Spinning Pins

"From Baton Rouge to New Orleans, the great sugar-plantations border both sides of the river all the way, and stretch their league-wide levels back to the dim forest walls of bearded cypress in the rear. Shores lonely no longer. Plenty of dwellings all the way, on both banks—standing so close together, for long distances,

that the broad river lying between the two becomes a sort of spacious street. A most homelike and happy-looking region.


And now and then you see a pillared and porticoed great manor-house, embowered in trees."

~Mark Twain~