LONG LIVE THE QUEEN

By Harry Shaw
Published on March 1, 1968
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This one photograph I shot during the filming of ''The Kentuckian starring Burt Lancaster at Owensboro, Kentucky.
This one photograph I shot during the filming of ''The Kentuckian starring Burt Lancaster at Owensboro, Kentucky.
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At Bradenton, Fla., the old Gordon C. Greenenow the River Queen last of the river packets, has found a home as a combination restaurant and museum.
At Bradenton, Fla., the old Gordon C. Greenenow the River Queen last of the river packets, has found a home as a combination restaurant and museum.

Courier-Journal Staff Writer

Down in the quiet backwaters of the Manatee River at Bradenton,
Fla., peace at last has come to the restless life of the last of
the packet boats to churn the rivers of America.

There, in her own specially built basin, is moored the
sternwheeler which once plied the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers as

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