Interview: Beau Jennings – In Tribute to Will Rogers and the Verdigris

Interview: Beau Jennings – In Tribute to Will Rogers and the Verdigris

If History was your favourite class in school, raise your digital hand. Only two? Come on, the subject is not that dull. Now pay attention. Today, we are going to learn about a river called the Verdigris, which got its name from French traders who explored the region in the 18th century. They named it after the French phrase vert-de-gris (which breaks down to vert for “green” and gris for “grey”), because of the greenish-grey hue of its waters c…