Tag: James V. Swift Medal 2023

• What the Mississippi River Means to Me

  

  I left the Mississippi as an adult, but it never left me.

  Gregg Andrews

  April 11, 2023

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  Herman T. Pott National Inland Waterways Library, James V. Swift Medal 2023, Mississippi River music, Shantyboats

• Shantyboats and Roustabouts Wins James V. Swift Medal

  

  Perhaps no one contributed more to preserving the history of life on the rivers than James V. Swift, a longtime columnist of the Waterways Journal who wrote the “Old Boat Column” for many years. As the Journal’s Vice-President and business and advertising manager, he supported a number of river organizations, and he indexed the Waterways…

  Gregg Andrews

  March 21, 2023

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  Herman T. Pott National Inland Waterways Library, James V. Swift Medal 2023, LSU Press, waterways history