, along the Reelfoot fault in Missouri and Tennessee.
The main earthquakes and the intense aftershocks created significant damage and some loss of life, although lack of scientific tools and news gathering of that era weren’t able to capture the full magnitude of what had actually happened. Beyond shaking, the quakes also were responsible for triggering unusual natural phenomena in the area: earthquake lights, seismically heated water, and earthquake smog. ...
... The February earthquake was so intense that boaters on the Mississippi River reported that the flow of the water there reversed for several hours.
The area remains seismically active and scientists believe another strong quake will impact the region again at some point in the future. Unfortunately, the science isn’t mature enough to tell whether that threat will arrive next week or in 50 years. Either way, with the population of New Madrid Seismic Zone huge compared to the sparsely populated area of the early 1800s, and tens of millions more living in an area that would experience significant ground shaking, there could be a very significant loss of life and property when another major quake strikes here again in the future.
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Last few images from Reelfoot lake.
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Discover the Tranquil Beauty of Tennessee’s Lakes
Tennessee boasts a picturesque collection of lakes, including Norris Lake, Dale Hollow Lake, and Reelfoot Lake. These natural wonders offer a range of recreational activities, from boating and fishing to hiking along their scenic shores. Experience the beauty of Tennessee Lakes, a haven for outdoor enthusiasts.
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Hometown Mysteries
Hometown Mysteries: Books 12, 13 and 15 from the Carson Reno Mystery Series https://a.co/d/1zGnIkn
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Extra Pics: Leftovers (yum!) for the "Fishhead" blog entry...
1 thru 3. Paducah, Kentucky - a small town feel for a town with big, artistic dreams.
4 & 5. Reelfoot Lake & its swampy area are real world places! No implied or invented setting - shucks!
Lovecraft, you really delivered - story wise.
6. The real John Ford, a masterful director - of time, people & space!!
Maybe he's a Great Old One?!!
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Hometown Mysteries: Books 12, 13 and 15 from the Carson Reno Mystery Series https://a.co/d/1zGnIkn
#privateinvestigator #hardboiledmystery #hometown #mystery #deadly
#justifiable #reelfoot
#fiction #booksta #booksie #bookish #bookstagram #mysteries #ebooks #geraldwdarnell #authorscommunity
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