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U.S.S. Kid Homecoming Celebration Delayed USS Kidd (Photo courtesy of the USS Kidd Veterans Museum)

U.S.S. Kid Homecoming Celebration Delayed

May 15, 2026

The U.S.S. Kidd Veterans Museum announced May 13 that the “Welcome Home” celebration planned for the return of the U.S.S. Kidd has been postponed. Dangerously low river levels on… Read More

A Tragedy Greatly Unnoticed Famous (and only known) photo of the crowded steamer Sultana at Helena, Ark. April 26, 1865. Library of Congress. (Photo by Helena photographer T.W. Bankes)

Famous (and only known) photo of the crowded steamer Sultana at Helena, Ark. April 26, 1865. Library of Congress. (Photo by Helena photographer T.W. Bankes)

A Tragedy Greatly Unnoticed

May 1, 2026

Mid-to-late April 1865 was full of news. President Abraham Lincoln was assassinated, the hunt for and eventual killing of his assassin, John Wilkes Booth, was ongoing, and the Civil… Read More

WISTA Hosts Event With Maritime Historian Lincoln Paine Lincoln Paine, author of “The Sea and Civilization: A Maritime History of the World,” speaks at WISTA luncheon March 12 in New Orleans. (Photo by Frank McCormack)

Lincoln Paine, author of “The Sea and Civilization: A Maritime History of the World,” speaks at WISTA luncheon March 12 in New Orleans. (Photo by Frank McCormack)

WISTA Hosts Event With Maritime Historian Lincoln Paine

March 20, 2019

The New Orleans chapter of Women’s International Shipping & Trading Association (WISTA) hosted a lunch & learn March 12 at the Jones Walker Law Firm in downtown New Orleans… Read More