[at-l] SW-KY hiking...

[bluetrail at aol.com (bluetrail@aol.com)]

 As a fourth generation Cairoite (my great-grandfather was Cairo's first paid fire chief)
 
kay-ro is okay if you're talking about Cairo, Georgia
 
If you're talking about Cairo, Illinois,
it's really 
 
Care-o
 
To make it hiking related, you can actually hike the levees all the way around Cairo; it sits in a bowl (think New Orleans), surrounded on all sides by earthen levees.  The Boy Scouts used to string them way out into Alexander County to make a 50-mile hike.  
 
Joan (Cairo High School '65)---very sober high school photo here
http://www.pilotlight2000.com/classof65/joanjarv.htm
 
bluetrail@aol.com
 
 
-----Original Message-----
From: Gary Ticknor <garyticknor@starpower.net>
To: bluetrail@aol.com
Cc: at-l@backcountry.net
Sent: Wed, 02 Nov 2005 14:13:50 -0500
Subject: Re: [at-l] SW-KY hiking...


Right, and pronounced: "kay-ro", not "Kye-ro", right? And with a big concrete steamship-shaped pavilion right at the junction, too! 
 
- Greenbriar 
 
>Joan >(born and raised in southern Illinois (4th generation)--Cairo, Illinois, to be exact--where the Mississippi & Ohio meet) 
> >