If it changes color, call a dermatologist.
A little piece of Kentucky is contained within Missouri. “The Kentucky Bend” was connected to the rest of the state until the New Madrid Earthquake of 1812 relocated the Mississippi — the enormous quake also caused parts of the river to run backwards and formed Tennessee’s Reelfoot Lake. The Bend is just one of a handful of border irregularities around the country, with some as familiar as Michigan’s Upper Peninsula and some as obscure as the Delaware Wedge. I don’t know what the deal is with the chunk missing out of Virginia just south of Damascus, but I do recall that it delayed my long-awaited passage into Virginia on the Appalachian Trail by about thirty minutes.
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