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02/04/2010 11:29 am
Here at the pipe organ works, things are calming down on this Good Friday as our technicians have completed all of the organ tunings throughout our 9 state service region. A few last minute service calls to "tweak trumpets" and requests to make other minor adjustments have come in as organists are practicing their grand and glorious "all the stops pulled out" music of Easter.
However you choose to celebrate it, HAPPY EASTER!
03/04/2010 8:59 am
Happy Easter to all of you!
Carmen, Franz and Leonie
04/04/2010 5:28 pm
From the cold reaches of Castine, ME, I would like to wish everyone on here a Happy Easter. Today also marks a very special day in steamboat history that many people may not know. It was today, 38 years ago, that my Dad stepped out onto the levee in New Orleans for the first time ever, saw the derelict Toulouse Street Wharf, and thought, 'hey, this would be a great place for a sternwheel steamboat' He called his Dad, told him the plan, and the rest is history.
04/04/2010 6:30 pm
Derelict wharves of NOLA
Probably a lot of people don't realize that the whole east bank was lined with contiguous wharves/sheds until Moon Landrieu opened up the area now known as the Moonwalk in front of Jackson Square. That was the former Dumaine St. Wharf, where the DQ often stayed on her NOLA roundtrips. So the river was not visible from the city unless you walked through the sheds. Thank goodness your dad took a look there at Toulouse St.! He nailed it: location, location, location, and a city in which history is important. Do you know why your father was in NOLA in the first place? April is a great month for the NATCHEZ: the 4th your father's inspiration, the 12th her christening, the 13th her first trip. Travis notes the beginning of the BELLE's 96th season today, but it is hard to believe the NATCHEZ is 35 already. Long live these Ladies of the River!
04/04/2010 9:47 pm
Yes, I do know why he was down South. In 1971, we had some drydock problems up here in Lake George. Paul Crandall, the man who designed our drydock, told Dad that he was holding classes on drydock upkeep in Mobile during the spring of 1972. Dad came down for that and instead of turning into the airport to go home, he kept going straight and ended up in New Orleans.