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Welcome back, Steamboat Days Festival We are very excited to be announcing the return of the Steamboat Days Festival to Jeffersonville after 15 years away. Our committee began meeting and organizing for this event more than 18 months ago and we are very proud of the product that we will be presenting to residents and visitors Oct. 17-19 After a decade-and-a-half hiatus, this festival will be returning bigger and better than ever. The festival will coincide with the completion of the Big 4 Station Park at the foot of the Big 4 walking bridge ramp, and will be in conjunction with Louisville’s Centennial Festival of Riverboats and its celebration of the Belle of Louisville’s 100th birthday. The 2014 Steamboat Festival will have something for everyone. Our Art Village will contain a wide variety of mediums such as sculptures, photography, wood, clay, floral, jewelry and many more. The Writer’s Block will have award-winning authors signing and reading excerpts from their latest novels. If you are looking for healthy activities for the whole family, visit our family fun zone where you can climb the rock wall, sail through the air on the “Zip Line” or leap around in the inflatable bounce houses. You can enjoy some of the finest music the area has to offer, from the Bluegrass sounds of the 23 String Band to the classic rock ‘n’ roll of the Louisville Crashers. Thank you to everyone who provided the committee with memories of past Steamboat

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Days Festivals and ideas for the current and future festivals. Special thanks to Jeffersonville’s Urban Enterprise Zone, City Council and Redevelopment Commission, which each gave $20,000 to the project, as well as Jeffboat, which also donated $20,000.

Steamboat Days Festival Advisory Committee Sara Schutz Lisa Gill Connie Sellers Claudia Gatewood Candy Stewart Matt Owen Shane Corbin Jay Ellis Paul Northam Lucy Daleo Janice Molnar Rebecca Markoski Rick Lovan

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WHAT’S INSIDE

PARADE INFO . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .5 FESTIVAL SCHEDULE . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .6 STEAMBOAT DAYS RETURNS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .7 JEFFBOAT HISTORY . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .10 FESTIVAL MAP . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16 HOWARD STEAMBOAT MUSEUM . . . . . . . . . . . .20 LIST OF ARTISTS AND WRITERS . . . . . . . . . . . .22 DEMONSTRATING ARTISTS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .23 FESTIVAL OF RIVERBOATS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .27 LIVE MUSIC PROFILES . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .30

STEAMBOAT PINS AVAILABLE Take home a festival keepsake. Commemorative pins, with the design pictured here, will be available for $5 at the information booth, located on Riverside Drive [see map on page 16].

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PARADE GRAND MARSHALS

JEFF/GRC 13-14 SOFTBALL TEAM LITTLE LEAGUE WORLD SERIES PARTICIPANTS Jeff/GRC’s age 13-14 softball All-Stars represented their hometown all the way to the Little League World Series in Kirkland, Wash. this summer. The girls first captured the District 5 and Indiana state titles in tournaments at Clarksville Little League. In central region play at Akron, Ohio, the All-Stars lost their opening game but battled back through the elimination bracket to win the region crown and earn a World Series berth. At Kirkland, Jeff/GRC went 2-2 in pool play and advanced to the World Series quarterfinal before falling to Arizona, 4-2. Team members are Juliette Schuur, Kaylee Strong, Kurin Worgull, Faith Denig, Casey Schweitzer, Lizzy Coons, Camryn Teague, Jordynne Durbin, Amy Steinmetz, Jennah Tincher, Jennifer Peffley and Meghan Lay. Manager is Jason Schuur; Assistant coaches are Todd Teague and Jeff Peffley.

CATCH THE TEAM AT THE STEAMBOAT DAYS PARADE • The Steamboat Days Parade begins at 11 a.m. Oct. 18 along Court Avenue, with a 11:30 celebration at Warder Park. Awards will be given at noon.

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STEAMBOAT DAYS SCHEDULE SPECIAL EVENTS • The Steamboat Days 10K & Family Fun Run will be held Oct. 18. The 10K begins at 8:30, with the two-mile fun run/walk starting at 8:40. • The Steamboat Days Parade begins at 11 a.m. Oct. 18 along Court Avenue, with a 11:30 celebration at Warder Park. Awards will be given at noon. • Sugar Maples Fall Festival — will be held from 10:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. Oct. 18 near the business on Maple Street.

BEER WINE AND FOOD • Food vendors will be open all three days at various locations around the festival. These open at 11 a.m. and close as late as 10 p.m. Oct. 17-18 and 5 p.m. Oct. 19; The Overlook Beer Garden will be open from 5 to 10 p.m. Oct. 17 and noon to 10 p.m.; the craft brew tent will feature 30 local and regional seasonal brews. It will be open from 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. Oct. 17-18 in Cluckers parking lot; the City Pride Wine Garden will be located at Glossbrenner Garden and is open 7 to 10 p.m. Oct. 17-18.

RIVERSTAGE SCHEDULE [SEE PAGE 30 FOR BAND DETAILS] OCT. 17 • Juggernaut Jug Band — 6 to 7 p.m. • Appalatin — 7:30 to 8:30 p.m. • 23 String Band — 9 to 10:30 OCT. 18 • Fiddle Fest — 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. [see page 31 for more information] • The Hart Strings — 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. • Caribou — 6 to 7 p.m. • Juice Box Heroes — 7:30 to 8:30 p.m. • The Louisville Crashers — 9 to 10:30 p.m. OCT. 19 • noon to 2 p.m. — Dance-A-Thon featuring DanceNation, Simmonds Performing Arts, SIGS, RDA and Kids ROCK the Boat • No True Lies — 2 to 2:45 p.m. • Black Friday — 3:05 to 3:50 p.m. • Forever Fades Away — 4:10 to 5 p.m.

