Introduction: Finding Pinhook
The Introduction provides an overview of what happened in southern Missouri in 2011 when the Army Corps of Engineers breached the levee at the Birds Point-New Madrid Floodway in Mississippi County. Two opposing narratives are discussed: the one published and celebrated by the CORPS as a successful diversion of the waters from Cairo, Illinois, to southern Missouri, and the counter-narrative of anger and frustration told by the displaced former residents of the destroyed town, Pinhook. The Introduction discusses the field research done by the authors to document the flooding and follow the former residents to their current homes, now six years later with no government assistance. The authors utilized oral history and documentary filmmaking to tell the Pinhook story.
Annual data summary for 1983 CERC Field Research Facility / by Herman C. Miller ... [et al.] ; prepared for Department of the Army, US Army Corps of Engineers.
