The Alexander Norris

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Date Posted：02/18/2009 2:58 AMCopy HTML

   Captain Béla K. Berty
P. O. Box 62156
Cincinnati, OH 45262-0156
Telephone:   (513) 608–5224

Email: [email protected]

The major purpose of the flatboat ALEXANDER NORRIS is to re-enact a voyage down the Ohio River in 2003. The crew of the flatboat will be dressed in pioneer clothing and sleep aboard in close quarters just as in the old days. We will cook aboard with what was available in 1803. On the port visits on that voyage, visitors on board will have the opportunity to tour the boat to see how much more difficult life was 200 years ago. I expect that both the crews and the visitors will be very thankful to get back home to enjoy the luxuries of modern life.

Not all aboard is to be primitive. My plan is to have the officer on duty send daily progress reports with digital photos by Email via a cell phone connected to a laptop computer with a special modem. These reports will be sent to a network of newspapers in Ohio and other media and schools that request the reports.

An integral part of the next voyage is the orchestrated school field trips to visit the flatboat when near their school in the Fall and in the Spring. During the Winters, I like to visit schools with a program titled “American Pioneers Afloat”. Usually, only the Fourth Grade teachers invite me. I go in the classrooms dressed in pioneer garb and take with me a large model of a flatboat and river maps and a short videotape to tell the story of the first form of mass transport in America.

The flatboat ALEXANDER NORRIS will have the capacity to house 26 crew at a time. Two of these will be professionally-licensed riverboat captains to ensure the safety of all. The other 24 would be average families on holiday for a week or two. These latter would have the best vacation of their lives, enjoying a leg of the trip in pioneer garb on a historical flatboat and guiding visitors through the boat and perhaps demonstrating a particular pioneer skill (candle-dipping, soap making, blacksmithing, hand-sewing, cooking over a fire on board, feeding the pigs and chickens, etc.).

Because of the large numbers of crew needed for the voyage, I am ready now to accept applications. But first, I would be pleased to present a modified version of my program “American Pioneers Afloat” to groups so interested.

Photo courtesy & Property of:
Bela Berty and is used with permission.
The information was also supplied
by Bela Berty.

This set is NOT public domain and
is NOT to leave this site at all. It is for
my own personal use only.
Thanks.....Fiddlinsue

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