Day 127 Havana tambien

Tambien means "again" for all those who never took 7th grade Spanish. Storms were threatening and the winds were high so we opted to stay another day in this pleasant little marina along with Akasha (Clarke, Rosie and daughter, Catherine). Walked around the town again this morning. Some stores were closed yesterday when we got here - they close at 2pm. Shopped at the Dollar Store which seems to be the hub of the village. Later we went back and ate good burgers at Babe's and then walked down to the ice cream store for soft lemon cones. And that's life in a small town America. Researched what maybe killed this town and, I think, it was the pollution in the river that depleted the supply of the fowl and fish and couple that with over fishing and over hunting and pretty soon your hunters and fishermen quit coming and everything else dries up. The second pic is a historic shot of the fisheries on the river in Havana's heyday. The third is the closed stores and theater now. It surprised me to learn they had a Chautauqua nearby and it was still active. There was also a society and auditorium in the early 1900's in DeFuniak Springs, Florida, which is where we first learned about these assemblies of like minds. This one was founded in 1885 and still survives today. Some of the original members' descendants still live on the premises. Chautaugua was an adult education movement in the United States, highly popular in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Named after the lake where the first one was held. Assemblies expanded and spread throughout rural America until the mid-1920s. This one in Illinois had speakers such as William Jennings Bryant, Billy Sunday, and a former Rough Rider. John Sousa's Band even played there. The storms went around us all day, but finally hit here around 8pm. Tomorrow we are going to try and do a long day and cover over a hundred miles with the help of the swift current in the Illinois River.