Dave's River Room, page 2 Attached photos of a quilt I commissioned seamstress Joyce Riggs of Quincy, Illinois to make for me about 10 years ago. The Tom Sawyer/Huck Finn and steamboat fabrics I bought over a span of years on eBay then bought additional blue and gold fabrics in Quincy which designed to appear to be water-stained. The detail of the steamboat in a sepia pen and ink drawing over beige was a nice graphic. An accent fabric was printed with sentences from the text of Tom Sawyer which included words like rafts, whitewash, treasures and the Mississippi. The quilt measures 50 x 60 1/2 inches. Displayed over sleigh bed with Duvet cover and Goldie cat. Photo of the mantle downstairs here at home years ago when Tommy Thompson's original framed and matted watercolor of the VIRGINIA called "Majestic Passage" was at center with two early 1900 vintage banjoes were displayed on either side. The silhouetted bust on the left is of Mark Twain. It's so dark that his features were not recognizable although the camera's flash illuminated everything else pretty well. Still have the banjoes but haven't had them on display in a long time. This is Michael Blaser's UNDER THE BRIDGE painting which I received from Iowa today and put it back in the frame that was made for it. Michael adjusted the hog chain posts on the Queen City and Tacoma to correspond with a reference model that Fryant built of the QC and photos of the Tacoma. This is above the hearth of my fireplace with ship's clock and some old wood type spelling STEAMBOAT and TOM SAWYER. Little like vintage bronze sculpture bronze on the right is the spitting image of Tom Sawyer. Here is a framed original silk screen of a Robert Addison seragraph (1924-1988) of a haunted derelict steamboat he named the WESTERN WORLD. Photo taken downstairs in the "River Room" with the WESTERN WORLD leaning up against the display case that holds Jim Hale's model of the cotton packet CITY OF MONROE and behind that on the wall is the 5 foot pilot wheel from the towboat BLUE WING that was built at Keokuk, Iowa in 1929. From auction description: "1973 seragraph print, by illustrator and painter ROBERT ADDISON, from Merrill Chase Galleries, with all accompanying paperwork. A signed, unnumbered trial proof, from the artists' collection, with image area of 20 x 26" in a custom frame measuring 29 1/2 x 35 inches." Framed giclée on canvas of the painting NOCTURNE by Michael Blaser michaelblaser.com Framed giclée on canvas of the painting NOCTURNE by Michael Blaser On the Left: The old cotton packet KATE ADAMS Adams of Memphis was brought to the Upper Ohio in 1926 for the packet business that was running between Pittsburgh and Cincinnati. At Center: The sternwheel towboat J. T. HATFIELD ran coal from Charleston, West Virginia to Cincinnati for over 30 years. Tommy Thompson's painting "MAJESTIC PASSAGE" of the steamboat VIRGINIA The Sam Clemens PILOT's CERTIFICATE is a print of the original from the Mariner's Museum framed with vintage gold leaf molding. Cornwell's BETSY ANN fit nicely in a beautiful frame I found in an antique store. TCHEFUNCTA QUEEN Bayou Steamer by Richard Christopher Davis framed nicely. Here are the two big framed posters 1935 STEAMBOAT ROUND THE BEND and the 1895 CINCINNATI color lithograph. They're in the corner on the stair landing between the first and second floors where I can enjoy them during each hike up and down the stairs. The way they're situated together reminds me of the memorable hymn BRIGHTEN THE CORNER WHERE YOU ARE. "Someone far from harbor you may guide across the bar" has a nautical connotation and "Here for all your talent you may surely find a need" is appropriate to the life and career of Will Rogers. Cap'n Capitol Tower Ira D. Ogdon (1872-1964) was a public school teacher who had plans for an evangelistic career. She abandoned that dream to care for her ailing father. Ogdon wrote "Brighten the Corner Where You Are" in 1912 and it was published in 1913 with music by Charles H. Gabriel. First heard in motion pictures played by a Salvation Army Band in Jimmy Cagney's 1931 classic Warner Bros. gangster film PUBLIC ENEMY. Lyrics: Do not wait until some deed of greatness you may do, Do not wait to shed your light afar; To the many duties ever near you now be true, Brighten the corner where you are. Brighten the corner where you are! Brighten the corner where you are! Someone far from harbor you may guide across the bar; Brighten the corner where you are! Just above are clouded skies that you may help to clear, Don't let selfishness your way debar; Though into one heart alone may fall your song of cheer, Brighten the corner where you are. Brighten the corner where you are! Brighten the corner where you are! Someone far from harbor you may guide across the bar; Brighten the corner where you are! Here for all your talent you may surely find a need, Here reflect the bright and Morning Star; Even from your humble hand the Bread of Life may feed, Brighten the corner where you are. Brighten the corner where you are! Brighten the corner where you are! Someone far from harbor you may guide across the bar; Brighten the corner where you are! Brighten the Corner Where You Are with lyrics and also the flip side "depraved indifference" "JSO Lambert" features Ella Fitzgerald's vocal but doesn't give her credit which is reprehensible but at least the lyrics are displayed for the hard of hearing. Have a feeling Lambert may have some message that he is proselytizing possibly like another solo evangelist seeking followers to subsidize him, who knows? That's what The Donald has been doing forever and a day, thus Trump University and now the school of being "dis-compassionate" and turning away from those truly in need in order to prioritize selfish appetites. The faces of politicos sitting in Congress with blank, apathetic faces are chilling, they're the sorts of expressions worn by Germans while watching their Jewish neighbors being rounded up and sent to death camps. I don't get it, it just "doesn't compute," but folks have turned out to be even worse than we previously believed. I'm having a hard time believing that I will ever see then termination of Trump and his company of weasels. Reminded me again of the frequently employed Law and Order: Criminal Intent indictment "depraved indifference" for which there is a legal precedent: To constitute depraved indifference, the defendant's conduct must be so wanton, so deficient in a moral sense of concern, so lacking in regard for the life or lives of others, and so blameworthy as to warrant the same criminal liability as that which the law imposes upon a person who intentionally causes a crime. Depraved indifference focuses on the risk created by the defendant's conduct, not the injuries actually resulting. Brighten the Corner Where You Are Youtube JSO Lambert Published on Jul 27, 2018 Ella Fitzgerald improved the 10th line of the lyrics (which I have also changed, it's underlined it below) please change that line as I have done in our transcript to correspond with hers. Just above are clouded skies that you may help to clear, Don't let selfishness your way debar; Dave Brighten The Corner Where You Are Ella Fitzgerald Youtube Published on Apr 20, 2017 Provided to YouTube by Universal Music Group With the exception of images credited to public institutions, everything on this page is from a private collection. Please contact Steamboats.com for permission for commercial use.* All captions provided by Dave Thomson, Steamboats.com primary contributor and historian.