Watershed: Herman Murrah and the Pascagoula River Swamp

Nominee for the 2025 Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters Award for Life Writing

The Pascagoula River is the largest unobstructed river in the contiguous United States. Because of this lack of restraint, the river has been left to rise and fall naturally with the seasons, overflowing annually into the adjoining bottomland forest. This phenomenon makes the Pascagoula River one of the wildest rivers, surrounded by some of the most ecologically diverse woodlands, in North America.

Herman ...