Kat, yes, that's our son Chris in those pictures that are labeled with that name on 'em. He worked on the steamboat Julia Belle Swain back in the '80s, probably on my coattails. It was his summer job---and he kept on doing it right on through his college years. For a couple of years he was a deckhand. One year he was cook for 100 people a day---two meals a day and snacks. Then he was first mate for a couple of years. In a real sense, we went to work together during those important formative years of his up-bringing, just like in other centuries when fathers and sons did that as a matter of course. I got to watch him date about 25 or 30 of the waitresses. It was cool as it could be. And we both lived through it, coming out on the other side really liking each other---just like we went into the adventure.

Chris is 37 now.

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