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Towboat stories, photos have riverman longing for job on tow

Author of popular river book has urge to live on a commercial craft. Click on headline for access to full story with links to book chapters, available e-reader copies and softcover copies of his book, "Rivermen of the Cumberland" and latest photo.

Chris Bennett, author of "Rivermen of the Cumberland," sent a photo, posted today, of a towboat locking through at Kentucky Dam, located on the line between Livingston and Marshall Counties of Kentucky. The photo submission was prompted by a photo by Shamarie Claiborne of a towboat on the Ohio at Henderson, KY and an article by Jeff Johnson, linked to that photo, about his father's life as an engineer on a tow.

He writes with the accompanying photo, "I would love to work on one of these boats," adding, "I wonder if they are hiring?"



Chris Bennett's epic river adventure, "Rivermen of the Cumberland," was one of, if not the, most popular serials ever posted on ColumbiaMagazine.com. It was later published in softcover.

Rivermen of the Cumberland can be purchased from Amazon.com or ordered through your local bookseller with ISBN 978-0-557-05263-9.

For fastest home delivery, order online today at columbiamagazine.com/books, where it is available both in softcover book form or formatted as a PDF for instant downloading to your computer or portable book reader.

It can still be read online at ColumbiaMagazine.com. The links to the nine individual chapters are below and each chapter carries links to the other chapters:


INDEX to Rivermen of the Cumberland By Chris Bennett
The story is being carried in 9 mini-chapters. They will go online as they are written. Just click on each chapter title, underlined and linked, as it is posted, to read it.
Chapter I. "Why would any one take a river trip" tells my history on the river, and what inspired me to go on my trip.
Chapter II. "Planning" Planning the trip, and finding some one that would go with me.
Chapter III. "Day one" Creelsboro to Burkesville, 25 miles traveled in 5 hours
ChapterIV. "Day Two" Burkesville to Cordell Hull 89 miles traveled in 11 hours
Chapter V."Daythree, Cordell Hull to Old Hickory Dam
Chapter VI. "Day three, Old Hickory Dam to Nashville"
Chapter VII. "Day Four "Nashville to Lake Barkley"
Chapter VIII. "Day Five, Mississippi here we come"

Chapter IX. "Old Tennessee River, take us to Pattis 1880's settlement"/b>
If anyone knows of the availability of careers on the river, we'd love to hear from you at Contact/Submit or, better yet, use the Contact Form with this article. Or, pass the information along to Chris Bennett.


This story was posted on 2011-03-30 06:21:27
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Towboat locking through Kentucky Dam on Tennessee River



2011-03-30 - Kentucky Lake Dam - Photo by Chris Bennett.
The river is calling Chris Bennett: He writes, "This Tow boat is getting ready to "Lock Through," Kentucky Dam, on the Livingston/Marshall Co. KY line on the Tennessee River. I would love to work on one of these boats," he writes, adding, "I wonder if they are hiring?"

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