OTHER LIVE MUSIC • The Craft Brew Tent at Cluckers will feature

live music from 6 to 9 p.m. Oct. 17 and R&R will play from 2 to 5 p.m. and Josh & Holly from 6 to 9 p.m. Oct. 18.

ART VILLAGE AT BIG FOUR STATION OCT. 17 • Art booths — 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. • Live entertainment — 4 to 7 p.m. OCT. 18 • Art booths — 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. • Live music — Corydon Dulcimer Society, noon to 1:30 • Live entertainment — 2 to 7 p.m. OCT. 19 • Art booths — 11 a.m. to 5 p.m.

SPRING STREET HAPPENINGS • Craft booths open at 11 a.m. each day of the festival. They close at 10 p.m. Oct. 17-18 and 5 p.m. Oct. 19. A Cut-A-Thon begins at 11 a.m. Oct. 18-19, ending at 6 p.m. Oct. 18 and 5 p.m. Oct. 19.

ART DEMONSTRATORS • Art demonstrations will take place around the festival from 3 to 6 p.m. Oct. 17, 3 to 6:30 p.m. Oct. 18 and 1 to 6 p.m. Oct. 18. Demonstrations include: stone carving, blacksmithing, glass-blowing, boat building, wood turning, an aerosol muralist and a time capsule.

WRITER’S BLOCK • Open from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Oct. 17-18 and 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Chestnut Street; balloon stage entertainment will take place from noon to 6 p.m. the first two days and noon to 4 p.m. Oct. 19.

FAMILY FUN ZONE • The Family Fun Zone at Colston Park will open at 11 a.m. each day, closing at 7 p.m. Oct. 17-18 and 5 p.m. Oct. 19. It will feature the Big Four Train, Eurobungy, an obstacle course, a bounce house, Field of Dreams pony rides, a climbing wall and a zip line.

SUNNY SIDE BALLOON GLIMMER • The balloon glimmer will take place from 5 to 7 p.m. Oct. 18 at Big Four Station park.

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Jeffersonville excited about Steamboat Days festival relaunch

excited myself.” The mayor theorizes that the festival JEFFERSONVILLE — When Mayor Mike embedded itself into people’s minds not just Moore spoke to Jeffersonville residents because of its impressive 26-year run, but during his 2011 campaign, one because it felt unique to the city. of the things people continually “We’re built along the Ohio River. SO YOU KNOW brought up was Steamboat Our history is tied to steam• General Steamboat Days. boats. It always has been,” Festival Days hours are Residents told the then-candiMoore said. “I think that makes 11 a.m. to 10 p.m. Oct. date they missed the defunct this festival different than a lot of 17-18 and 11 a.m. to 5 annual event, which was held p.m. Sunday. The parade other festival. It’s ours.” will be held at 11 a.m. from 1973 until 1999. They Oct. 18 on Spring Street. Steamboat Days returns to the wanted to see it return in better Jeffersonville waterfront and Visit shape than it had left. Now, downtown Oct. 17-19 with a jeffsteamboatdays.com residents and tourists alike will for more information. renewed focus on the arts and a have the opportunity to see just commitment to family friendlithat as Jeffersonville breathes ness. The three-day festival piggybacks off new life into the beloved festival. the Centennial Festival of Riverboats, which “I have received a lot of comments asking if runs Oct. 14-19 in Louisville. we would ever bring back Steamboat Days,” said Moore. “I’m happy to bring it back. I’m SEE FESTIVAL, PAGE 8 BY APRIL CORBIN

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Both festivals are free and open to the public. Steamboat Days will utilize the recently completed Big Four Station park and nearby blocks. It will feature a juried art village, live art demonstrations, musical concerts on the RiverStage, a children’s area, a parade, and wine and craft beer gardens.

THE RETURN

Shane Corbin, director of planning and zoning for Jeffersonville and a member of the Steamboat Days organizing committee, said these offerings are a response to the complaints attendees had about the festival in its final years. “It turned into a poor quality event, more

like a county fair than a festival in the heart of a city,” he said. “With the junkier vendors, the crowd got rowdier, more of a party crowd, and it became less family friendly.” That played into the decision from the planning committee not to allow any local business or politically affiliated vendors. “There are other opportunities for that stuff,” said SHANE CORBIN Corbin. “This is a festival for residents. We didn’t want to have an atmosphere where somebody is trying to sell you something the whole time.” Instead, the juried art village will feature booths of local artists and crafters. While these vendors will all be selling their wares, organizers expect it will Big Four Station park will be utilized for the Steamboat Days Festival, including for the Family Fun Zone and the Art Village. It’s bounded by Mulberry, Maple and Pearl streets.

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through after the steamboat wouldn’t commit to making Jeffersonville a regular stop in the future, which is what the city council wanted before it would approve $40,000 needed to update the dock so it could accommodate a steamboat. Fortunately for any Steamboat Day attendees who want to see paddlewheels in action, Louisville’s concurrent Centennial Festival of Riverboats will feature six steamboats — the Spirit of the Jefferson, the River Queen, the Belle of Cincinnati, the Spirit of Peoria, the America Queen and the Belle of Louisville, which celebrates her 100th birthday Oct. 18. Organizers expect many pedestrians from both sides of the river to utilize the Big Four Bridge, which will seamlessly connect the two festivals. The Louisville festival is expected to ENTERTAINING PROSPECTS MIKE MOORE bring in 300,000 visitors over its fiveA parade is planned. There’s also a solid day run. Southern Indiana officials lineup of music performances, capped off by the hope to capture a minimum of 15 percent of that 23 String Band and Louisville Crashers playing audience. Friday and Saturday night, respectively. More than a dozen food trucks and vendors also are “On a regular Saturday night, there are three to expected, in addition to the restaurants and five thousand people coming across the bridge,” businesses already open in the downtown area. Corbin said. “On a good night, we’re getting five to 10,000. Something of this scale, we’d expect One thing there won’t be is a steamboat, at least a minimum of 20,000, maybe up to 50,000.” not on the Indiana side of the Ohio. While there was talk of The American Queen making an appearance during the festival, those plans fell SEE FESTIVAL, PAGE 9 still be a more relaxed atmosphere than many are used to. Continuing with the art theme, several art demonstrations are planned throughout the long weekend, including a temporary mural on the floodwall, glassblowing and a deluxe blacksmithing team. There will also be a “Writer’s Block” at the festival, where visitors can meet 15 to 20 local authors and explore their literary offerings. Corbin said the goal is to make the festival feel less like a flea market and more like an experience where you can broaden your horizons. Moore agrees, adding, “It’s got a little bit of everything.”

