Category: Travel, culture, relaocation
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Journeying Through Memories of Illinois Route 3: Kayaking at Grafton
Part 5 of personal reflections and historic explorations of the Grafton to Cairo length of Illinois Route 3 by writer and poet Richard Stimac. More than one company rents kayaks by the hour, but paddling the Illinois River is a task. Both the Illinois and the Mississippi contain a nine-foot channel lock-and-dam system to maintain…