Winter Passage on the Mississippi

A lone American flag flutters in the biting winter wind as thick sheets of river ice drift down the Mississippi. The warm glow of late light skims across the frozen surface, contrasting the cold steel of the barge below. It’s a quiet moment of grit and resilience on one of America’s great working rivers—where commerce, weather, and symbolism meet in motion.

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