Flora, MS. February 25, 2011—Keith Plunkett, Mississippi paddler and organizer of Lucy’s Revenge, will be in Clarksdale for an excursion on the Sunflower River this Saturday and Sunday. The event will raise money and awareness for the Mississippi Chapter of the Alzheimer’s Association, and is timed to coincide with Sunflower River Month. Local group Friends of the Sunflower River is a sponsor of the trip. Plunkett, along with his wife Sharon, will be joined by fellow paddlers at Quapaw Canoe Company for a pre-launch meeting at 9:00 am Saturday morning. The group of paddlers will paddle from Eagles Nest to Clarksdale on Saturday, and continue to Hopson on Sunday.
The effort will continue in the Delta in March before moving into waterways in Southwest Mississippi in April. The full list of rivers and dates are available online at http://www.lucysreveng.com/.
During the trips the Yazoo County native and Flora resident will meet with Alzheimer’s patients and caregivers in each region, and will highlight ongoing efforts by the Alzheimer’s Association and medical professionals to defeat the disease.
Plunkett will also speak with groups across the state to raise awareness and money to aid families affected by the disease with support services. He expects to complete 876 miles by the end of the project in early July. Stories, videos, and photos are posted regularly to the website, www.lucysrevenge.com .
The project is named in memory of Plunkett’s Grandmother, Lucy Plunkett, who suffered from Alzheimer’s before succumbing to the disease in 1993. The matriarch of the Plunkett family reared six children, and oversaw the upbringing of 9 grandchildren. She was a housewife and an active member of her church and the rural community of Little Yazoo in Yazoo County.
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