New Orleans' own Steamboat Natchez is in Cincinnati for America's River Roots Festival. The iconic vessel may cruise the Mississippi, but one of its most prominent features hails from the Queen City.

Martha Gibbs plays the Belle of Louisville's calliope during the six-month cruising season. The instrument is a classic ...

America’s River Roots celebrates Cincinnati’s steamboat era, which helped build up the Queen City. Take a look back in ...

Roy Acuff, vocals ; with Red Jones, vocals (1st-2nd, 11th works) and Dynamite Hatcher, vocals (3rd work) ; with band. Production notes: Recorded Oct. 1936 in Chicago ...

The intricately detailed model of an Upper Mississippi River stern-wheeler steamboat in the Grand Excursion Garden at Symphony in Bloom kept Roald Tweet fully occupied through January and February, ...

Long gone are the old days of paddlewheels on big riverboats, but the whistles still hoot like sentinel banshees up and down our river. Whistles on diesel tows are not like the steam whistles of the ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. The blues became a prominent American musical form at the turn of the 20th century. The style originated in communities of former African slaves, ...