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
Looking back into the ever-deepening well of river memories, so much is available to remember. Just reach in and grab a handful.
January was never the best month on the river, with bitter cold, floods, accidents, and destruction. A month better spent enjoying warmer climes elsewhere. But life goes on on the river. Somebody has to be out there, like it or not.
My grandmother, Edith LaVelma Rice Sanders Rosenfeldt, loved the river from the time she grew up along the Ohio River, where she soon recognized the various steamboats by their distinctive whistles. As a lass, Edith followed her older brothers, who dove and swam from the Greene Line Steamer’s wharfboat at New Richmond, Ohio…