The small birds in the back swamps of the Delta know.

I know the gate and the house and the back swamps of the Delta.

During the move, the station continued operating from its original studios on TV Road in Florence's Back Swamp section.

In addition to the main drainage systems, there are the Omoku river and many back swamps, cut offs and interconnecting streams which form a maze of drainage channels superimposed on the area.

The station went on-the-air October 18, 1954 on VHF channel 8 from a transmitter at its original studios on TV Road in the Back Swamp section of Florence.

The local population, of old, had already settled in this area and were able to produce a variety of crops (including tree fruits), using hand-dug drains running from the river into the land until reaching the back swamps.

New Orleans, the demographers think, has begun to shrink back to its historic dimensions, the ones that existed before a post-World War II expansion through the back swamps, and the ones that visitors know best.

Land records show that beginning in the second half of the 18th century, persons since identified as ancestral Lumbee took titles to land described in relation to Drowning Creek (Lumber River) and prominent swamps such as Ashpole, Long, and Back Swamp.

However, he failed to catch the boomerang and instead it was caught by Boston Brand, who ended up dying in the process and used his final act to move his white power ring to Alec Holland and bring back Swamp Thing and cleanse the Green from Nekron's influence.

"If you're planning on having more hurricanes, the most sensible thing is to return to the areas that existed before the pumps drained the back swamps," said the geographer Peirce Lewis, whose mid-1970's history of the landscape of New Orleans, written as New Orleans East was being built, sounded alarm bells about the new development.