Topic starter
11/02/2008 12:17 am
This is a final reminder that Capt. Doc Hawley will venture up here to the cold snowy miserable Midwest from his comfortable French Quarter confines on Feb. 22. He will be the featured speaker at the annual Henry Farnam dinner, an event put on by a coalition of community groups. To reserve a dinner/speech ticket, see: http://www.riveraction.org/nuke73/mo...article&sid=43 . I will be having an open house that afternoon from noon to 4 for anyone interested in looking through some steamboat stuff and visiting with other river people. At this time I have no idea who, or how many, will be attending. Please, if you are coming to Rock Island and the MUMR museum, please email me of your intentions, so I can have enough libations and snacks available - and no, Pat Traynor will NOT be allowed to mix the Planters Punch this time - we need to be awake for the evening's festivities. Hope to see some .org people on the 22nd. Let me know if you are coming: [email protected]
11/02/2008 4:30 am
Well heck, Judy - I was looking forward to mixing the Punch! Guess I'll have to make do just eating chocolate chip cookies. Since I'm coming all the way from Florida, all you Upper Miss steamboaters better attend this event also! See you soon!
Pat
11/02/2008 4:35 am
If the winter weather holds out....
-9*F as I type this...all after a 16" snow fall midweek!
Yes, the Upper Rock River is well frozen over!
Topic starter
11/02/2008 2:38 pm
Yes, when the organizers asked me to try to get some out of town river people to attend, I pointed out that February in the Midwest is not a good time to commit to traveling... hey, its warmed up to 3 here today and we've only got 10 inches of snow on the ground. Of course, after the melting and a quick freeze, our sidestreets are now skating rinks. It doesn't help my attitude that when I left NOLA last week it was 70... and when Doc called Friday to see about my trip home, he had to point out how beautiful it still was in the Crescent City! We've got 10 days to melt some snow and get those temps up. Heck we might even hit 20 by then - and we know Doc's presence will warm things up!