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"From 1936, when I was hired right out of high school as a deckhand on the towboat Robert R, until I retired in 1996, I traveled the waters of the entire Misssissippi River, the beautiful Ohio, the Cumberland, Tennessee, Illinois, Illinois Waterway and the now-abandoned Hennepin Canal. The first boats were steam-driven and coal-fired; later vessels were diesel-powered. Much of my career was spent on towboats, but before I retired I was fortunate enough to work on the American Queen and other big excursion boats." ~ Captain Norman Hillman
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"On the Upper Mississippi River at certain times of the year we have a hatch of mayflies. They hatch by the millions, don't eat anything, just mate and die. They are foul-smelling and make a mess on the boats and around streetlights in the towns. I saw the city crew at Clarksville, Missouri, dump truckloads of them into the river. Twice I've seen highway crews at La Crosse, Wisconsin, plowing mayflies off the highway bridge with snowplows. In 1949 a semi-truck jackknifed in the slippery mess, while a passenger on the Delta Queen steamboat complained loudly about 'any company which would schedule a cruise when there was going to be a hatch of these bugs...' "
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