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原文传递 Charleston Sternwheel Regatta Is Revived For 2022

题名：	Charleston Sternwheel Regatta Is Revived For 2022
正文语种：	eng
作者：	SHELLEY BYRNE
摘要：	Twenty boats have already registered for the Charleston Sternwheel Regatta, which is returning to West Virginia for the first time since 2008 and expected to draw an estimated 250,000 people, making it the largest event in the state. The five-day festival June 30-July 4 has a renewed focus on river-related activities, including towboat tours from AEP River Operations, said Bryan Hughes, one of the festival commissioners. It will also include the unveiling of a plaque honoring four captains instrumental in the formation of the festival in 1971: Capt. O. Nelson Jones, Capt. Charles T. Jones, Capt. Lawson W. Hamilton Jr. and Capt. Harry F. White. Nelson Jones came up with the idea for the festival when he was 13 years old. "He wanted to see sternwheel races on the river," said his widow, Capt. Robyn Strickland Jones. "Of course he was a child, and nobody really wanted to listen to him, but he knew the mayor's secretary, Henrietta Cook. They had become friends, so she actually went with him to the mayor to make the proposal for the regatta. She got the mayor to agree, and the first regatta race was five sternwheel boats."
出版年：	2022
期刊名称：	The Waterways Jouranl
卷：	136
期：	3
页码：	50-51