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
On Sunday, March 17, 2019, my column in the NKyTribune featured a narrative about the late Ed Smith, a celebrated Fireman aboard the Steamers AVALON and DELTA QUEEN who tended the fires beneath the hungry boilers generating steam, the life-giving blood of a steamboat.
My column chronicles the story of our relationship, from its tense beginnings on a summer morning in June 1959 to my final encounter with Ed in the autumn of 1972. Ending my comprehensive recollection of the St. Louis steamboatman, I concluded:…