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“Turkey Creek, Mississippi lies at the very crossroads of America’s most noble and ignoble traditions. Established by emancipated slaves, the settlement began in 1866 as a long awaited promised land for a people denied all manner of dignity, even names, for fourteen generations. Their descendants have lived here, navigating American life and culture as free human beings and citizens for seven generations and counting. No less than the legacies of slavery, segregation or civil rights; environmental stewardship is not new in Turkey Creek. We live in a place that gets 70 inches of annual rainfall, has the largest fire ant colony in North America, threatens water moccasins every few yards in May and 30-foot storm surges from hurricanes. We’ve been making peace with coastal Mississippi’s ecology for a long time. This is our home. But our future is imperiled. Today our watershed is the crossroads between two competing visions for Mississippi: one that values communities, culture and the environment; and another that does not.” (01/29/08)