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CROSSING THE RIVER Additionally, dozens of tour buses are scheduled to take visitors from downtown Louisville to the Howard Steamboat Museum in Jeffersonville. Jim Epperson, executive director of the Clark-Floyd Counties Convention-Tourism Bureau, jokes that he doesn’t own a good crystal ball and doesn’t know exactly how many people will come for the weekend, but he is optimistic. “There’s a built-in connection,” he said, referring not just to the physical connection of the bridge but also to the strong ties to the history of steamboats. The tourism bureau will be distributing schedules listing everything going on that weekend in Louisville, Jeffersonville and Clarksville. Clarksville will be hosting a one-day celebration called RiverFest in Ashland Park from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Oct. 18. Visit clarksvilleparks.com/riverfest for more information. “We’ll be pointing people to that bridge,” said Epperson. “What better way to bring us all together.” Steamboat Days will cost approximately $110,000

to put on. Three government organizations — city council, redevelopment commission and the Jeffersonville Urban Enterprise Zone — each gave $20,000. The rest came from private sponsors, most prominently JeffBoat, which donated $20,000. THE ORIGINS The original festival in 1973 was held as a fundraiser for the Howard Steamboat Museum after a devastating fire two years earlier nearly shuttered the place for good. Pat Vangilder was one of the six key people who organized the inaugural Steamboat Days. She recalls donning period costumes for that inaugural event. The women were Southern belles while the men dressed as card players from the 1800s. While no historical costuming has been announced for the revamped festival, Vangilder said she is still excited to see the new iteration. “I think it’s about time,” she said of the decision to bring the festival back. “We had a good time doing it. We were delighted to be doing something good, and we kept it going for a while. … I think a new festival will really be something.”

A model of the City of Jeffersonville steamboat is on display at the Howard Steamboat Museum. The Howard Shipyards operated from 1834-1942 and this side-wheeler was built in 1891 and docked in Jeffersonville.

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Jeffersonville’s boat building legacy continues for 180 years BY ELIZABETH BEILMAN elizabeth.beilman@newsandtribune.com JEFFERSONVILLE — When Leo Lutgring started working at Jeffboat in 1972, his chief engineer was using a slide rule. These days, the manufacturers are using 3-D modeling software to design the various types of barges that the company builds every year. “It’s changed a lot,” said Lutgring, chief estimator at the manufacturing arm of Jeffersonville-based American Commercial Lines Inc. But at its core, Jeffboat has remained just as vital to the local, regional and national economy as it

did when the original shipyard at the same location opened in 1834. “It’s the age-old business that’s never going away,” said Patrick Sutton, vice president of Jeffboat,.

THE HISTORY

Jeffersonville’s river transport history began when a 19-year-old James Howard founded the Howard Shipyards to produce steamboats. “It was the beginning of river traffic,” Lutgring said. SEE JEFFBOAT, PAGE 12

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Welders use a torch to create an access hole in the siding of a 10,000-barrel river barge at STAFF PHOTO BY TYLER STEWART Jeffboat in Jeffersonville.

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TIMELINE • 1834 — James Howard opens the Howard Shipyards when he is 19 years old and builds his first boat, The Hyperion • 1878 — Howard Shipyards’ finest steamboat, The White, is launched and gains an international reputation • 1918 — Shipyard switches from wood to steel as main material for steamboats • 1942 — U.S. Navy buys shipyard to build LSTs for WWII • 1957 — Shipyard becomes known as Jeffboat • 1970s — Production shifts from towboats to barges as primary boat model • 1973 — Jeffboat builds the Mississippi Queen • 1985 — Jeffboat builds the General Jackson • 1986 to 1989 — Jeffboat mostly closes for construction while repair section remains open • 2014 — 180th anniversary of the shipyard

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An LST, or Landing Ship, Tank Vessel, is launched into the Ohio River after the U.S. Army took over the Howard Shipyards after the start of World War II. The Army later sold the shipyards and it became known as Jeffboat in 1957.

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Keith Norrington, director and curator of the Howard Steamboat Museum, said that the shipyard had as many as 400 to 500 workers. “So even way back then, it was quite an employer,” Norrington said. Over the next 107 years, the 52-acre shipyard stayed in the Howard family amid many changes in the steamboat industry — including a shift from wood to steel production in the early 1900s and the abandonment of oxen and horse power to move large parts. Ownership switched hands in 1942 when the U.S. Navy took over the shipyard to build LSTs — or Landing Ship, Tank vessels — for World War II. Employment at the shipyard reached an all-time high with 13,000 to 15,000 people. The manufacturer was owned by the Jeffersonville Boat and Machine Co. after the war ended, officially called Jeffboat in 1957. The company has built famous vessels including the General Jackson, Mississippi Queen and Casino Aztar. In the 1970s — around the time Lutgring SEE JEFFBOAT, PAGE 13

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joined the team — there was a ramp-up in demand for barges that has stuck around since. Today, Jeffboat is the biggest single site inland shipyard in the United States at 68 acres, with employment higher than 1,000 people in the manufacturing division. It’s also the oldest continually operating shipyard in the nation. “So many generations of people from Clark and Floyd counties and elsewhere have worked in the shipyards since it started,” Norrington said. BOAT BUILDING TODAY Lutgring said that he’s seen automated work replace a lot of human work in the 42 years he’s worked at Jeffboat. One of the biggest technological changes he’s seen is in welding. “When I started, what we would have is four men with a flat rod weld the same thing in a day,” Lutgring said. “Well, that machine does it in an hour.” Methods for building boats have evolved, but the boats themselves have been “pretty optimal” for years and years, Sutton said.

