The river made this city.
Now that our railroad and trucking industries have largely forgotten us and moved pretty much anything they can away, we sometimes forget that the river [or more accurately the boats that moved upon it] made our city and helped establish the city as a major transportation hub.
Most years this gets little notice, but the first towboat with barges is expected today and we need every sign of spring we can get this year. Thanks to global warming or something this year’s date will be a record late date, breaking the previous record by four days and the average by almost three weeks.
And we need all the vernal thoughts we can get right now.
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