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Keith Tennant,
Factory Worker
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Like the story of Stapleton Wright , a steamboat pilot who ran the Confederate blockade on the Kanawha River.
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Jake Farley,
Truck Driver
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From steamboats, railroads, electrical motors and gasoline powered engines that we take for granted to electronic devices like the “palm pilot” you can’t do without.
Experience the feeling of standing behind a pilot’s wheel and imagine yourself piloting a steamboat.
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Shane Kelly,
Bar Tender
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To learn more CLICK HERE Want to pilot a steamboat, or canoe a river, or wander across more of America?
To learn more CLICK HERE Back to Table of Contents Want to pilot a steamboat, or canoe a river, or wander across more of America?
CLICK HERE Want to pilot a steamboat, or canoe a river, or wander across more of America?
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Jack Crawford,
WWII Veteran
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Later Clemens was a steamboat pilot on the Mississippi River until the American Civil War brought an end to travel on the river.
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Sasha Prevette,
Kindergarten student
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The pilot of their own boat did the same thing, turning the "Sentinel" into the shoreline to keep from colliding with the other steamboat.
Musician and steamboat pilot John Hardford tells the exciting story of the steamboat Virginia that took the wrong way while a flood and finally got stuck in a cornfield as it couldn't return to the river by time.
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