“I would say at the end of the day, we really haven’t changed a whole lot because as the technologies have changed on how to produce a barge, barge technology hasn’t changed,” he said. Steel will always be steel — “So everything we need now, we needed 50 years ago.” Kim Durbin, manager of Corporate Communications for ACL, said that the manufacturer is now in the business of barges. Jeffboat has the capability to produce about five hopper, or dry goods, barges a week; one 10,000-barrel tank, or chemical, barge a week; one 30,000-barrel tank every two weeks; and one 50,000-barrel ocean-going tank every three months. “It has a lot to do with the product mix and delivery to meet the customer’s needs,” she said. Demand is fairly high at Jeffboat right now — orders are backlogged for two years. Lutgring said if someone ordered a hopper barge today, they probably wouldn’t get it until 2016. Jeffboat only produces tank barges right now for rivers and oceans. An ocean tank can carry as much as 2.5 million gallons of liquid. SEE JEFFBOAT, PAGE 14

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JEFFBOAT: Many barges carry domestic crude oil One 15-barge tow carries the loads of 216 railcars and 1,050 semi-tractor-trailers — and One of the most frequently carried products the U.S. inland waterways have 60 percent that Jeffboat’s tank barges transport after available capacity for transport, according to they’re launched is domestic crude oil. The ACL. barges carry the oil from the north of the Jeffboat is a big economic player that touches United States to refineries off the southern many other industries in a kind of ripple effect coast. beginning on a local level, Sutton said that Jeffboat has said. The shipyard is one “Jeffersonville is here Sutton seen an increased demand in of the largest employers in Clark tank barges as the United because of the river. County. States turns to domestic “We are supporting the local It’s the heritage of energy, at the same time the community. We are supporting country’s main crude oil the community.” the local government,” Sutton pipeline is not being expanded. — Keith Norrington, director said. “We are a big piece of this and curator of the Howard “I feel like we’re at the heart of community.” Steamboat Museum that issue,” Sutton said. “We One example of how Jeffboat’s are literally building the economic ripple effect works is success of that.” its consumption of steel. Sutton said that the company uses between 80,000 and 150,000 tons of steel a year. That stimulates the steel GREATER IMPACT manufacturing communities. Riverboats are the most environmentally “So your number starts multiplying,” he said. friendly way to transport goods, the cheapest way and can move more tons faster than any other form of transportation. SEE JEFFBOAT, PAGE 19 CONTINUED FROM PAGE 13

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A welder adds combing brackets, used to increase structural strength, to the side box of a river barge at Jeffboat in Jeffersonville. The company has the nation’s largest inland shipyard.

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Then Jeffboat opens up employment opportunities for each barge and each inland port while also stimulating the economies of the products it delivers. “The river is such an integral part of this country, and people don’t realize it,” Sutton said. And it’s been that way for almost 200 years, Norrington said. “It’s still pretty much business as usual in the shipyard,” he said. The 68-acre Jeffboat shipyard has been in operation for 180 years, Beyond the dollars generated and tons of shifting from wood to steel and using heavy machinery to move the products transported over the years, products throughout the shipyard. With the technological advances now Jeffboat and its predecessor have made a in use, Jeffboat is capable of producing up to five barges a week, cultural mark on Southern Indiana. depending on size. “Jeffersonville is here because of the river,” Norrington said. “It’s the heritage of the community.”

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An ocean barge begins to take shape as it nears the end of the production line at the Jeffboat shipyard in Jeffersonville. The company employs more than 1,000 in its manufacturing division. STAFF PHOTOS BY TYLER STEWART

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Get your fill of shipping news A step inside Howard Steamboat Museum reveals shipbuilding history BY APRIL CORBIN newsroom@newsandtribune.com JEFFERSONVILLE — The dramatic red Victorian mansion at 1101 E. Market St. in Jeffersonville is for most people simply the Howard Steamboat Museum, but to Ruth Heffern, it will always feel like home. When she was a child, the building was where her grandparents, Jim and Loretta Howard, lived. It was a place Heffern remembers bounding up and down the stairs of several times a day without fear or fatigue. When she was older, she would get married in the music parlor, the same room her parents had exchanged their vows in 32 years earlier. Heffern remembers slowly walking down the staircase with her father, neither of them using the rails, which were handcrafted to resemble the ones on the luxurious steamboat J.M. White built by her relatives. It was a moment she’d dreamed of since she was that little girl. The Howard Steamboat Museum is as much about the Howard family as it is about Jeffersonville’s role in the era of the steamboat. Visitors to the museum, which offers daily tours Tuesday through Saturday, learn that untangling the two is impossible. As Heffern puts it, “The river is in my blood.”

