History Longtime Cairo Resident Reflects on Four Decades On The River WSIU Public Broadcasting | By Kevin Boucher Published December 17, 2018 at 6:00 AM CST Facebook Twitter LinkedIn Email Listen • 7:12 1 of 2 A Barge On The Mississippi River. Courtesy of Shutterstock 2 of 2 A Navigation Marker At Fort Defiance State Park In Winter. Photograph Taken January 2018. WSIU/Kevin Boucher On this edition of WSIU IN FOCUS, we visit with a longtime Cairo Resident, Claude Joseph Berry, who worked on the barges for over 40 years.