Tuesday - May 25: Continuing her journey to bring attention to the disparity in education of women compared to men around the world swimmer Mimi Hughes passed Wellsville early Tuesday afternoon. Her goal is to swim the length of the Ohio River from it's beginning in Pittsburgh, PA, to where it meets the Mississippi River.
It's a 981 mile swim that according to the papers she is taking it in stages of 20 miles per day. She plans to end the swim in Cairo, IL, on July 17. A resident of Taft, TN, Hughes is a college professor at Motlow College in Lynchburg, TN.
After spending a couple of days in East Liverpool Hughes starter her second leg of her journey near Ohioville at the 40 mile marker. We got this picture between 6th & 7th St. on Riverside around noon on Tuesday. It's not the best picture but if you look closely you can see her arm sticking up to make one more stroke toward her goal.
She was making good time passing the ville. Wonder what she did at the New Cumberland locks? Did they open the gates and let her swim through?
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