THE HISTORY

James Howard founded a shipyard in 1834 when he was only 19 years old and quickly built it into a thriving business. Howard Shipyard produced hundreds of vessels — from the early wood-hulled boats requiring logs from several states away to steel-hulled boats and the adoption of welding. Business was lucrative for the family, and in 1890, James’ son Edmonds built the Howard Mansion, a three-floor, 22-room Victorian on a property spanning an entire city block, located directly across from the shipyard. “New Albany has Mansion Row. This is Jeffersonville’s only one,” said Lowell Smith, an 89-year-old retired teacher who now volunteers at the museum. “I think that makes this a unique place that can be pointed out with pride.” Smith, who decades ago spent summers working at the shipyard, says he loves to point out features in the home that were cutting edge for its time, like the dual gas and electric chandelier in the music room. During the day, it was powered by electricity from the

SO YOU KNOW • WHAT: Howard Steamboat Museum • WHERE: 1101 E. Market St., Jeffersonville • HOURS: 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tuesday-Saturday; 1 to 4 p.m. Sunday • ADMISSION: $7 for adults; $6 for seniors, children and military; kids 6 and under get in free • WEBSITE: steamboatmuseum.org

UPCOMING EVENTS AT THE MUSEUM SUNDAY, OCT. 5 • Book signing with Martha Driscoll, author of “Nosey’s Wild Ride on the Belle of Louisville”

Keith Norrington, pictured in the property’s Pilot House, is director and curator of the Howard Steamboat Museum. Norrington began volunteering at the property in 1968 at age 14 and has a love of steamboats.

OCT. 18 • River Ramblings with Capt. Clarke Hawley, 3 p.m.

shipyard. When the generator was shut off at the end of the final shift of the evening, the family used gas for lighting. Another one of Smith’s favorite things to point out, especially to younger visitors, is the icebox. “You’d be surprised at what people don’t know,” he says of the precursor to refrigerators and freezers.

OCT. 19 “Paddlin’ into the Past,” a two-hour sight/sound program on the history of the Belle of Louisville; presented by steamboat historians David and Jonathan Tschiggfrie, 3 p.m.

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THE TOUR

Tours at the museum aren’t scripted, which means volunteers like Smith, as well as the director and curator Keith Norrington, cater their information to the interests of the visitors. Some are interested in the home’s unique features, many of which can be tied back to the Chicago World’s Fair. Others are strictly interested in steamboats. The collection features at least a dozen rare miniature replicas of steamboats built at the shipyard.

Meanwhile, dozens of unique artifacts illustrate the physicality and atmosphere of the industry and time period. Items include steamboat whistles and equipment used by deckhands. The former are said to be so unique that a discerning ear could identify a steamboat simply off its sound. It’s an impressive collection, even more so because it all easily could have been destroyed. In 1971, a furnace located in the basement underneath the stairwell overheated and started a fire that could have shuttered the museum for good. “We’re still recovering from that, honestly,” said Norrington. The museum reopened a year later and restored or replaced what it could. One big boost to the rebuilding period was fundraising by the community, including the inaugural Steamboat Days festival in 1973. SEE MUSEUM, PAGE 21

OCT. 23 • Octoberfest, a wine tasting event at the American Commercial Lines building, 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. DEC. 14 • Christmas Open House, 1 to 4 p.m.

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Norrington first experienced the museum in 1963, when he first toured the mansion as a third-grader. He started volunteering at the mansion in 1968, at age 14. That first tour he took when he was 9 was given by Loretta Howard. He said it was her storytelling that first drew him into the steamboat era and steamboats. He said he remembered one story Loretta told about jumping on a steamboat and working as the cook because they needed one. All on a whim. She was just that kind of person. “She could do anything,” Norrington said. After that tour, he says he was “hooked on steamboats.” As for why Norrington felt so attached to steamboats, he couldn’t describe it. “I don’t know exactly. There’s just something about them.” TODAY These days, the Howard Steamboat Museum relies exclusively on special events, donations and memberships to raise funds for daily operations. Each spring,

the property hosts an arts and antiques event. Jeffersonville-based American Commercial Lines Inc., which owns Jeffboat, holds a gold scramble during the summer to raise money. Then, in the fall, the museum hosts a wine-tasting and silent auction. Even with these reoccurring annual events and other special programming, Norrington said too high a percentage of the museum’s 5,000 to 6,000 annual visitors are tourists rather than locals. He suspects it’s the museum’s lack of funds for marketing and advertising. The fact that the home is on the south end of the floodwall doesn’t help keep the property in people’s minds either. “A lot of residents don’t realize we’re here,” he says. Norrington and Heffern both hope that might change with the revamped Steamboat Days and the concurrent Centennial Festival of Riverboats in Louisville. They know dozens of buses will be stopping by with tourists, but hope locals will also feel inspired to learn more about their city’s ties to the steamboat industry. “There’s so much history there,” says Heffern. “I hope people get that history, the wonderful world of steamboats and the part they played in culture. And, of course, I hope they hear about my grandmother and grandfather.”

The parlor of the Howard Steamboat Museum in Jeffersonville is pictured. The Howard Mansion was finished in 1890 and built by employees of the adjacent Howard Shipyards. Some of the furnishings were purchased at the World’s Fair in Chicago.

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SKIPPING FISH BOAT SCHOOL Skipping Fish Boat School will be near RiverStage all three days of the festival. They will be giving kayakbuilding demonstrations and more. In 2007, Kimberley Hillerich and Dennis Pidgeon decided to combine their artistic energy and practical talent to create an innovative business that connects people to Kentucky’s waterways and reunites them with the natural world. “When someone builds a boat, it’s an assertion that they still believe in the extraordinary potential of the present,” said Kimberley and Dennis. Skipping Fish Boat School is taking the kayaking experience to the next level. In fact, the name of their business was inspired by a kayak trip on the Ohio River. Kimberley and her friend were on a sunrise paddle and noticed there were little silver fish jumping and swimming all around them. There were so many of them that morning that the water appeared to be alive. Kimberley and her fellow paddler playfully named them “silver skipping fish.” Kimberley later found out they weren’t too far off the mark — their dancing, silver friends were the Ohio River’s Skipjack fish.

