When steamboats ruled the Hudson: 'The Boats of Summer' was Demarest man's passion project
Once, the Hudson River was crammed with pleasure boats, taking city folks to picnics and parks all summer long.
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An Oregon Family Vanished in 1958. Their Car May Have Been Found in a River.
on the banks of the Columbia River ... which had once allowed steamboats to pass through the river about 40 miles east of Portland. After constructing a diorama of the locks and modeling water ...