How unlucky can one place be? Poor Cape Girardeau, a town in the US state of Missouri, was just getting over a great fire that, in 1916, destroyed much of the downtown when it was hit by a big freeze, leaving residents not only shivering in sub-zero temperatures, but without drinking water. And just when they thought nothing else could go wrong, along came the big flood of 1927, which is still the worst in US history.
The Cape, as it’s known locally, is a million miles from the bright lights of New York, Miami and Los Angeles, but this is the real America I’ve come in search of on a cruise into the US heartlands. It’s a fascinating