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Skipping Fish Boat School has an appealing range of programs for adults and youths ages 13-18 years old. Adult classes are offered throughout the year and a variety of summer camps are offered to youths. Founders and owners Dennis and Kimberly are outdoor enthusiasts who are experiencing a kayak view of Louisville’s rivers and streams and beyond. Dennis’ love of flyfishing and the pursuit of newer and more remote places to fish prompted him to build his first kayak. He has been building boats for 20 years now. He has paddled extensively on both the Atlantic and the Pacific coasts, the Great Lakes, throughout the Pacific Northwest and the Northwest Territories. He is a historian and he has an extensive knowledge of Ohio River history. Kimberley is the granddaughter of Jane Elizabeth Hudson of the Allegheny River Hudsons, who owned and operated the packet boats of the Allegheny River. She graduated from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and has worked as a professional sculptor, working in stone and bronze. Kimberley was first introduced to paddling by a friend who took her out paddling on the Ohio River in 2004. In one powerful instant she knew that she needed to get her own kayak. For more information, visit skippingfishboatschool.org/about

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DEMONSTRATING ARTIST PROFILES STONE CARVER LARRY BEISLER Stone carver Larry Beisler will have a booth at Steamboat Days, working on a sculpture of a steamboat. The public will be able to participate in the sculpture formation by chiseling away stone. Public participation for this activity is available from 4 to 7 p.m. Oct. 17 and noon to 4 p.m. Oct. 19. The sculpture will not be available for public participation Oct. 18. Beisler was born in Louisville and has apprenticed for various artists in his home city, where he learned stone carving and bronze casting. He is experienced in the creation of scenery and props, doing work for the Louisville Ballet, Stage One and Kentucky Opera. He does commissions for private individuals, as well as public sculpture. A large bas relief sculpture, created as part of the Millennium Project, and located on the town square in Corydon, is his largest public work. Beisler lives and creates near Elizabeth. He has shown in many galleries in the area, and has won recognition in many art competitions. Inspiration for his abstract forms comes mostly from nature. Carving is his greatest love. He has no preconceived idea as to what he is going to create, but lets the stone tell him what it has to reveal, he said.

Glass-blowing demonstrations will be Oct. 17-18 at Steamboat Days. Hand sculpt your own pumpkin for $30 on Oct. 18. The lead artist is Lisa F. Pelo, Clayton, owner of Hot Blown Glass Studio and Gallery — hotblownglass.com. Pelo specializes in blown and solid sculpture glass, cast glass, slumped and fused glass, metal sculpture, cold forming and fabricating.

YOGA CLINIC Inner Spring Yoga will be offering a free yoga clinic from 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. Oct. 18 at Preservation Station. It’s open to the public.

TIME CAPSULE For more than 20 years, this husband and wife team of Al and Penny Nelson, pictured at left, has worked hands-on with children and adults. They’ve developed a unique stonecarving program that allows participants to work together to successfully create their own limestone artwork. Al Nelson took up sculpture as a past time after serving in the Navy during the Vietnam era. Thirty years and hundreds of creations later, he is among the top artists in the area. Some of the major sculptures to his credit are “Let’s Play Ball,” a 15-ton fielder’s mitt at the Louisville Slugger Museum; the 10-foot-tall

family group, “Hearts In Harmony,” located outside the downtown YMCA in Louisville; and “Chris,” the seven-foot dragon boat at Cherokee Park’s historic Christensen Fountain. Penny Nelson has a public relations degree from Lear Siegler Institute in Maryland and has a wide background in event planning and promotion. She owned her own interior design and fabrication business, Material Images, and has worked extensively in the field of youth ministry and child development. They have combined their talents and honed their skills to adapt their workshop for both the physically and emotionally challenged as well as the mainstream students.

PUBLIC CAN HELP OUT WITH TIME CAPSULE The public is invited to help out Al and Penny Nelson with their Steamboat Days time capsule creation. The public will be able to participate by chiseling the designs out from 4 to 6 p.m. Oct. 17; 3 to 6 p.m. Oct. 18; and noon to 3 p.m. Oct. 19 at Preservation Station.

HIGH FLAUTIN’ COMMUNITY JAM SESSION The High Falutin’ Community Jam Session will take place Oct. 17-19 near the corner of Chestnut and Spring Streets. This special JAM session invites the public to help decorate mock steamboat smokestacks. The Jeffersonville Arts Alliance (JAA) is group of local artists, fine arts educators and art supporters that have a vested interest in sharing their enthusiasm for the arts. Their Mission is to promote, encourage and instill appreciation, creation and collaboration of the arts in the city of Jeffersonville, and to have fun doing it. Steamboats originally had boilers fired by wood. Along with the smoke, there would often be flaming embers coming up from the furnace and out the top of the smokestack. Those embers could and did start fires when they landed on the top deck or cargo. Tall stacks gave the embers a better chance to burn out before reaching the deck. In addition, the top of the stacks were “fluted.” Fluting consisted of wire or steel mesh and acted like a small fence that would break the embers into small pieces. Smaller embers were more likely to burn out faster than larger pieces. As fancier boats were built, the fluting became very ornamental and eventually came to be considered and essential decorative element of the smokestack. Vessels with fancy smokestacks and decorative flutes became known as high-falutin’ boats.

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LOUISVILLE — Jeffersonville won’t be the only city celebrating the area’s rich history of steamboats in mid-October. Louisville Waterfront Park will be home to Centennial Festival of Riverboats, scheduled for Oct. 14-19. The big event is Oct. 18, when festival organizers and visitors will celebrate the 100th birthday of the Belle of Louisville. Festivities kick off at 1:30 that day with a riverboat parade down the Ohio River featuring all six boats appearing at the festival.

