While Cape Girardeau, Missouri is now the largest city in Southeastern Missouri it is still viewed mostly as a resort and must see day trip from St. Louis, Missouri or even Memphis, Tennessee.
Formally a port city and one of the original French Trading Posts, it is protected from the Mississippi by a massive floodwall with the high water mark from 1993 shown on the left post.
Although the commercial river traffic normally bypasses the town there is river access for anyone to land a boat for a visit. Of course the big problem is what to do with this humongous floodwall blocking the river view. The short answer is paint it.
All total there are murals on about a half mile of the floodwall. One area near downtown focuses on these Windows in Time. The southern section behind the Red House Interpretive Center shown above tries to idealize what you would see if the wall was not in the way.
Between the two are two huge murals with just two small sections shown here. Interpretive signs are located along the sidewalk in front of the murals which are interesting but get in the way photographically. The riverboat part of the Mississippi River Tails Mural is a merging of four photographs. I took 25 photographs of overlapping sections of the Missouri Wall of Fame and a panorama showing only three is shown here. The great news is that there is still most of the wall left to paint so there is plenty of space for future projects.