Ecology of a Cracker Childhood
Altamaha River
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The Altamaha River is Georgia's largest river and the second largest river basin on the Atlantic seaboard. The Ray family had a couple of close calls in the river—one when a boat sank that they were in and another when Dell Ray, who couldn't swim, fell in. He was saved by his father.