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We sat at the station in Memphis for about twenty minutes just before sun rise. I looked on the map and saw that the National Cicil Rights Museum was only about three blocks away. In 1968 that building was the Lorraine Motel where Martin Luther King was murdered in April. I was tempted to scoot over there and have a look but didn’t dare chance it an gave the train leave me.
    Steve Goodman, in his song “The City of New Orleans,” originally sung by Arlo Guthrie in 1971 and later by Willie Nelson, wrote a line “the graveyards of the rusted automobile.”  I would like to report nothing has changed in five decades.  Many junk yards full of rusted cars can be seen along these tracks.
     The picture below is of the sunrise over a cotton field just south of Memphis.  Some cotton fields have been harvested.  I hope to see someone harvesting.

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