The M/V Harriet Bishop is now tied off in the BB Riverboat fleet at Newport, Ky. Boat is reportedly for sale and owners chose the tepid warm climes of Newport rather than the cold ice of St. Paul as the better place to sell her.
The Magnolia Belle left Cincinnati on 10-18-06, south bound, locking down at Markland on 10-19-06 at 1600 hrs. and then vanished into that mysterious "Louisville triangle", present whereabouts unknown.
Bill,
I happened to see the MAGNOLIA BELLE southbound at our landing on the 19th, and got on the radio. I spoke with a female pilot/steersman (Capt Joe Baer was not in the pilothouse). She said they were laying-over in Madison to get supplies, then on to the Bethlehem Festival, then Louisville. She also said they were going to winter at Paducah.