Cape GirardeauS
outheast Missouri State University was a sprawling campus that dominated a good portion of Cape Girardeau. It had a rustic collegiate charm, and Shake kept thinking that it reminded him of the mythical Faber College from Animal House as he drove around looking for a convenient place to park his truck and trailer. He finally found a student lot with a friendly attendant who pointed him to an open slot at the rear near some parked RVs. He even provided a campus map and marked out the way to the library.
The public records section of the library contained a large section on SEMO history. Shake paged idly through some musty old compilations, reading the occasional snippet that caught his eye. He’d never known that Cape Girardeau derived from Jean Jacques Girardo, a French fur
