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Captain Robert Mitchell and Steamboat Natchez: A Five-Decade Love Affair
When a scrappy teenager from the Desire Project landed a job as a janitor on a boat nearly half a century ago, no one could have imagined the epic voyage ahead.
– by Mark Orfila
The Music Woman on the Steamboat Natchez
Few get to meet the woman who plays the most unusual - and loudest - instrument in New Orleans. French Quarter Journal goes behind the scenes and up top of the Natchez to watch Debbie Fagnano in action.
- story by Rheta Grimsley Johnson
- photos by Ellis Anderson
Strong as the Currents
Meet the hardy folk who ply the waters of the country's "last frontier" in Melody Golding's new book Life Between the Levees.
by Scott Naugle
photos by Melody Golding