Old friend, the late John Hartford, wrote a fascinating little book some years back called, if ya remember, "Steamboat In A Cornfield"--about the sternwheel Str. Virginia going aground in a cornfield---and the heroic efforts that eventually re-floated her.

Also, I photographed a steamboat high and dry near Savanna, Illinois back when I was singing on steamboats on the Mississippi River from 1986 to 1997. Sublime times were those...

That boat (THE WEBBER) was deemed a hazzard and was dismantled in the late 1980s. By then souvenir hunters had pretty much stripped her of everything worth having. Trees had grown up all around her and I doubt she ever would've refloated hemmed in that way.--- But the big flood in '93 might've made the vessel more dangerous to navigation than she had been through the years. All that's left of her are my photos. --

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