SCHEDULE AND EVENTS Opening ceremonies for the festival will start at 5:30 p.m. Oct. 14 and the festival runs until 9 p.m. that night. The rest of the event, the festival opens at 11 a.m. It closes at 9 p.m. Oct. 15-16; 10 p.m. Oct. 1718; and 7:30 p.m. Oct. 19. The heart of the festival will be Waterfront Park, where there will be historical displays and presentations, live music, calliope contests, the Old Forester Bourbon Landing and an artisan showcase and food and beverage area featuring local vendors.

ABOUT THE BELLE OF LOUISVILLE • The Belle of Louisville is the oldest operating Mississippi River-style steamboat in the world. Though she’s known today as the Belle of Louisville, she was originally named the Idlewild when she was built in 1914 at Pittsburgh. She was launched Oct. 18 of that year. She was designed to be a ferry and day packet vessel, for freight work, and was also outfitted for her later career as an excursion boat. Completely paddlewheel-driven with a steel hull that draws only 5 feet of water, she was able to travel on virtually every navigable inland waterway, earning her the distinction of being the most widely traveled river steamboat in the nation. She was renamed Avalon in 1948 and the Belle of Louisville in 1962. The Belle was named a National Historic Landmark on June 30, 1989. — festivalofriverboats.com and belleoflouisville.org

ON THE WEB • Centennial Festival of Riverboats: festivalofriverboats.com Special events include a balloon glow scheduled for 7:30 to 9 p.m. Oct. 17, which is weather dependent, and the Adventures in Water Education Festival, running from Oct. 15-17.

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Adventures in Water is an education festival along the shores of the Ohio River. This real-world extension of classroom learning utilizes a multicontent approach as students rotate through several fun and educational stations. Community partners also help students learn about all the amazing ways we use water and connect to the river. Times vary, and details are available at the festival’s website. THE BOATS Along with the featured attraction, the Belle, the boats coming to the festival are: • The Sprit of Jefferson, Louisville — Built in 1963, The Spirit of Jefferson is a charming mix of historic river travel and modern conveniences. With two enclosed decks and outside seating, she is a boat for all seasons and all types of groups. • The Belle of Cincinnati — Lavish Victorian decor sets the atmosphere for an elegant ride on the Belle of Cincinnati. Each deck includes a full bar, dance floor and elevator for fun on every level. • The Spirit of Peoria, Illinois — The Spirit of Peoria is one of the last true paddlewheelers. The boat is powered by two Caterpillar 3412 diesel engine generator sets. First and second decks are enclosed and equipped with bars, dance floors, microphones and restrooms.

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• The River Queen, Newport, Ky. — Tastefully decorated and impeccably preserved, the River Queen exudes romantic riverboat-era charm. Both climate-controlled decks include a spacious seating arrangement, buffet service and full bar. • American Queen, Memphis, Tenn. — The largest steamboat ever built, the grand American Queen is a gracious and elegant triumph of American ingenuity.

CRUISES

Several different types of cruises will be offered on every boat listed, except the America Queen. These include cruises for dining, history and sightseeing and a Taste of Kentucky Cruise. Visit the festival’s website for more information.

RACES

There will be several riverboat races during the festival. Here is the schedule: • Oct. 15, 4:30 p.m. — Spirit of Jefferson vs. Spirit of Peoria • Oct. 16, 8 p.m. — Spirit of Peoria vs. Belle of Louisville • Oct. 17, 1:30 p.m. — Spirit of Peoria vs. River Queen • Oct. 19, 3 p.m. — Belle of Louisville vs. Belle of Cincinnati vs. American Queen

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LIVE MUSIC AT RIVERSTAGE RIVERSTAGE SCHEDULE OCT. 17 • Juggernaut Jug Band — 6 to 7 p.m. • Appalatin — 7:30 to 8:30 p.m. • 23 String Band — 9 to 10:30 OCT. 18 • Fiddle Fest — 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. • The Hart Strings — 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. • Caribou — 6 to 7 p.m.

ABOUT THE BANDS 23 STRING BAND The Louisville-based bluegrass band describes itself as “a new kind of oldtime.” Known for its high-energy and fast-paced tunes, five-member 23 String Band puts a new twist on vintage Americana music. The band is made of guitarist Chris Shouse of Eastern Kentucky, banjo player Curtis Wilson from the Cumberland Valley region, mandolin player Dave Howard from Owensboro, Ky., and fiddle player Scott Moore and bassist T. Martin Stam from Chapel Hill, N.C. The 23 String Band has popular songs including “Long Hot Summer Days,” “Cripple Creek” and “Catch 23,” and has

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• Juice Box Heroes — 7:30 to 8:30 p.m. • The Louisville Crashers — 9 to 10:30 p.m. OCT. 19 • noon to 2 p.m. — Dance-A-Thon featuring DanceNation, Simmonds Performing Arts, SIGS, RDA and Kids ROCK the Boat • No True Lies — 2 to 2:45 p.m. • Black Friday — 3:05 to 3:50 p.m. • Forever Fades Away — 4:10 to 5 p.m.

been known to play the occasional cover. Notable performances include the Kentucky Bluegrass Music Festival in 2011 and 2012, the 2012 IBMA World of Bluegrass Conference, 2013 Forecastle Festival and most recently, Louisville’s WFPK Waterfront Wednesday in September this year.

LOUISVILLE CRASHERS Some say the Crashers are one of the best party bands around. The band is known for its wide variety of cover songs from the 1950s to today. The Recording Industry Association of America and the Canadian Recording Industry Association have certified some of the six members as gold and platinum selling artists, who have also made appearances on the “Late Show with David Letterman,” “The Tonight Show with Jay Leno” and other

live television performances.

