Nine excursion vessels attended the America’s River Roots festival in Cincinnati October 8–12. Two of those were steamboats: the iconic, 111-year-old Belle of Louisville, a bona fide national historic landmark,… Read More
Capt. Fred Way
While attending and participating in the very enjoyable 2025 IMX in Nashville, I was talking with Zac Metcalf, the associate publisher of The Waterways Journal. We were standing outside the… Read More
There are times when a single photo can cause a flood of memories to wash through the mind. This happened recently with a photo depicting a partially beached hull with… Read More
In 1910, the Howard Shipyards at Jeffersonville built a trim sternwheeler named Nashville to run in the Evansville–Nashville–Paducah trade for W.W. Parminter of Nashville, Tenn. The wood-hulled riverboat measured 155… Read More


