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One of my gifts under the tree last Christmas was a tee shirt inscribed with the question: “Have you ever noticed how many towns are named after their water tower?”
It gave me a good laugh when I unwrapped it, and it also caused me to wonder when we started building the towers and putting our names on them. I’ve heard somewhere that naming began as a way to guide pilots in the early days of aviation, but I think it probably started earlier than that.

Several people can go for a walk along the same path and yet each one will see something different. Each person is looking in a different direction; one person looks down, another looks up, someone else is looking to the side, and another is watching other people.
What you see in life is dependent on where you are looking. Two people, in the exact same situation, can have completely different experiences. It all depends on what they are looking at. You are in complete control over where you look. If you don’t like what you’re seeing, look somewhere else.

Hinckley Street and the century-old Hinckley house in the old St. Landry Parish town of Washington are reminders that Oramel Hinckley was one of the most significant steamboat captains in the heyday of Bayou Courtableau.