THE HART STRINGS Hailing from Georgetown, The Hart Strings are a folk/rock band with all three members contributing vocals in addition to their string and percussion instruments. The Hart Strings name the Avett Brothers, Mumford and Songs and Old Crow Medicine Show as influences.

APPALATIN Appalatin is a fusion of Latin and Appalachian folk music, with some members native to Louisville and others immigrants from Ecuador, Nicaragua and Guatemala. The band, describes its music as “foot-stomping, hip-swinging” and incorporates guitar and mandolin with Andean flute and harmonica, among other sounds.

region. They list their influences as numerous.

NO TRUE LIES No True Lies is a group of four high schoolers from Floyds Knobs playing alternative rock. Live performances have a setlist with mostly popular cover songs sprinkled in with a few originals.

JUGGERNAUT JUG BAND

BLACK FRIDAY

This blues ragtime/jazz/swing band jams on a variety of “hardware” including washboards, washtubs, kazoos and jugs as well as more traditional instruments. The Juggernaut Jug Band has been around for more than a decade with seven CDs.

Members of Black Friday list The Louisville Crashers among their biggest musical influences, and that’s probably because this band is the younger version. Black Friday is a Southern Indiana cover band with favorites such as “Life is a Highway” by Rascal Flatts and “Crazy Train” by Ozzy Osbourne.

CARIBOU Caribou calls itself “Louisville’s premier rock ‘n’ roll dance band” and has been jamming since the 1970s. The band has a full seven-piece horn section with trumpet, trombone and saxophone, evolving over the years from a rock ‘n’ roll only group into the dance band it is today.

THE JUICE BOX HEROES The Juice Box Heroes, a five-piece cover band based in Jeffersonville, is a regular on RiverStage and elsewhere around the

FOREVER FADES AWAY A self-proclaimed “youth band,” Forever Fades Away has been playing music for more than a year after forming at Mom’s Music. The members whose ages range from 15 to 19 play all classic rock and modern pop covers.

— Compiled by Staff Writer Elizabeth Beilman

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FIDDLE FEST

ARTS COUNCIL HOSTING FIDDLE FEST CONTEST The Arts Council of Southern Indiana will be hosting its third-annual Fiddle Fest Contest on Oct. 18 during Jeffersonville Steamboat Days at RiverStage. The contest, which runs from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., not only serves as entertainment, but also as a means to preserve an art form that has such strong roots in the region, while also creating an educational experience for youth and adult music students. There will be an all-star judges panel, including Daniel and Amy Carwile and Robin Thixton, vice-president of the Louisville Bluegrass Music Association, Bluegrass Anonymous. More than $2,000 in prize money will be given away. To apply, visit artscouncilsi.org/fiddle-fest-2014 or call 812949-4238.

AMY CARWILE Playing the fiddle since age 8, Amy’s championships include Northwest Regional, Washington State, Colorado Open, Pend O’Reille International and Rocky Mountain Young Adult Championships. She has served as a judge at the Alabama, Kentucky, Oregon, Indiana, Tennessee, and

Wyoming State Contests, Colorado and Idaho Open, Northwest Regional and the National Old-Time Fiddler’s Contest. In tandem with her private music instruction, she travels the U.S. and internationally conducting fiddle workshops and master classes as well as teaching at summer music camps including the International Fiddle School at Vanderbilt University and the Mark O’Connor Berklee College of Music Summer String Program. She performs as a duo with her husband Daniel adding fiddle, piano, and vocals to their fusion of musical styles. Together, they own and operate Carwile String Studio in Lexington, Ky.

DANIEL CARWILE U.S. Grand Master Fiddle Champion, Daniel has competed in virtually every major fiddle competition in the United States. He has been crowned the Tennessee Valley Old-Time Fiddlers Convention “Fiddle King” an amazing seven times. Other conquests include Alabama, Kentucky, and Tennessee State Championships as well as Lake Superior, North Cascades, Colorado Open, Grand Lake National and The World Series of Fiddling Championships.

When not competing, Daniel can often be found in the judge’s seat, most recently judging Northwest Regional, Wyoming State, Oregon State, Indiana State, Colorado Rocky Mountain Fiddle Championship and the National Old-Time Fiddler’s Contest in Weiser, Idaho. He maintains a busy schedule teaching privately and at various camps and workshops. He has instructed at Mark O’Connor’s Fiddle Camps and String Conferences the past 14 years and taught at Vanderbilt University’s International Fiddle School and The Swannanoa Gathering in Asheville, N.C.

ROBIN THIXTON Originally from Chetwynd, British Columbia in Canada, Robin Thixton began playing the banjo at age 14, where she performed for several years on the west coast of Canada and the U.S. with the bluegrass band, Just for Fun. She also is an Alumni of South Plains Jr.

College in Levelland, Texas, famed for its bluegrass and country music program. While there, she was under the tutelage of famed banjoist, Alan Munde. After leaving college, Robin found herself in Nashville, Tenn., performing for over a decade with the all-female bluegrass group, Petticoat Junction, who were one of the earliest artists on the bluegrass record label, Pinecastle Records. After performing with Petticoat Junction, Robin went on to pick with bands such as Blue and Lonesome, Bull Harman and Bull’s Eye, the Kati Penn Band and Valerie Smith and Liberty Pike. After meeting her husband, Louisville native and fellow banjo picker, Murrell Thixton in 2009, Robin moved to Louisville and has since become involved with the Louisville Bluegrass Music Association, Bluegrass Anonymous. While she’s not out on the road touring full time, Robin still performs on banjo or bass in the Louisville area. — News and Tribune

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