Hi, leeneia - in this part of the U.S. (California), a weir is a low dam that often has water flowing over the top. I had a friend who liked to "shoot the weir" with his canoe on the Kings river near Fresno. I thought he was crazy to want to go over the top of the dam in a canoe, but he was an Okie country boy who liked that kind of thrill.

That was in the mid-1970's. I wonder if there still are people in the Central Valley who speak with pride of their Okie heritage. I enjoyed my five years there, walking in the footsteps of Steinbeck and Saroyan and Woody Guthrie.

I still think he was crazy.

-Joe Offer-