Kayla McGillem and Woodsy visit the Mississippi River Tales Mural in Cape Girardeau, Missouri

 

Round Trip: 90.6 miles

Total Miles Traveled: 90.6 miles

Latitude: 37.3058839

Longitude: -89.51814760000002

 

Kayla and Woodsy travelled to Cape Girardeau, Missouri on March 26th to visit the Mississippi River Tales Mural along the waterfront. The Mississippi River Tales Murals were officially dedicated on July 7th, 2005, and features 24 different sections. Each section tells the tale of a specific time, people, and place in the history of Cape Girardeau, beginning with the Native Americans inhabiting the land. Also included in the murals are the recognition of Missouri as a state, the Great Fire, the river's Big Freeze, and the River Fest, alongside murals with important people (men and women). Thomas Melvin, an artist from Chicago, worked alongside many artists from the area to paint the murals. The murals span 18,000 square feet of the wall, which is 15 feet high. Along the wall are markers indicating peak flood levels at different years. Cape Girardeau is home to many more historic sites, including cemeteries, but Kayla and Woodsy were unable to visit them because Kayla had to return to Carbondale for work. 

 

Kayla and Woodsy at the fist panel in the Mississippi River Tales Mural, beginning with the history of the Native Americans who inhabited the land.

Kayla and Woodsy at the flood wall. Each date is marked above the line, indicating where the peak point of the flood was for that year.