The model of the Hill, which is 3 feet tall and 2 feet wide, is more than 60 years old, the handiwork of Melvin “Mac” Frederickson. A jack of many trades, Frederickson whittled and sawed and sanded ...

Stored in a Cape Girardeau chicken house for about half a century, the 6-foot-long wooden model of a side-wheeler steamboat was in ruin when Jo Renfrow started looking for a new home for the creation.

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Jack Beahan III, a resident of Bonne Terre, recently honored an old friend, Richard Loomis of Cape Girardeau, with the dedication of a model steamboat paddle wheeler named after him. The craft was ...

Looking at the state seal of Florida, one will notice hibiscus flowers, a Seminole woman, a Sabal Palm and, in the background, an ocean-going steamboat that seems to glow as the sun sets behind it.

Fred Beseler is the talent behind bringing back to life the Winona County Historical Society's collection of paddle wheel steamboat models. He gave a presentation on June 21 at the Winona County ...

After being closed for months, the Pender County Museum in Burgaw has reopened with two new exhibits on the steamboat era and the Canetuck School, which is one of the best preserved Rosenwald Schools ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... STEAMBOAT SPRINGS, Colo.—Clouds filled the sky Sept. 23 above the Yampa Valley and rested atop Mount Werner, obscuring the view of Thunderhead Lodge from the ...