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Bernstein Still ‘In Love With’ River, More Than 50 Years Later Bernstein Still ‘In Love With’ River, More Than 50 Years Later
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Bernstein Still ‘In Love With’ River, More Than 50 Years Later
June 17, 2023

In the summer of 1970, Alan Bernstein “fell in love with the river,” as he puts it, and unwittingly spawned a career on it that has lasted more than 50… Read More

BB Riverboats Resumes Scenic Cruises

May 29, 2020

BB Riverboats, operator of the Belle of Cincinnati and River Queen, resumed service from its Newport, Ky., dock on May 25, with precautions to protect passengers from the novel coronavirus… Read More

The General Allen The General Allen on the Upper Mississippi River. (Keith Norrington collection)

The General Allen

September 6, 2019

Originally the pleasure steamboat Minnesota, this petite sternwheeler was a product of the Howard Shipyard at Jeffersonville, Ind. In the autumn of 1915, Edmonds J. Howard, proprietor of the famed… Read More

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