Please join us for a reception honoring Don Waldon, author of Journey to the River, on June 4 at 4 p.m. at the Agnes Zaiontz Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway Transportation Museum.

For over two decades, Waldon served as the Administrator of the Tennessee-Tombigbee Waterway Authority, headquartered in Columbus, Mississippi, and his memoir is a first-hand account of the political debates and engineering challenges posed by the development of the 234-mile long navigation channel which joins the Tennessee River with the Tombigbee River through Northeast Mississippi and West Alabama.

When it was completed after 12 years of construction in 1984, the Tenn-Tom was the largest, most complex water resources project ever built, costing nearly $2 billion. Today, the Tenn-Tom is used for shipping cargo, managing wildlife, and outdoor recreation, with nearly 3 million people visiting parks along the waterway each year.