More Save the Delta Queen Rallies
May 20, 2008
Rallies to save the Delta Queen will take place on:
Friday, May 23 at Henderson, Kentucky: Audubon Mill Park beginning at 1:30 p.m. Entertainment by a bluegrass band assembeled by the International Bluegrass Museum.
Monday, May 26 (Memorial Day) at Madison, Indiana: Madison Landing from noon to 1:00 p.m. Entertainment by the Ohio River Minstrels.
Thursday, June 12 at Marietta, Ohio: At the Public Landing in front of the Lafayette Hotel from 11:30 a.m. to 1:00 pm. Entertainment by The Musicians of Braeburn and the Treblemakers.
Please join one or all of these rallies and urge everyone you know to come out and join in!
The Delta Queen will in port for all three of these events.
May 28th, 2008 at 7:12 pm
Exerpt from my latest, and most informal, letter to Congress:
Hon. Sam Johnson, TX 3rd . . .
“. . . . Please do not believe the unmitigated hog-wash set forth by Rep. Oberstarr in his latest attempt to rob the American Public of this most valuable National Historic Landmark. The Delta Queen is no more “unsafe” than any other modern vessel on the waterways of the United States. Rep. Oberstarr’s reference, before Congress, to the Sultana disaster of 1865 was a stupid charade and a blatant insult to the intelligence of its members.
In addition to employment for its citizens, the US will have lost a vital piece of history if the Delta Queen is killed off in a shallow and and shameful display of politics.. . .”