Mississippi River Banks in Natchez, Mississippi | September 1974 & April 2014
Excerpt from my grandmother’s travel journal on September 27th, 1974: "Delta Queen was on the river and supposed to leave at noon — we were just lucky to be there at the right time. She took the last passengers aboard, took her lines in, the gangplank, played the steaming calleiope, whirled her back wheel — and was thoroughly stuck in the sandbank! It took her a half hour before she had swayed herself a flatter bed and was able to pull back and then into the middle of the river."
A lot has changed along the Mississippi banks since 1974. While steamboats still dock in Natchez, the spot where the Delta Queen came to rest is now permanently occupied by the Isle of Capri Casino Boat.
