Wednesday, July 19, 2006

Gratuitous Postcard of the day: Showboating

What's that coming around the bend in the river?
Postcard: Delta Queen on the upper  Mississippi Can it be? Why, yes it is! it's
Postcard:  Delta Queen at St. Louis, MO the Delta Queen! Isn't she a dandy? And the calliope
Postcard: Delta Queen calliope practically laughs across the water! Oh, no! It's not stopping for us!Postcard: Delta Queen aft
Say farewell to the Delta Queen, she's on her way to New Orleans...Postcard: Delta Queen

Ah, well, if we want to tread the boards of a paddle-wheeler, there's still the Rhododendron, the museum showboat, Postcard: Showboat up in Clinton, Iowa. I once saw a semi-pro production of "The Fantasticks", there, in my young and dissolute days. Life, then, was slow, and oh, so mellow. I could go back, again, I think.

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