Save the Delta Queen: A private initiative to save the steamboat Delta Queen A private initiative to save the steamboat Delta Queen
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    I have been in love with the DELTA QUEEN since I was a little girl growing up on the Ohio River. We could hear her blow for the lock above us when we were kids. Her whistle was different than the towboats. We knew that we were not to go to the river without an adult, so we’d be jumping up and down, screaming and yelling for someone to take us to the river.
    Finally the year I turned 50 (they say life begins at 50), I thought about if I could do anything I wanted to do in the whole wide world what would it be? And you know what? Immediately, I thought about how much I had always wanted to ride the DELTA QUEEN. I took my first trip on her in September 2001. I just completed my 16th trip on her and have fallen even deeper in love with her, her crew and all she represents!     — Jo Ann Schoen

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  • Share your memories!

    Would you like to share your Delta Queen memories here, too? Please send me an e-mail with your memories (keep it short, please!) along with a picture of yourself, or alternatively a Delta Queen picture from the time your memories are dating back. E-Mail: franz.neumeier@steamboats.org

Tell the National Trust how much you want the Delta Queen to be saved!

Mar 15, 2009

Contrary to what newspapers have been reporting over the last couple of weeks, the Delta Queen is not dead in the water in Chattanooga. The fight to put her back in operation continues, and the National Trust for Historic Preservation is doing all they can to help us. They have just added a comment section to the Delta Queen item on their website, asking people to share their memories of trips on the boat.

To support the Delta Queen, we’d like to ask everyone to go to this website and participate. But we’d like to you to go one step farther: Please also mention the importance of keeping the Delta Queen alive and plying our waterways as she has done proudly and safely for 82 years, not tied up to a dock in Chattanooga or anyplace else. And if you live in a river town please stress the economic benefits the Queen and her passengers bring to your community.
 
The Preservation Nation website has an enormous and influential audience that cares deeply about protecting our country’s historic treasures. This is a golden opportunity to send them a loud, clear S.O.S.
 
http://www.preservationnation.org/travel-and-sites/sites/southern-region/delta-queen-steamboat.html
 
Thank you all for your continued devotion to the Queen’s cause. I am confident that if we stay the course just a little while longer, we will win this battle.

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