W.P. Snyder, Jr. in the news

Aaron
I am sure that Steve and Barbara Hoffman would like that "another historic vessel" to be the Barbara H. and so do I.

Ed Ray
Dublin, Ohio

It appears that I "hoff" when I should have "huff" sorry Steve and Barbara.

ER

Who...?

Who's going to get the ball rolling, get things started, come ahead on both wheels, raise steam, initiate, galvanize, activate, activate, animate, arouse, commove, dynamize, elate, encourage, energize, enliven, exhilarate, fan, fire, fire up, foment, foster, galvanize, get going, get started, goad, grab, hook, impel, incite, inflame, innervate, innerve, inspire, instigate, jazz, juice, key up, motivate, move, pep up, perk up, pique, prod, prompt, provoke, quicken, rouse, send, set up, spark, spirit, spur, steam up, stir up, support, trigger, turn on, urge, vitalize, vivify, wake up, whet, and work up your worthy suggestion?

This is the only thing I've heard, sent to me on my computer from my husband after he had been river news surfing yesterday ...

http://www.wtap.com/news/headlines/6545402.html

Good news ...

The current Reflector holds an article about the fund raising and that they start in November 2007. Wait for your issue.

Carmen

Roget had his day! Captain Sam need never refer, relate, include, attribute, cite, allude, hand over, pass on, assign, commit, direct, ask of, resort to or point to him again.

"Alabama" Shipyard Sam,

Look I gave you a new nickname! Well the process of saving any inland historic vessel as all of us know starts with money. Efforts are still underway to find granting assistance. Once that piece of the puzzle has been establish then in many cases funds are distributed based on matching funds, volunteer work, and actual historic value of the project from the society or group seeking the grant in the first place. How was the Snyder so success in getting the money needed for repairs. Having State support was/is a huge factor, ad in a good media campaign through publications and the internet. A big piece is having people, involved with the river or not, understand that their very small tax deductable contribution can really have a huge impact. A $1 donation towards a matching grant from a good sized number of people could do a great deal towards historic preservation of any vessel. While financially I know we can't all help out, there are other ways that do not require money. Volunteering time to write an article for a local newspaper or historic minded publication explaining the history and importance of these vessels that are truly one of a kind and cannot simply be replaced. If anyone is interested in writing such an article I'm sure myself or any of the other volunteer crew would be happy to provide pictures of more historic information. But we really have to obtain a grant first. In addition alot of us are involved with other historical societies, clubs, etc. that may have other granting ideas that we have not thought to approach. If you have ideas please send them to me or to Capt. Steve Huffman. I do not like to post on here essentially begging for assistance but I feel very strongly, as I'm sure many of you that post here do, that the boat needs to be saved for future generations to see, hear, and touch. She is the last of her kind and can't be replaced. She deserves to continue her mission of warterborne commerce history and education through traveling the rivers and allowing visitors to see how these boats were built, operated, and crewed in the 1920's and 30's.

If any of you have thoughts about this matter please feel free to e-mail me off this board. Without assistance, in any form from the river community and beyond, I fear there is fading hope the m/v Barbara H will survive.

Thanks,

Aaron Richardson
volunteer first mate m/v Barbara H

[email protected] or [email protected]

S&D members, please note: Carmen, in Munich Germany, is telling us what is in this Reflector, and telling us to wait to see it!!!! Ain't the US mail grand????

Judy,

As I knew you haven´t received your copy yet I needed to do this posting :-)!

At least the Reflector is arriving on time. A couple of weeks ago I received to issues of the Waterways Journal, the one of the current week and one of last August!!!

Carmen

Aaron

Perhaps Barbara Huffman could collect "river tales" from "Steamboat.com" contributors and with editing include them into a river lord book. Anyone who has worked on the river has one or more and with some profession editing could make for some interesting if not hilarious reading among river folks. Should the book be a best seller it could more than "re-plate" the bottom of the Barbara H.
In return for publishing your work, a free will" donations might help also. I have several of my own as a young man decking on the Ohio and Green Rivers and finished my days hauling cars with the Commercial Barge Lines.
How about Steve and Barbara.

Ed Ray
Dublin, Ohio

A news story about the upcoming renovation of the SNYDER appears in today's issue of The Marietta Times at www.MariettaTimes.com.

W.P. Snyder Jr.

Thanks to Keith for the lead to the Marietta times article. I hope all our readers read the full article. Those of us on the restoration committe are glad it came about successful. The sad part is as it states in the article the museum and the Snyder are only open one and a half days a week and that only is for five months, May 26 throught October 31. That's a sad commentary on our times. We will spend 1.5 million on the boat and S & D has hundreds of thousands of dollars in exhibits and no real chance to see it all.

That is good news and bad news. I think the .orgers should know that S&D's J.Mack Gamble Fund has donated a large sum, how much is it now, toward the restoration. I think that should have made the paper's listing of donors too.

My Waterways Journal takes from five to fifteen or more days to traverse the 250 miles between St. Louis and Louisville! Occasionally I get two on the same day, about eleven days out.