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This series, Steamboat Wharf Stories, provides the viewer with first- and second-person accounts of events that occurred during the latter part of the Steamboat Era (1900 – 1950s). These stories – some amusing, some serious – provide a better understanding of tidewater lifestyles and offer hints of what it was like to live during those steamboat days.

This week’s Steamboat Wharf Story, entitled Accidents and Mishaps features stories told by Latane Trice of Walkerton, Leonard Carlton of Irvington and Elsie and William Mattingly of Ditchley.

We hope you enjoy the series.

For more stories and information concerning the Steamboat Era on the Chesapeake Bay visit the HYPERLINK "http://www.steamboatexplorer.org" www.steamboatexplorer.org website or the Steamboat Era Museum in Irvington

This series was produced by Mattingly Productions and made possible by grants from the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities, The Verizon Foundation, and the Scott Opler Foundation.