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Editor's note: After more than 10 years of writing weekly articles focusing on steamboats and river history, Keith Norrington is retiring as the author of the WJ's Old Boat Column. This is his final column. In the Holy Bible, the book ot Ecclesi-astes imparts to us that everything has its time on this earth. And so it also goes with Riverman's Bible columnists. It hardly seems possible that I have now been involved with The Waterways Journal for 50+ years. I became a subscriber in 1967 (age 13) at the encouragement of Miss Ruth Ferris (1897-1993), whom I regard as my main mentor of steamboat and river history. When I submitted the $5 fare for a subscription, I never dreamed that my name would appear five decades later on the masthead as a regular contributor. |