In October of this year, the American Queen riverboat made a stop in Muscatine. I posted about it on social media but added little to the blog here for some reason. To bring things up to speed, this was a trial stop for the boat and visitors stopped at several places including the Pearl Button … Read more
It is strange how little has been written about the Upper Mississippi. The river below St. Louis has been described time and again, and it is the least interesting part. One can sit on the pilot-house for a few hours and watch the low shores, the ungainly trees and the democratic buzzards, and then one … Read more
Every old river town along the Mississippi has a rich history…many were involved in trading and transport of goods (and still are). And this goes back as far as the late 1700’s when Julien Dubuque arrived in Northeast Iowa. Lumber was big back in the late 1800’s. For Muscatine (where I live), the harvesting of … Read more
The American Countess riverboat made it’s first voyage through the area the other day. It was met with some interesting weather. After an incredibly hot, dry, and muggy few days, storms broke out all over the place and we got an abundance of welcome rain.