The riverboat captain is a storyteller. Captain Don Sanders shares the stories of his long association with the river — from discovery to a way of love and life. This a part of a long and continuing story.
By Capt. Don SandersSpecial to NKyTribune
While rootin’ through an old trunk, recently, a fading manuscript slipped out of a moldering leather satchel and slid to the floor. Reaching down and retrieving the yellowing document, I recognized that it was an account written half a century ago by a long-deceased former comrade of mine from my early steamboat days. After some deliberation, I decided to share it in this week’s river column.
A Recollection. (Written in 1974 or 1975.)…